Salaam.
I was given a warning for posting a coronvirus relevant link from *** to the coronavirus thread.
It said something like “this website has profanity, haram music, nudity, etc and has no educational value.”
The problem is every reason listed also applies to YouTube, which has music, women teaching breastfeeding, etc.
Literally every reason given applies to YouTube and Twitter. The music videos with women dancing. All sorts of haram.
Yet, *** gets singled out.
1) it is a website that users generate the content. Many times, when no other source will publish something, world star does. It is where the Chinese nurses got to speak to the world to get around the China government censorship.
In fact, the first link I posted from there had some very graphic photography of whole neighbourhoods getting doused with sanitiser and a Chinese nurse speaking out the world needs to see. You would not see that video on cnn.
2) It is a place to get news. I did not even see the Iranian official sweating profusely until *** showed it. Perhaps people here want to hide any video making Iran look bad. Ie, censorship.
3) I don’t like censorship. This is something I would expect from Chinese government or other authoritarians. As Shia, we see firsthand the destruction caused by silencing people.
4) moreover, I did not post links to any nudity or haram videos. I don’t even click on those videos. By this logic, no YouTube or twitter links can be posted here bc those sites have nudity, haram, music etc.
the language of the warning I got applies to YouTube links also. Stay consistent. Otherwise, we all know the dictionary definition of hypocrite.
5) I am being persecuted. I did not expect this from my fellow Shia.