It's funny that this post doesn't mention some of the worst offenders in this area. There are large subreddits where it's explicitly against the rules to debate

It's funny that this post doesn't mention some of the worst offenders in this area. There are large subreddits where it's explicitly against the rules to debate the validity of topics with participants, and many others where you may find yourself automatically banned by a bot if your post history shows you have posted in certain other communities. The reality of Reddit is that a handful of semi-anonymous Internet users control the news flow to millions of individuals. Even when this isn't the case, the best you can hope for is that it is instead controlled by upvotes, bots, admins, and algorithms, which is not much better. The comparison to policing is a bit lacking, as censorship is a different topic, and obviously officers don't 'kill people at random', regardless of the justification (or lack thereof) of a case, randomness is not the correct word to use here. Although this post has a good general point, it could use a lot more evidence and some numbers to better illustrate how bad the situation really is.