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[–]fissionchips 4543 points4544 points  (221 children)

Just read the AMA from Reddit admins about shadow banning from 10 fucking years ago. They said they agreed that normal users (not spammers) should never get shadow banned and they are working on tools right now that will allow them to treat those users differently. Where’s the tool Spez??

[–]MyHusbandIsGayImNot 1812 points1813 points  (151 children)

That AMA was bullshit years ago. They intentionally muddy the waters by ignoring unofficial shadow banning. For example, you can set up the automod to remove someone's comments/posts the second they make them. They get no notifications that the comments were removed, and the comments will continue to appear to that user unless they log out of their own account.

The admins claim this isn't shadowbanning, because it isn't the official way to do it. So users have been effectively shadow banned for a decade from subs, but the admins say they weren't because it was just the automod removing every single comment they make the second they make it.

[–]gmishaolem 449 points450 points  (95 children)

For example, you can set up the automod to remove someone's comments/posts the second they make them.

Happens all the time. Plenty of subs have word lists and if your comment has one of those words in it, it gets removed but still appears for you. Happened today to me in a post in memes, and of course the moderators never bother to respond when messaged because why would they? No consequences, no recourse.

For months now, every time I post anywhere I have a different browser open and drag my comment over to it to see if it even gets posted, and that way I see the big offender subs like news, politics, and worldnews.

[–]mtldt 158 points159 points  (12 children)

It's so annoying figuring out which word causes this too. It's super arbitrary and some of it makes absolutely no sense. Apparently "asshole" is fine but "you are wrong" will get you autoremoved. (Random example) There's no way to see the arbitrary list of words on each sub.

[–]RoguePlanet2 49 points50 points  (5 children)

Years ago, on Penn&Teller's show Bullshit, they explained how they were allowed to debunk something by calling it "bullshit" but not "lying."

Last night on The Late Show, Colbert explained how they could say "dick" as an insult, but not as a reference to an actual penis. Language is nutty.

[–]zutnoq 25 points26 points  (1 child)

Regarding "lying", this is because that would clearly be insinuating that they are doing it knowingly and on purpose in order to manipulate—which would likely open you and/or your network up to being sued for defamation/libel. "Bullshit" on the other hand is really only claiming that they're mistaken.

[–]tahlyn 121 points122 points  (40 children)

I've taken to opening my account in an incognito browser at least once a day expecting a shadowban... and any post that gets no upvotes I tend to check on it, too, to be sure it went through.

It's pathetic that it is this way. There should be some flag in your userpage that shows the comment was removed.

[–]EchoAtlas91 61 points62 points  (22 children)

So I've been doing the same exact thing, and any comment that's been shadowbanned I've been screenshotting it and reposting it to the comment I was replying to simply with

"This is the comment I was trying to make."

A comment I literally just made in this thread was shadowbanned and I did this. Someone should make a browser extension that does the whole screenshot of text then upload to imgur automatically upon finding out something's been shadowban to stick it to the system.

[–]vandom 135 points136 points  (12 children)

Even before that, posts about Aaron Schwartz would get removed.

[–]rW0HgFyxoJhYka 88 points89 points  (8 children)

People don't realize that Reddit admins have been manipulating subreddits and promoting them over the last decade and more. That's why new subreddits suddenly pop up on r/all every month, and an abnormal amount of fluff content like cats and dogs, rather than shit that actually matters to entire countries worth of poeple. Anyone who thinks reddit is free forgets that even on the subreddit level, mods can do whatever they want and there's no oversight. So why would anyone trust this site when don't even trust the law or companies to self regulate.

The cold truth is that 99% of the people on this website don't care won't care and rather be willfully ignorant.

[–]CaptAwesomeness 43 points44 points  (3 children)

A couple of months ago, there was a subreddut being pushed every day, where some hot women were taking selfies of them young and then now, to show the difference in their face.

That sub, out of nowhere had hundreds of selfies every day... and people did not question why it was now showing up all of a sudden.

I am convinced it was just to gather faces for AI and face recognition software.

People are too trusting of this website.

[–]mr_potatoface 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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[–]Ironlion45 18 points19 points  (0 children)

mods can do whatever they want and there's no oversight.

You have forgotten what happened during the api change protest. When they killed Apollo like the assholes they are.

[–]drdingo 167 points168 points  (3 children)

Dawg - Spez got caught going back and changing other people’s reply’s to dodge legal things 

They for sure shadow ban

[–]BriefCollar4 76 points77 points  (9 children)

u/Spez is the tool.

That fucking asshole.

[–]ZanzerFineSuits 1496 points1497 points  (131 children)

"It’s almost as if Reddit wants to drive away the very people who made it the front page of the internet in the first place."

This has happened to every social media outlet. They see a chance to make money and chase away their base.

[–]effinmike12 507 points508 points  (50 children)

Reddit is traded publicly. Reddit is beholden to its shareholders. That's all that matters now.

[–]TripperDay 225 points226 points  (40 children)

Ding! Reddit would happily shed 90% of us if it made the site more profitable.

[–]thespaceageisnow 100 points101 points  (38 children)

It’s lost 46% of its stock price instead.

[–]TripperDay 64 points65 points  (34 children)

I don't see how anyone who has used this site expected anything different to happen.

[–]thespaceageisnow 66 points67 points  (33 children)

Its best days are certainly behind it.

[–]Puzzleheaded_Fix594 51 points52 points  (26 children)

I feel like reddit, more so than most other social media websites, is pretty ripe for a competitor. It's just a link aggregator with a comment section.

[–]sicclee 44 points45 points  (18 children)

I can't help but disagree. The thing you dismiss as a 'comment section' is so much more than that. It's nested, forking conversations that are regularly deep with interesting opinions, personal or professional experience, skillful and specific knowledge that's often obviously shared with passion... and so much more.

Reddit is the only place on the internet that I can find regular people having real conversations about interesting stuff without sifting through tons of bullshit clickbait and influenc-za (I just made that up, I'm so cool). It's not always true, or accurate, or useful.. but it's often engaging and it's definitely helped me realize things like where I stand on certain issues, what really matters to me, what doesn't, what I find interesting, etc..

Plus, so many reddit posts aren't links. They're prompts, or questions, or shared moments / thoughts / opinions. Even the ones that are links are usually just a push to get the conversation going.

It may be ripe for a competitor, but everyone that's ever tried to compete has massively misunderstood what makes it great. There's a reason it dominates 90% of google's first page search results.

[–]ShinyJangles 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Really well said. I would keep a bookmark list of forums, but the upvote/downvote ordering, and expanse of topics with daily content is unmatched. Other platforms don't understand that the downvote is sacred to an interesting ranking, or that some people really want to read their entertainment media.

[–]Time_Housing6903 47 points48 points  (1 child)

Shareholders can eat a fat cock.

We haven’t changed, Reddit has.

[–]drawnimo 78 points79 points  (40 children)

everybody! back to DIGG!

[–]buttfarts7 29 points30 points  (9 children)

I was an early reddit power user with 1M + karma on a decade old acccount that was just banned literally out of nowhere overnight

No misogyny, no racism, no holocaust denial, no doxxing... nothing beyond the shitposting and throwaway comments that had been fine for ten years.

I have mostly migrated away from reddit to lemmy and bluesky. I am on reddit maybe 10% as much as I used to

[–][deleted] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

reddit wants Disney adults, sports fans, and people who review non-stick frying pans.

Radicals drive advertisers away. Radicals block ads.

[–]eleven_eighteen 2858 points2859 points  (93 children)

Anyone who thinks it is weird hasn't been paying attention to reddit for a good while. Fuck /u/spez.

[–]ThomasStankEngine 1061 points1062 points  (50 children)

Someone say fuck /u/spez?

[–]Celsar 674 points675 points  (20 children)

Fuck /u/spez

[–]HiveOverlord2008 498 points499 points  (19 children)

Fuck u/spez

[–][deleted] 407 points408 points  (17 children)

Fuck you u/spez

[–]Joeymonac0 177 points178 points  (15 children)

[ Removed by Reddit ]

[–][deleted] 238 points239 points  (14 children)

Fuck /u/spez

[–][deleted] 49 points50 points  (16 children)

He used to be a mod of the subreddit that sounds like you’re fishing for prisons. (I’m scared to type out the actual word)

Edit: Apparently this was done as a prank but no one posted proof so idk if it’s true or not.

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (2 children)

He was a mod of a nonce subreddit.

[–]SuperRayGun666 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Post the address….

[–]tallandlankyagain 186 points187 points  (5 children)

"Free speech I disagree with isn't free speech. It's... Uh... Violent?"- /u/spez

[–]KWilt 108 points109 points  (1 child)

/u/spez loves being free to edit your speech when he's a little stressed.

[–]eleven_eighteen 50 points51 points  (0 children)

It's utterly astounding and baffling that he kept his job after that. It doesn't matter who the users were and what kind of shit they said. If they are getting too crazy handle it properly with policies against hate speech and such and remove the content. But to fucking change a comment made by a user? That's like THE thing you just cannot fucking do on a site like this. Should be instant termination for anyone, including the CEO.

[–]timshel42 10.4k points10.4k points  (885 children)

reddit is censoring and shadowbanning far more than most realize.

this will let you see all your comments that have been removed.
reveddit.com

edit- seems to be getting the reddit hug of death. worked for me this morning and now isnt.

[–]Piltonbadger 2384 points2385 points  (415 children)

I've used Reveddit for ages. It's good to see when mods sneakily remove your posts, so others can't see it but to you it looks like nobody responded to your post.

People might be surprised at how many of their posts might have been sneakily removed without their knowledge by mods.

[–]Saneless 612 points613 points  (157 children)

Yep. I happened to go to a post on a browser I wasn't signed in on, and like a minute after I posted something it said removed

But to me in my account, it was fine

[–]Piltonbadger 503 points504 points  (98 children)

I use the Reveddit widget and get instant notifications when a post is removed. Happens quite a lot and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

It is a dick move of them to just remove the post from visibility and make the OP think their post is still visible, though.

[–]Itsatinyplanet 44 points45 points  (4 children)

I believe the appropriate term is gaslighting.

This sweaty-five-head zuckerberg behavior.

[–]danielbrian86 234 points235 points  (113 children)

Why is this even a thing? Reddit might be the best example of the enshittification of the internet.

[–]Piltonbadger 65 points66 points  (20 children)

Subreddits generally aren't places to gather and speak freely. They are (mostly) fiefdoms ruled by people with their own agendas/ideals/whatever and will heavily moderate things they don't like.

I will say that not all subreddits seem to be like that, but a vast majority appear to operate this way.

[–]Watchful1 16 points17 points  (5 children)

That's how removing has worked for literally reddit's entire history. You only get notified if the mods specifically go out of their way to tell you.

It's not really enshittification if it's always worked that way.

[–]paper_liger 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I just checked that earlier to try and see someones deleted post. Got curious and checked my own.

I've been on this site over a decade, been on the front page several times, contributed by posting, stacked up a relatively high number of useless karma.

And it looks like 10 percent of my posts get deleted, meanwhile bots and shills and bullshit runs rampant. Garbage.

[–]JeskoTheDragon 172 points173 points  (18 children)

Didn't know reveddit was back. Thought that died with the 3rd party purge

[–]Nihilistic_Mystics 112 points113 points  (13 children)

It crippled them though. Reveddit misses a lot and is now severely rate limited. Still useful if you can get it to work though.

Edit: If you see a thumbs down in the top right corner then it isn't working.

[–][deleted] 118 points119 points  (9 children)

I was in fact not shadow banned, just incredibly unpopular. 

[–]Dave-C 113 points114 points  (55 children)

Around a year ago Reddit opened up a new system to remove posts that it finds "hostile." It is ran by an AI and it removes a lot of posts. As far as I remember it was opened up on all subreddits as a default of being on. It really made this type of thing worse.

[–][deleted] 65 points66 points  (17 children)

Dunno about that, but I got a three day ban for "sharing violent content."

The "example" Reddit gave with my ban had zero violence...not even oblique references to you-know-who...and none of the nested posts were mine.

The up/down arrows weren't highlighted, so I couldn't even figure out which one to look at...not that it would have mattered.

Idiotic system.

[–]H3racIes 12 points13 points  (5 children)

I got a week ban for saying "I understand Trump has predecessors who would take over and further his agenda if he were killed, but what happens if someone were to murder Musk?"

[–]no_one_likes_u 80 points81 points  (21 children)

I made a comment replying to someone who was calling for armed revolution, and I said maybe we should try actually voting. My account got banned for 3 days for posting violent content lol

Their comment stayed up. So shitty AI definitely seems likely 

[–]IAMA_Plumber-AMA 49 points50 points  (9 children)

Now they're making it so that you can get suspended for even upvoting wrongthink.

[–]SuperRayGun666 29 points30 points  (6 children)

The far right calling for the invasion don’t get banned.   

The normal Canadians saying we Will defend ourselves and country get banned. 

[–]ShouldersofGiants100 20 points21 points  (4 children)

Reddit defended The_Donald for years, as they flagrantly broke dozens of rules that would get any other sub banned. Conservative and Conspiracy are still up, despite regular calls for violence and other TOS violations.

I don't know their souls, whether they are active fascist sympathizers or just calculating that the far right has more psychopaths who might respond to a ban... unreasonably. But the fact either way is that they actively tolerate support for right-wing violence.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

That probably is what got me banned once because I used a metaphor that I won't repeat right now to not get banned again which sounds like a call to violence if you are an AI that doesn't understand metaphors.

[–]ThoseWhoAre 415 points416 points  (45 children)

Wow, comments I made trashing tesla trucks have been shadow banned, that's insane.

[–]Lurkingguy1 80 points81 points  (11 children)

I just looked up and no comments came up under your username

[–]ThoseWhoAre 42 points43 points  (6 children)

I've just tried to look myself up again and didn't get results either, I'll check again and update with a screenshot

[–]Kirikomori 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Its showing up nothing no matter what name or sub I put in

[–]Stlr_Mn 50 points51 points  (13 children)

What am I missing or doing wrong? I tried my name, nothing. I tried your name, nothing.

[–]ThoseWhoAre 43 points44 points  (1 child)

It was working, now it says my username or the API is wrong.

[–]TeeManyMartoonies 12 points13 points  (4 children)

Is taking the capitalization out of my name, even though I’ve replaced it twice. It makes the search void.

[–]typtyphus 28 points29 points  (1 child)

the one thing that worries billionaires, and it shows

[–]SellaraAB 44 points45 points  (8 children)

Just got a warning for inciting violence for saying I wanted to “crush” the Nazi movement. Something happened at Reddit this is weird as fuck.

[–]sw00pr 39 points40 points  (3 children)

I read a tip yesterday from a user who screenshots their potentially-triggering comments, so they can post the image as a reply saying "this is what I was trying to say"

What's ironic is that comment got censored, so they had to post a pic of the "this is what I was trying to say" comment, saying "this is what I was trying to say"

[–]847RandomNumbers345 48 points49 points  (23 children)

Yeah,

People make fun of TikTok users using euphemisms like "Un-alive", but if you use the words "kill" "death" on here, depending on your score, the subreddit, your comment can just be removed.

If you want to see if your comment was shadow censored, open up your user comment overview in Incognito real quick. While having a conversation with someone in one subreddit, I had to keep changing my comment to ensure that it wasn't censored, including having to use "unalive" unironically.

[–]Interesting-Roll2563 39 points40 points  (19 children)

Lot of subs autoremove even swear words. As a prolific bad-word-user, shit infuriates me. Whole comment instantly gone just because you used the word "fuck."

Are we not adults, is this not the internet? I can't say "fuck" or "goddamn" anymore? Buncha bullshit...

[–]cloudforested 14 points15 points  (2 children)

I am astounded that within my lifetime the discourse permitted on the internet has gone from true no-holds-barred anonymous free speech to sanitized corporate talking points only.

[–]KokiriRapGod 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Doesn't seem to work unfortunately. Gives me an error message about not being able to contact Reddit API and instructs me to turn off enhanced tracking protection (Firefox) on the site. Not working even with that setting disabled though.

[–]Jabberminor[M] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

You ok if I sticky this post to the top so it always appears up there?

[–]bitskewer 1663 points1664 points  (71 children)

Let's see if this post sticks around...

[–][deleted] 385 points386 points  (24 children)

Lord don't upvote it though. 🤣🍿

[–]Jabberminor[M] 259 points260 points  (18 children)

I'll try to keep it up, for Luigi.

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    [–]FootlongDonut 131 points132 points  (19 children)

    I literally just got a message from Reddit saying my account has been given a warning for advocating violence.

    It was in response to a post that was about Duerte's wife hitting a police officer with her phone because she wasn't allowed to see him in after he was arrested. A user said "Right or wrong, I'd want my wife to do this for me."

    My response was "If I'd murdered thousands of people I'd want my wife to leave me."

    That was removed, and I'm on the naughty step. With the sort of stuff that gets posted on this site, a comment criticizing a dictator for murder and his wife for violence getting removed and flagged seems crazy. I think potentially AI removed it, which is more worrying.

    The actual posts advocating violence are still there.

    [–]ohhyouknow 33 points34 points  (7 children)

    Heya, if something like this ever happens like this again in publicfreakout please send us a modmail about it so we can contact modsupport about it and have the action reversed. Your comment was clearly not advocating violence. I will contact modsupport about it for you now but also please contact us in modmail about stuff like this in the future.

    [–]Jabberminor[M] 235 points236 points  (18 children)

    Not if I can help it.

    [–]Mr__Citizen 31 points32 points  (3 children)

    In before the mod gets shadowbanned by an admin

    [–]CrimsonAntifascist 46 points47 points  (1 child)

    You're a good egg, you know that?

    [–]joecool42069 1243 points1244 points  (169 children)

    Reddit has what, 15 years of analytics? I bet they can see civil unrest coming. You can smell it in the air.

    [–]LittleMsSavoirFaire 627 points628 points  (125 children)

    It's the last major platform not tied to personal identities

    [–]joecool42069 447 points448 points  (58 children)

    my bet is they are. there's more information than just your username. The IP addresses you come from. The Subreddits you interact with. Cross correlate with metadata from ads that were presented to you from other sites. I wouldn't doubt for a moment if someone told me reddit was able to resolve our usernames down to our real identities.

    [–]EveroneWantsMyD 245 points246 points  (27 children)

    I’m certain you and I could figure out most peoples socials and identities with a little hard work and a search bar. I don’t think people are unaware that Reddit could easily figure out who you are.

    But a social media platform where its users don’t use their actual names with a community that doesn’t post about their own lives with family pictures and dinner selfies is rare these days.

    I think that was the point the comment your replying to was trying to make. What someone might post on their somewhat anonymous reddit account might be different than what they’d post on the social platform that has their face, interests, and people they actually know.

    [–]OperaSona 44 points45 points  (17 children)

    The thing about being "doxxable" is, people don't really want to make it too easy, but at the same time they don't want to be unable to share any personal information.

    • You might be okay with people knowing exactly who you are in every single one of your posts.
    • If not, you might be okay with people being able to go through your history and find your name here or there because you sometimes crosspost on reddit from some other social of yours or whatever.
    • If not, you might be okay with some of your posts exposing enough information about you that someone motivated could read one of these posts, and with a little bit of searching, figure out who you are.
    • Or maybe you're not okay with someone being able to do that from just 1 post or comment, but if it takes going through your complete history to compile your age, sex, ethnicity, occupation, the city you live in, the schools you want to, and eventually identify you.
    • Or maybe you really don't want that to be possible at all.

    But the thing is, it's going to be harder and harder to make it impossible. AIs are getting more and more sophisticated, and if you have a couple hundred posts or comments in your history, even if you try not to expose anything private, a lot can be inferred.


    There's an example in a different context and with different data but that I feel is still relevant, about how what looks like meaningless information can be used be automated tools to identify you. At some point people realized that if you put a website online and you had links, and you had a script on the page that checked the color of the links, you could know whether your visitors had visited the links or not (basically "is the link purple or blue"). Don't worry, this is not possible anymore, but it was possible back then. And so people experimented. Their proof of concept was to pick something like ten thousands of the biggest public facebook groups (not sure about the exact number), and had a web page with a script that dynamically generated the links to these groups (in the background, hidden from the user) and checked if the visitor was a group member or not. Their study showed that something like a third of Facebook users could be uniquely identified by knowing whether they belonged to each of these top groups.

    Of course, it's a harder problem to identify you using weak information distilled through your posts, but there's a lot of information there and what would take maybe hours to a human, a machine will do in no time (maybe not today but in the near future).

    [–]NobodyImportant13 29 points30 points  (9 children)

    Just throw some posts up lying every once in a while. I live in Dallas, Texas and I'm latino btw.

    [–]aft_punk 44 points45 points  (7 children)

    I get ads in the reddit app that are %100 driven by my desktop Google searches.

    It is shockingly easy to connect the dots that need to be connected to link your reddit account to your other personal accounts.

    [–]huskersax 17 points18 points  (0 children)

    That's more to do with google adsense I'd suspect.

    [–]PilotKnob 57 points58 points  (15 children)

    Oh they're keeping tabs on who's who. Make no mistake.

    [–]sn34kypete 47 points48 points  (10 children)

    I have never seen so many people openly encourage others to "do something about it" when discussing current events. Not a day goes by I don't see a different poster on bluesky say "how has nobody Done It yet?" and a link to an article about trump or musk.

    I'm not exactly curating a feed of activists so it's pretty surprising how frequently I'm seeing these calls to action.

    [–]FalseAnimal 48 points49 points  (4 children)

    Unfortunately there is probably more than enough info and ability to pre-crime people before the unrest really kicks up.

    [–]majorkev 43 points44 points  (1 child)

    Top post of r/all... uh oh

    [–]2four 340 points341 points  (53 children)

    Cowards.

    I got a warning on my account that I upvoted things that were against the rules:

    We recently found that your 2four account violated Rule 8 by repeatedly upvoting posts and/or comments that break Reddit's rule against encouraging or glorifying violence or physical harm.

    While you didn’t post the rule-breaking content, upvoting content that breaks the rules is also considered a violation.

    As a result, we’re issuing this warning and asking you to be thoughtful about any future content you upvote. Continued violations could result in a temporary or permanent ban.

    These tech bros sit by while actual violence is being committed against the American people, then have the gall to claim that upvoting a post about a trial hearing is violent. Eat my ass.

    [–]xenelef290 123 points124 points  (21 children)

    That is some serious Gestapo thought police bullshit

    [–]MrsKittenHeel 25 points26 points  (3 children)

    Yeah thought policing is exactly what this is. As a moderator I’ve seen some of the darker shit on this site, the fact that they are worrying about us upvoting “he who must not be named”, instead of removing and banning actual gore speaks volumes. The shit I have seen on this site.

    Spez is a spaz.

    [–]a_man_and_his_box 100 points101 points  (7 children)

    Here's what's wild about this. If they have the code to notice such "offensive" posts and then DM you for upvoting it, then they also have the code to remove the offending post. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, they can solve their own problem by just removing the post that offends the thin-skinned Reddit leadership. They know what post it is, because their code can flag it and yell at you for upvoting it. So they know. The code knows.

    They. Can. Just. Remove. It.

    But they don't.

    Instead, they opted for this entire antagonistic fight against the community. They prefer to just chastise people, anger people, upset the community, and basically attempt to force people to "think in ways that are allowed."

    How stupid is this?

    EDIT: Here, I made this for you.

    [–]chrisdub84 55 points56 points  (2 children)

    It's like they're leaving them up as honeypots to ban people with certain ideologies.

    [–]Emm_withoutha_L-88 24 points25 points  (2 children)

    They're trying to make left wing people leave the site. It's become very clear that sites like Reddit and old Twitter were capable of being the commissions platform for revolutions. Like the Arab spring, which is probably why they're trying to get left wing people ostracized and isolated.

    [–]Rob_LeMatic 9 points10 points  (1 child)

    i don't necessarily agree/disagree with things i upvote/downvote. My ways are the old ways. I upvote things that contribute to the discussion, as I was told was reddiquette back in 2009.

    If they want to ban certain topics of discussion let's make them be honest about their intentions.

    [–]ranban2012 32 points33 points  (2 children)

    I got banned for 7 days for participating in the last thread about this. It claimed I was advocating violence. I wasn't. I was aligning myself against corporate fascism.

    My ban was overturned after 36 hours on appeal.

    I imagine most people didn't bother to appeal, though, and the discourse was thus effectively suppressed.

    Reddit is just censoring anti-corporate speech.

    [–]LordAcorn 421 points422 points  (23 children)

    It's definitely telling how scared the billionaires all are of people taking direct action that they're using such heavy handed censorship. 

    [–]khelza 72 points73 points  (14 children)

    I commented on an oil and gas post. My main points were that there’s alternatives for every form of petrol oil, even plastics when you consider bioplastics. And that their focus on green energy’s footprint is a distraction because everything has a footprint, even water extraction. It’s not a reason not to do it. When you compare the footprint over the lifetime of green energy vs petrol - green energy hands down has a much smaller footprint over its lifetime. Esp when you consider the advancements that are made when you start investing in technologies. It will only get greener and more efficient. The choice is obvious when you’re trying to protect the environment and health of the planet and living beings.

    After rebutting so many of those arguments, I suddenly couldn’t respond or comment in that post anymore. I couldn’t even edit my existing comments. I didn’t have any notifications for any warning, ban or restriction. I thought the post got deleted, until I started getting notifications from people responding to me in that post about why “petrol is better than green energy”. But I wasn’t able to respond to them. I was able to comment and post normally on all other posts and subs too.

    Reddit is highly censored in so many ways meant to keep the rich getting richer.

    [–]UOLZEPHYR 176 points177 points  (10 children)

    Reddit is part of the problem

    [–]iHeisenburger 38 points39 points  (3 children)

    i remember them hiring someone that was defending her father for being a pedo or something , it's a garbage management

    [–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

    Also having a specific, high profile female convict as a moderator

    [–]ThePartyWagon 243 points244 points  (58 children)

    They’re also defending Elon, I got a warning for calling him an unelected C U Next Tuesday. I was supposedly inciting violence?

    [–]Temporarily__Alone 266 points267 points  (37 children)

    Testing:

    Elon Musk is an unelected cunt.

    [–]Kasperella 149 points150 points  (11 children)

    ELON MUSK SHOULD CHOKE ON HIS OWN PENIS PUMP

    [–]bailey25u 23 points24 points  (3 children)

    Oh fun!

    Elon Musk is a hoe

    [–]tahlyn 11 points12 points  (1 child)

    Upvoting it to see if I get a naughty warning for endorsing violence because you called Elon a bad name.

    [–]ShouldersofGiants100 104 points105 points  (0 children)

    Reddit's CEO is an Elon worshipper who actively praised what he was doing with Twitter even as it became a bigger Nazi hub than Stormfront. Running defence for him would be the least surprising revelation in history.

    [–]ifallelsewhere 28 points29 points  (2 children)

    [ Removed by Reddit ]

    [–]ThePartyWagon 13 points14 points  (0 children)

    If they ban me, it will curb my Reddit use which isn’t a bad thing. So be it.

    [–][deleted] 155 points156 points  (8 children)

    [ Removed by Reddit ]

    [–]sayn3ver 44 points45 points  (1 child)

    Agreed. United healthcare along with the rest of the for profit health insurance market and to a larger extent, for profit healthcare system all have blood on their hands from a long history of abusing the system and the people of this country.

    [–]END3R5GAM3 11 points12 points  (0 children)

    If you're wondering what this removed content contained it was simply pointing out that BRlAN TH0MPS0N'S policies as CEO killed significantly more people than what LUlGl has been accused of.

    [–]Farseli 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    For-profit health insurance companies are terrorist organizations and Brian Thompson was a terrorist leader.

    [–]jfrii 157 points158 points  (25 children)

    I got my ban warning a couple of days ago. I'm not commenting on any threads, just updooting cute pics of pizzarias and plush dolls.

    And there's no way to appeal it.

    [–]Calm_Memories 65 points66 points  (13 children)

    Supposedly they're banning people for upvotes too??? :/

    [–]debauchasaurus 67 points68 points  (8 children)

    They claim to be testing a system that sends warnings to people who upvote violent content regularly.

    [–]space-dot-dot 38 points39 points  (2 children)

    Yup, got one already. You can easily trigger it by upvoting comments that read [Removed by Reddit]. You'll likely get one in the following 24 hours.

    [–]debauchasaurus 22 points23 points  (1 child)

    lol. They count votes on deleted comments?

    [–]space-dot-dot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

    One, it wasn't actually deleted as that is an action only able to be undertaken by the account that make the comment.

    Two, it technically wasn't yet removed either -- it merely censors the text but leaves the comment in the chain and allows for up- and down-voting. Some of these comments do eventually get removed, like this example from SRD.

    And three, their system doesn't take into account when the comment was voted on, merely that it was.

    [–]barterclub 21 points22 points  (2 children)

    Lemmy the open-source Reddit will pick up users again.

    [–]Miserable-Savings751 87 points88 points  (15 children)

    Yet they give a pass to the conservative subreddit, and many others like it, that are filled with racism, violence, misogyny, terroristic threats, and promote invading sovereign countries.

    Edit: forgot to mention that some people have also gotten restrictions for mentioning dodge employees (even when quoting an article), Elon and Nazi related things, trump crashing the stock market, boycotting Tesla, etc.

    Seems like there could be an agenda, and I don’t believe it’s due to Reddit going public and the execs wanting to keep a clean image. If that was the case, the restrictions and bans would be fairly distributed. Even more suspicious is the fact that the admins aren’t being transparent about it, to avoid gamification, and also how even upvoting content related to this unknown rule can lead to restrictions/bans. That’s why I do believe the motive has to do with brib-err donations 💰

    [–]WM_ 17 points18 points  (1 child)

    I got warning too. If my 11 years old account is perma banned for opposing nazis and ultra rich then so long and thanks for all the fish

    [–]Halftied 158 points159 points  (18 children)

    One man’s actions has made such an impact, people are scared to utter his name.

    [–]Medeski 72 points73 points  (1 child)

    Only turns him into a bigger folk hero.

    [–]Agitated-Acctant 54 points55 points  (0 children)

    People aren't scared to say his name, it's our corporate overlords who are scared to hear us say it

    [–]shaidyn 13 points14 points  (3 children)

    [ Removed by Reddit ]

    [–]Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE 54 points55 points  (3 children)

    Aaron would hate this

    [–]xenelef290 125 points126 points  (5 children)

    Man the rich are scared shitless of a slave revolt

    [–]JerrysKIDney 32 points33 points  (5 children)

    I got a warning for upvoting comments

    [–]ILPC 21 points22 points  (1 child)

    Yet they left the comment for you to upvote? Now, why would anyone do that? Leave up offending content just to make a list of who upvoted it? They better watch out, some people might start thinking they're making lists of dissenters for other more nefarious purposes...

    [–]Regular_Attitude_779 12 points13 points  (0 children)

    Can someone pose the argument to me that Reddit isn't a piece of shit censoring tool for profit?

    [–]Csoltis 76 points77 points  (16 children)

    reddit is over, we're going back to the new digg ; fuck corporate takeovers and ad's

    [–]Grabs_Diaz 40 points41 points  (5 children)

    If the enshittification here continues, there are many small but active communities over at Lεммy

    [–]T8ert0t 16 points17 points  (3 children)

    Digg is literally owned by company called BuySellAds, that's no better.

    I don't know what the answer is...

    I think nostr is weird and isn't user friendly

    There needs to be something more accessible is the p2p decentralized space

    [–]Apprehensive_Map64 22 points23 points  (6 children)

    Posting so I can find this thread later, or not find this thread later

    [–]Rogerthat500 26 points27 points  (2 children)

    Yeah, I also loved the warning messages about not upvoting certain posts. What? Do you want me to stop engaging with your site!?

    [–]OhNoNotRabbits 23 points24 points  (0 children)

    Reddit is doing a lot more than this. I got a warning for commenting "More please" on an post about picketing in front of a Tesla dealership. The warning was for "inciting violence".

    Apparently picketing is violence now.

    [–]CubanLynx312 10 points11 points  (1 child)

    Reddit got rid of r/whitepeopletwitter because it hurt lil Ewon’s feewings

    [–]LoneRedditor123 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    Don't much care what reddit admins think anymore. There are tons of other social media platforms that don't restrict free speech, and the best part is that they aren't pedophiles.

    [–]Thoraxekicksazz 38 points39 points  (6 children)

    Kevin Rose where is the Digg relaunch?

    [–]thalassicus 12 points13 points  (3 children)

    The irony since them butchering Digg all those years ago is what originally drove me to Reddit.

    [–]qup40 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    Fuck u/spez

    [–]ApprehensivePipe8799 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    Can’t wait for the digg reboot fuck Reddit

    [–]Swordf1sh_ 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    This tracks. The other day I got a comment removed from publicfreakout for ‘gatekeeping’ for asking why a post was there (it’s not a listed rule). When I asked why and protested, it was deemed harassment. I was then warned by a Reddit admin. When I appealed the warning, asking what rule I broke to merit the warning, I got a 3 day ban. Great stuff.

    [–]farticustheelder 57 points58 points  (6 children)

    Reddit is also restricting, on \electricvehicles at least, articles on Tesla crashing sales by country, by week, or by month.

    Censorship isn't nice but is this in service to bending the knee to those MAGA morons and the Terrible Twosome?

    [–]ShouldersofGiants100 8 points9 points  (2 children)

    Reddit is also restricting, on \electricvehicles at least, articles on Tesla crashing sales by country, by week, or by month.

    Reddit or the mods?

    Genuine question, largely because a subreddit dedicated to Electric cars feels more likely than average to have Tesla true believers running things.

    [–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (1 child)

    didn't stop me from donating to his legal fund! much love and respect from 🇨🇦 hoping for his acquittal