They will also delete any comments that complain about AI at all, even though there is no rule against it.

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After second look, that’s not entirely true, but they definitely have a trigger finger for it and leave plenty of other “off-topic” comments.

Considering the amount of posts deleted, it should have just been locked instead of nuking comments with a negative view of AI

Here’s the thread in the screenshot:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43426671/18476015

Also, here you can see other’s seem to think this was an attempt to silence dissent (though, I don’t think that this coming from drag is a great point for it):
https://lemmy.ca/post/43313594

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Just look at this completely insane comment from an instance admin:

        • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          72·
          2 months ago

          now those communities won’t be in their feed.

          Banning a user does not remove that community’s content from their feed.

          it’s not really productive to downvote a community’s content on principle. That’s what the block button is for.

          Definitely, provided that’s what actually happened.

          I would agree that it’s a rational response as a way to protect the community from that kind of behavior.