Relevant:

In 2014, as overcrowding persisted, a three-judge panel in California ordered the state to make eligible for parole nonviolent prisoners with only two felonies that had served half their sentences. Harris’ lawyers argued early release would harm the prison’s labor program, which included its work program to help fight California’s wildfires. The judges rejected the argument.

Criticism against Harris resurfaced after her announcement for president last month brought heightened scrutiny. In 2014, Harris told BuzzFeed News she was “shocked” to learn about what her lawyers were arguing in court.

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/936121/kamala-harris-office-sought-to-keep-inmates-locked-up-so-that-california-could-use-them-for-cheap-labor/

Look, that's the entire reason I disliked her as VP and as a candidate.

But the words you used, the way you used them do not accurately represent the facts of the matter.

So, yeah, it's misinformation. When someone bends facts, that's exactly what it is.

Hyperbole being presented as fact is just another form of misinformation.

Since the only action taken was removal of the comment, I can't see any power tripping, just a difference of opinion about the precise definition of what makes up misinformation.

I can't fully say YDI in this case, because you clearly weren't acting in bad faith to break a rule.

But it also isn't a clueless mod either.

It's somewhere in between those two. The comment being removed was a justifiable action. If they'd done anything at all beyond that, it would have been over the line, but they didn't.

i thought pre-emptively putting sources in when arguing with libs would at least shield me from getting my comments deleted over false accusations of disinfo but it doesn't. Not even the libbiest most mainstream sources can protect you, they cannot deal with their cognitive dissonance and so must completely mute one side.

The "political" mods of lemmy.world always call inconvenient facts, "misinformation". They're trying their best to reproduce the liberal fact-checker culture of around a decade ago where there were liberal nannies evaluating posts for left wing thought and helping to maintain their walled garden of mainstream propaganda. There still are such nannies, of course, but they're more openly reactionary now. This kind of person thinks that if Snoped wrote an article about it, that's all there is to it.

Selectively incurious and intellectually lazy, the real impetus behind this form of liberalism is a simple contradiction: their entire political philosophy is predicated on them being a good and correct and moral person with good and correct and moral views, totally unassailable, but their beliefs are incoherent and often disagree with reality and they spend very little time actually learning and understanding the topics they weigh in on. And they're used to contrasting themselves with more openly reactionary people that are even less likely to be in alignment with reality, which really makes them feel good and correct and moral. So when presented with left thought, i.e. fsr more coherent and informed opinions, they have a little crisis in their identity and lash out, looking for some way to shore up the opinion they hold after all of five minutes of research. Failing that they just act like a big baby.

This is nn example of tone censorship... The mods politics and news subs engage in this shit to maintain favourable regime discusions. It is reddit 2.0

Just block those communities and use alternatives that's the entire point of fedi anyway.

Libs gonna lib. Their primary concern is violently maintaining power so ofc they gonna support prosecutors, prisons, slave labor, etc.

Disputing the early release of prisoners is different than 'locking people up' and people in her office advocating against early release is something that can be attributed to her because she is ultimately reponsible, but is not the same as her refusing to let them be paroled.

What you said is that she put people into jail and forced them to fight fires, which is not what happened.

What you posted was literally misinformation. YDI.

Also, fuck Kamala Harris.

PTB, everyone here defending the mods and Harris are foolish.

YDI

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#kamala-harris

Ptb.

Also What's with all the downvotes on this post?