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I left Reddit after ten years because of unnecessary censorship. I happened to comment on a photo of an 'iron lung' on the front page saying that I hadn't seen
by simonblack 5y ago
I left Reddit after ten years because of unnecessary censorship.
I happened to comment on a photo of an 'iron lung' on the front page saying that I hadn't seen one of those in over 50 years. The next day I saw that I had been banned from some obscure subreddit that I had never even heard of. Seems the subreddit with the photo on the front page was one of the pro-Trump subreddits.
When I complained about that, my complaint post was 'disappeared'.
If Reddit are going to be so up themselves, I can do without them. So I do.
The land of 'free speech' isn't, as far as social media is concerned.
- Traster 5y agoReddit is a super weird situation. If you take their policies literally, it's basically a site set up where sub-reddits are pure dictatorships. So in some ways it's perfectly pro free-speech, you can always make your own sub-reddit. But in other ways it's a completely totalitarian dictatorship with all of the larger sub-reddits run by a tiny cabal of very online people. There's no mechanism to appeal the decision of a sub-reddit, and since interacting with another sub-reddit is considered harassment or brigading you can't even talk about one sub-reddit on other sub-reddits.
- none_to_remain 5y agoNowadays the Reddit admins order the moderators around like unpaid employees and make the mods responsible for enforcing the sitewide rules.
- darthrupert 4y agoDoesn’t it work like that in capitalistic democracy too? The nation is formed as a liberal democracy, but it specifically allows “subnations”, i.e. corporations, to be run with much more freedom. Almost all of them are run in a very authoritarian way. Some of those corporations are comparable to small nations in size and wealth.