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  • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldtoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Moderation conflict involving c/veganEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The animal abuse alleged at the time was that there was supposedly no healthy vegan cat food.

    While the section of the rules was the same (violent content), animal abuse was a separate sentence, not the one about visual depictions:

    No visual content depicting executions, murder, suicide, dismemberment, visible innards, excessive gore, or charred bodies. No content depicting, promoting or enabling animal abuse. No erotic or otherwise suggestive media or text content featuring depictions of rape, sexual assault, or non-consensual violence. All other violent content should be tagged NSFW.

    This is the exact same paragraph we have today and we had before these changes.

    If there was no healthy vegan cat food then this would be considered content enabling animal abuse.

  • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldtoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Moderation conflict involving c/veganEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The ToS had no rules on misinformation at the time.

    it still had rules about animal abuse, which this misinformation, had it actually been misinformation, would have lead to. while the removal reason could have been more clear, the justification was still covered by our ToS.

    new rules created to back their talking points

    the additional rules provided more clarification on what we intend to achieve with them, but they would not be required. based on what we know today the removal was neither justified by the original ToS nor by the updated ones.

  • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldtoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Moderation conflict involving c/veganEnglish
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    17 days ago

    we do not consider feeding a cat vegan food as animal abuse, provided there are no health issues arising from this.

    most of the research i’ve looked at seems to point out that there are various pitfalls, e.g. just feeding a cat vegetables will result in malnutrition. having synthetic additives for this can be one way to address that problem. just because something is sold as vegan cat food that doesn’t necessarily imply that it’s healthy for the cat, as some of the articles were pointing out that some of the cheaper ones were lacking the right ingredients.

    as an example, “my cat now only gets potatoes and apples and nothing else” would be considered animal abuse.

    additionally, if moderators were to remove arguments pointing out the risks of e.g. missing nutrients in a civil discussion and leaving the other side that just argues “vegan cat food works” without any arguments as is then we would also consider this animal abuse.

    in this specific incident the conversation was certainly not civil, which is unfortunate, as this situation would likely have gone a very different way if it was.