Reddits designed to moderate its self. This has it's downfalls, but for the most part things that aren't related to a subreddit don't make it to the top unless

Reddits designed to moderate its self. This has it's downfalls, but for the most part things that aren't related to a subreddit don't make it to the top unless the users want it to. IMO Snowden and the NSA is heavily related to technology and banning those terms was one of the dumbest moves they could have made. The reason they get upvoted is because the community cares about that kind of stuff. Plus the comments in a snowden thread on r/technology actually discuss the technological aspects of it while r/politics commenters focus on other aspects. Isn't it kind of Orwellian to know your government is spying on you, yet go to the biggest tech forum on the net and no one is even talking about it?