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[–] [email protected] 12 points 35 minutes ago

Does that mean spez is getting banned for being a mod on r/jailbait?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lol, how is it even possible to upvote banned content? I mean, is it not deleted if banned?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Banned after you upvote it

See something that’s pro-Luigi? That’s banned content

Pro-lemmy? That’s banned content

Upvoted a post about hypothetically killing a Republican? That’s banned content

Etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago

reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider "threatening"

its already a thought crime zone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

paywall it, have bot create content, ban all humans.

reddit is the internet of things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes ago

At this point, getting banned at reddit is a badge of honor.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Basically declaring that they don't allow free speech.

"Hey, you have been liking things we disagree with and we need an echo chamber here, align with us or fuck off. Sincerely, the money hungry bitches of the internet! Also heil daddy musk!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago

hypothetically speaking, if someone blew up their office HQ, that would send a powerful message. of course, if you have the balls to do that, there are some other offices that would probably be much better targets.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Of course they don’t. They banned me 3 years ago for saying that if you have the chance, you should always punch a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

They permabanned two of my accounts during the election last year, just because I said I didn’t care when Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot. She’s a warmonger who’s called for violence against millions of innocent people. Not gonna clutch my pearls when anyone (even Trump) threatens her.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Excuse me? If someone says they want a genocide you have to wait until they take over, only then are you allowed to support violence.

I'm against violence, I think that reasonable and even somewhat unreasonable people should be talked with. But if someone says "fuck you I will kill you" you should have the right to punch them, it is the same as self defence, because next time they will kill you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Basically declaring that they don’t allow free speech.

It's a privately owned platform. You never have an assurance of free speech on any of those, and on Reddit, the rot set in years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There is a big jump from "we are a private company and we have internal rules" to "we are a private company and our internal rules that directly go against human rights"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Based on what I read in the posted article, everyone is making a big leap here. Of course I expect you all to be right in the end based on Reddit being a shitshow, but we don’t know what the content they are referring to is exactly.

For all we know, they are only referring to stuff like human trafficking or child porn. The statement is vague.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago

To be clear, they're talking about banning right wing people. Reddit is one of the most liberal platforms you will find.

You can't even talk economics on Reddit without being downvoted to fuck, or banned.

I am a centrist, and I routinely had posts removed and got banned from communities for saying things from actual textbooks taught currently in universities.

No one is attacking the free speech of the left unless it's radical and advocating for physical harm.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

Nobody elected the mods or the admins. And the management has shown itself to be, at least, MAGA-adjacent.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I once got banned for "vote brigading" on Reddit because I upvoted a crosspost that was deleted later, so this comes as no surprise. They have been monitoring upvotes and downvotes since forever.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Wtf is “vote brigading”?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

When one community goes in mass to affect the votes in another. E.g someone is doing a poll/vote intended to be private or limited to a certain group/community, and you link that to from somewhere else with the hope, or sometimes direct instructions to go vote on it in a certain way.

That's why reddit has cross-posts and the np (no participation, disables voting in the linked content) subdomain that try to keep the votes separated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 58 minutes ago

When one community goes in mass

Slightly off-topic, but it’s en masse, not “in mass”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think i ever came across cross posted content where up/down voting was not allowed 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If you cross-post, that sub gets it's own up/downvote count. You would have to open the link and go to the original post to see and affect them, so it already discourages brigading.

NP is when I link you directly to somewhere, e.g https://np.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1j4scuu/barbie_doll/ won't have voting even if you are logged in, not on the post or the comments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah what the heck is that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Agreeing with something the owners don't like.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago

I got perma banned after i joined NAFO as a mod 2 bannes for petty reasons and then the third and final ban. Always waited for the other bans to time out

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote calls for a violent revolution against the billionaire class and the fascist neo feudalist militarized police state enforced wage slavery and rent till death economics they have created to benefit their endless growth driven profits while ignoring upvotes of content that praise violence against leftists, women and other marginalized leftist aligning groups and ideologies

There, FTFY

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

after what they saw with luigi, and trying to suppress all news about it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They are desperay obvious and its cringe. They were in full blast damage control censorship mode even before december 4th. I was VPN banned last summer just for saying that occupied indigenous people have a right to resist occupation by any means necessary as per international law in regards to palestine and IsNoTreal. So far ive jot been able to evade the ban even with a vpn. Wall street military and prison industry profiteers have become too confident and comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They ban for literally anything probably because their Reddit moderation is handled by AI. The simple fact that many reports = certain ban regardless of behavior is reason enough not to be in that cesspool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

their Reddit moderation is handled by AI

They also have a number of fascist mods who abuse their authority to arbitrarily ban anyone saying something they don't like.

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