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The censorship is not happening by the community, it is coming from the admins that are on the reddit payroll. There are some posts that are auto-deleted based

The censorship is not happening by the community, it is coming from the admins that are on the reddit payroll. There are some posts that are auto-deleted based off of keywords during some of the more turbulent times in reddit.

speeder 11y ago
Also adding to what Stefan said, the admins have been deleting subreddits too, sometimes the wrong ones (for example they deleted an Whale Watching subreddit believing it was a fat people harassment subreddit...)
- nightpool 11y ago
  Bullshyt. They deleted a Whale Watching subreddit because it got taken over by users from FPH looking for a new home. Some of the mods of that sub were FPH admins and were communicating to other users that it was a "backup sub" they could use when they got banned. As soon as the furor died down, the sub came back.
- valarauca1 11y ago
  Deleting a sub that existed purely to dehumanize people is your primary example of censorship going to far?
amyjess 11y ago
> There are some posts that are auto-deleted based off of keywords during some of the more turbulent times in reddit. You got a source for that?
- kedean 11y ago
  I don't know of any time the admins have done it, but some subreddits have been known to do it: http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-technology-banned-words/ http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-technology-banned-words/
  - amyjess 11y ago
    I was specifically asking about times the admins did it. And, for the record, I have no problems with the /r/technology mods implementing such a filter. I want to read about technology, not politics. I actually unsubscribed from /r/technology some time before the filter was put in place (it was one of the very few defaults I'd unsubbed from, actually) because I was sick of it being overrun by political content.
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knowaveragejoe 11y ago
Do you have a source? My understanding is that the "censorship" is much more varied and inconsistent than that. It's hardly what I'd call true censorship either way, since people are freely and openly discussing the very "censorship" and the content being censored elsewhere on reddit.

speeder 11y ago

Also adding to what Stefan said, the admins have been deleting subreddits too, sometimes the wrong ones (for example they deleted an Whale Watching subreddit believing it was a fat people harassment subreddit...)

nightpool 11y ago
Bullshyt. They deleted a Whale Watching subreddit because it got taken over by users from FPH looking for a new home. Some of the mods of that sub were FPH admins and were communicating to other users that it was a "backup sub" they could use when they got banned. As soon as the furor died down, the sub came back.
valarauca1 11y ago
Deleting a sub that existed purely to dehumanize people is your primary example of censorship going to far?

amyjess 11y ago

> There are some posts that are auto-deleted based off of keywords during some of the more turbulent times in reddit. You got a source for that?

kedean 11y ago
I don't know of any time the admins have done it, but some subreddits have been known to do it: http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-technology-banned-words/ http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-technology-banned-words/
- amyjess 11y ago
  I was specifically asking about times the admins did it. And, for the record, I have no problems with the /r/technology mods implementing such a filter. I want to read about technology, not politics. I actually unsubscribed from /r/technology some time before the filter was put in place (it was one of the very few defaults I'd unsubbed from, actually) because I was sick of it being overrun by political content.
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knowaveragejoe 11y ago

Do you have a source? My understanding is that the "censorship" is much more varied and inconsistent than that. It's hardly what I'd call true censorship either way, since people are freely and openly discussing the very "censorship" and the content being censored elsewhere on reddit.