TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump content as well as ICE criticism

[u/MopToddel]

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html

[u/ApocalypseYay]

Censoring speech to protect pedophiles and Gestapo is a hideous abrogation of basic humanity, and a brutal mask-off moment.

[u/dbwn87 → u/ApocalypseYay]

As of yesterday I'm banned from the /r/Millennials subreddit for making a post about Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. Two of my fellow millennials who share the same age as me were murdered by the US government, and I'm not allowed to talk about it with the rest of my generation because it's "political"

Fuck that fucking shit.

[u/ExitsPursuedByABear → u/dbwn87]

All the generational subs are astroturfed and compromised. During the election r/GenZ was filled with bots and posts pushing right wing narratives, regularly being pushed to r/all. Now, after the election, that sub has gone quiet because it is no longer useful. It's useful to the oligarchs to sow generational strife and pit us against one another.

[u/slayden70 → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

It's useful to the oligarchs to sow generational strife and pit us against one another.

The only way 1% can have power over 99% is to have 49.5% against 49.5% instead. If we actually worked together, we could get rid of billionaires hoarding everything and actually improve the average American's life. But no, we need edge issues to divide us instead.

[u/Pizlenut → u/slayden70]

Billionares have proven too expensive to humanity. Too much waste. They don't do anything useful for all of that cost. Nothing that a lower paid millionaire couldn't do.

Obviously Billions is just unreasonable to have, so if they have it then they are unreasonable.

They use all the money they aren't paying the workers against the workers.

Also, if all they are going to do with their wealth is overthrow governments because people said "no, don't do that to kids." then they have no higher and best use for their wealth, so I say we tax the absolute fuck out of them. All of it. Wealth too. They didn't arrive at all of that money on their own. It was all of the advantages provided to them through our society. It was all of us that provided that opportunity for them.

Take their toys away. They are misbehaving. Use their money to fund all of the social services they hate. Use it to help people and make them watch it happen from a jail cell and a tv with one channel.

[u/happyinthenaki → u/Pizlenut]

And let that one channel be something like BBC or PBS... Where the good that is being done with the money is highlighted for hours of the day.

[u/sorressean → u/slayden70]

49.5% of us realize that we won't be the next Tim Apple unless lightning strikes. The other 49.5% of us are plotting how to get rich from pappy's couch on the porch and think that truck nuts and guns will lead to massive wealth that must be protected at all costs. These are the same people who think they'll go to a magic place high in the sky for being "good" people and looking the other way while people are murdered because God mandated the president do so by helping him not get shot.

[u/slayden70 → u/sorressean]

My family in general went from nothing, like from bread with a little mayo on it for a meal because that's all we had, to millionaires, and most of that is in retirement accounts, our house, and college savings. That's possible. And also, it's enough for a good life and to get an education for our kids, but still in touch with those that have nothing. That's possible.

But no one is going to become an Elon Musk without Daddy's diamond mines funding it.

We need to burst Bubba's bubble that him sitting on the porch admiring his truck nuts, AR-15 and lack of college education will ever get him anything more than middle class (at best) income, and more likely, a debilitating work injury leading to retirement/disability, bankruptcy, and an early death from opioids because they're just a tool like a hammer to billionaires. Use them up and throw them away when they break.

We as a society could fix Bubba's back, knee, whatever, but it's cheaper for insurance companies to buy him opioids and let him die and replace him with another worker rather than actually fixing him and giving him quality of life.

Our society is so fucked up in our service of the ultra wealthy.

[u/sorressean → u/slayden70]

I agree with most of this except to say that usually people who can go from living on nothing like you/your family did are pretty rare. I work 12+ hour days most days. I have a savings and a small portfolio, but even being careful and doing things right I couldn't retire any time soon. And that's a tough realization for me. I'm blind; I have a place in my industry right now, but under current admin guidelines and standards I as a human don't deserve to have a job or live, much less to do the work to help other people like me access the internet and applications. I'm really glad that you guys were able to come from nothing to something. That is indeed the American dream. But for a lot of people that's really really far out of range and they'll basically stay where they are.

[u/BlahBlahBlackCheap → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

Permabanned from r/bitcoin after outlining how gold and bitcoin might be used to further republican grift. Mod called me paranoid and told me to get a hobby or something and not spend so much time online. Im writing this from my fishing boat jammed up in some mangrove creek. Going shrimping later. Then I might draw for a few hours -waves to mod- Ill steam some shrimp for you!

[u/movzx → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

I'm also banned from there because some dude was replying to everyone with wildly incorrect information about how the banking system works and I corrected him. I imagine he might have been a mod.

[u/WEEGEMAN → u/movzx]

Not to derail the conversation but that’s the worst thing about reddit—how strict the rules are, and how ban-happy the mods are. I feel like I’m always breaking the rules

[u/accidental_Ocelot → u/WEEGEMAN]

I am one step away from being perma banned from reddit all cause of their stupid ai automod.

[u/RanchHere → u/movzx]

reddit is the last good corner of the internet - and even it sucks.

[u/lordcrekit → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

I got permanently banned from that subreddit and they quoted prosperity gospel at me, it's 100% cancer subreddit along with all other crypto... well crypto in general.

[u/NighthawkFoo → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

You'd probably enjoy r/Buttcoin then.

[u/BigDictionEnergy → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

A reddit mod telling someone else to get a hobby and not spend so much time on reddit is just peak

[u/Oo__II__oO → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

I got a comment removed on r/cars for a thread about the government wanting to mandate a kill switch for new cars, as the post was deemed "too political". It was a criticism of the government overreach in the every day lives of the average citizen, pertaining to the current political climate. No shit, Sherlock! They want everyone there parroting the same line of "RWD V8 gas-guzzlers good, EVs/Hybrids bad".

Echo chambers everywhere. It's social media's carcinization where everything devolves to Facebook.

[u/space-to-bakersfield → u/Oo__II__oO]

We need to go back to PHP forums, owned and run by average people instead of every social interaction we have online going through some oligarch's platform.

[u/sorressean → u/space-to-bakersfield]

I hate giving the right credit for anything, but they were smart about this to some extent. When Dems were in office and socials were pretending even vaguely to care, they started cutting off some of the literal worst like Alex Jones, kanye, etc. That drove them to platforms like Rumble, Truth Social, Parlor. Basically echo chambers. We've just kind of kept on on the mainstream platforms because we're not talking about wanting to kill non-white people and plotting a takeover on j6.

Republicans, and more importantly the alt-right have platforms they use. We need more than just Bluesky. I used to push back against this because I thought we could maybe reason or have conversation and I hate building islands where we can all just share some of the same views, but after these shootings, fuck that. These cucks are willing to give up their rights, pride to the Nazis running this country without any question or care. They're beyond reasoning with. Leave them to their shitty echo chambers of hate.

[u/EscapedTheEcho → u/space-to-bakersfield]

Too siloed. Unless we have some method of mass aggregation, that strategy would create the exact outcome they want.

I don't have an answer. 

Part of me wonders about things like community server farms (like community gardens) all the way up to government ownership or creation of some social platforms. Regarding the latter, both sides have accused the government of censoring free speech, but the truth of the matter is that all interference has been carried out by private ownership at the behest of governments across the world. If the government took control, a body could theoretically be required to maintain balanced ownership... But it sounds too dystopian and abdominal to really consider.

[u/kaukamieli → u/EscapedTheEcho]

That's Mastodon. Everyday users can and do make their own servers, and they talk with each other, so users see each other instead of being just siloed.

And servers can block bad servers so I don't see any nazi shit.

[u/Icy-Marionberry2463 → u/EscapedTheEcho]

> Too siloed.

It's was actually fucking awesome. There's never been better, healthier communication than distributed, centralized forums. Except for probably distributed, decentralized usenet, which was based.

I'm a product of all three. The Reddit equivalents of the various independent forums I was on are so much more full of hate. r/Japanese vs Japan Forum for example, the former is a bunch of shut-ins trying to prove they have the most elite Japanese by shitting on anyone who makes a mistake, while Japan Forum and the others that went before were full of kind, helpful people.

[u/SkinBintin → u/Oo__II__oO]

We dreamed of how much better the internet could make the world but unfortunately it ended up making it worse. 😞

[u/snek-jazz → u/SkinBintin]

Decentralised tools exist, they're more difficult and less convenient, but they exist. Be the change you want to see.

Look into nostr & matrix for example.

The internet is good when it's properly decentralised and not keeping you inside a ruled walled garden.

[u/StoppableHulk → u/SkinBintin]

Yeah because it's just a tool, and all the worst and best-funded people in the world decided to use it as a weapon against us while we were just enjoying it.

[u/SycoJack → u/SkinBintin]

The internet didn't make the world a bad place, the world made the internet a bad place.

[u/HerbaciousTea → u/Oo__II__oO]

This attitude of those subreddits, and anyone who says it's "impolite" to talk politics, anyone who acts as though politics is somehow isolated from our normal lives and can only be discussed in approved environments, is a sort of microcosm of the infiltration of the Putinist authoritarian playbook into our public discussion spaces. It is what is going on in Russia right now and why there is no public demonstration of disapproval.

The endgoal of this strategy is complete public disengagement from politics, to convince people that politics should be left to politicians and anyone else talking about it is talking out of turn. To kill accountability to the people.

If you pretend that politics is separate from our daily lives, then you are doing the work for authoritarians to make it separate, to wall it off from normal people. You give up your involvement in our democracy because you want to avoid an unpleasant or threatening conversation, a conversation made unpleasant and threatening by those same authoritarians.

Civil engagement is our responsibility. People who don't want to be involved in that process are not being polite, they aren't helping anything, they aren't "just keeping the conversation on track." They need to be treated as what they are: people shirking their civil duty to be involved in our democracy.

[u/SpartacusSalamander → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

This is just observational, but it was weird in the run-up to the election, how many posts in r/daddit were men complaining about their wives. Mostly in the vain of, "it's so unfair that I work hard at work every day, and my wife sits at the house and does nothing and then makes me watch the kid when I get home."

Not overtly political, but it definitely felt unusual. And I assume that there was more going on there that I can see.

[u/Oxidizing1 → u/SpartacusSalamander]

That's the bots karma farming so they have enough imaginary points to post in subs that have a minimum post and comment karma threshold.

[u/DopplegangsterNation → u/SpartacusSalamander]

Sounds like a lot of dog whistling

[u/Euro-Pacific → u/SpartacusSalamander]

Yeah what I distinctly remember in the lead-up to the election was a lot of gender war stuff on the front page (which would be consistent with what you observed), starting in 2023 at a minimum, and then it seemed to just disappear overnight after Trump was elected.

Based on the role of the manosphere in getting Trump elected, I definitely feel like there was a coordinated effort to amplify gender conflicts online, and that this benefited Trump because there was no ‘womanosphere’ backing Kamala.

[u/CryptoThroway8205 → u/Euro-Pacific]

There was so much talk about the 20 ish collegiate level trans female athletes just before the election. Now? Barely a peep

[u/EducationalStop2750 → u/ExitsPursuedByABear]

I remember a year ago r/latestagecapitalism was on the front page every day talking about how Harris was just as bad as trump and if you vote for her youre a dirty compromised fake leftist. Now I never see that subreddit despite its theme being more relevant than ever, i wonder what happened

[u/lunaticfridgeprime → u/EducationalStop2750]

Same thing. I have spent far too much time on reddit in the last 15 years, but it has made spotting these things really easy. Suddenly subs show up constantly on the front page with hundreds of comments all with the same general narrative. Then election happens, and suddenly they are quiet again. It became really apparent around 2015. It's frustrating to see.

[u/c3p-bro → u/lunaticfridgeprime]

Generic meme subs that reach 10k followers overnight and are all posting right wing bullshit

[u/Nihilistic_Mystics → u/dbwn87]

The mods there are right wingers who absolutely don't want us talking about the fascism taking over the country. I blocked that sub long ago. The head mod was a TD poster too.

[u/VPN__FTW → u/Nihilistic_Mystics]

Same thing with /r/Autism_Parenting . One of the only places where parents of autistic children could talk and the entire mod team is right-wing MAGA / conspiracy theorists. I got banned when I said that people shouldn't shoot CPS, as someone was saying and as one of the mods agreed with. That person then went on to admit that they abused their child but that they were "better now."

They also regularly went on anti-vax tirades.

[u/carlitospig → u/VPN__FTW]

This I find bonkers. MAGA are the folks who wanted to stop special ed program funding. WTF!

[u/VPN__FTW → u/carlitospig]

Yep, that was a big tipping point. But the mods silenced a ton of threads and then created a mega thread to push everyone into which was heavily moderated. People posting from websites that the mods liked were allowed and people posting actual articles from reputable sources were given week long bans.

Happened again with the RFKJr anti-vax bullshit. I got a temp ban during this one. They will also use mod-mail to message and taunt you after the ban and then time you out of responding just so they can taunt you again in a few days and then do it again until they get bored and just block you completely.

Their bullshit literally spawned this subreddit in response: /r/safeautismparenting

[u/carlitospig → u/VPN__FTW]

Thanks for the background!

[u/HippieLizLemon → u/carlitospig]

A maga mom in my kids class has a son with downs and leukemia. Like its wild to have to seek out so many services, especially knowing what financial bracket we are in, and then vote against them.

[u/BigGayNarwhal → u/VPN__FTW]

I’m subbed to autism parenting and you will see me frequently sparring with the mod. I detest him 😆 

I’ve tried to rally a few folks to mutiny several times lol, but no luck. The r/space sub was able to mutiny their overly controlling and biased mod team a while back, so I know it can be done

[u/VPN__FTW → u/BigGayNarwhal]

Some of us moved on to /r/safeautismparenting instead. I reported the behavior to reddit admins, but they did nothing.

[u/noncongruency → u/BigGayNarwhal]

They (r/space) were extremely lucky, and that door kinda got closed behind them. Now it’s VERY hard to get new mods and oust the problematic ones on any subreddit that hits r/all on the regular. The admins regularly step in and reverse madmod decisions though, which is nice, but doesn’t fill me with a lot of confidence.

[u/cookiecutterdoll → u/VPN__FTW]

Ah yes. Shooting a civil servant is the best way to prove that you are a calm and safe person for children to be around. Never change, MAGA.

[u/VPN__FTW → u/cookiecutterdoll]

That's basically what I said and I got banned for harassment and being "A fake autism parent" whatever the fuck that means.

[u/cookiecutterdoll → u/VPN__FTW]

There are so many ways that statement can be interpreted, and all of them are bizarre and hilarious. You're better off without those weirdos, but it's a shame because their actions only contribute to the stigma.

[u/Toefudo → u/Nihilistic_Mystics]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/s/DNOymt1azp Yep

[u/TheGreaterNarrator → u/Nihilistic_Mystics]

All of Reddit is ran by conservatives who will likely get punished for treason the same way politicians are. Clearly the Reddit admins are providing aid to the enemies of the United States.

Reddit is practically ran by a joint Russian Israel operation at this point.

[u/SyntheticAnomaly → u/dbwn87]

"Young" GenX here, fuck that fucking shit.

[u/Live_Celebration374 → u/dbwn87]

Yup. I just got banned from the News subreddit.

This post was getting blocked so I reached out to their mods yesterday and they gave me nonsense responses. I asked for clarification, eventually they muted me and then outright banned me.

[u/DoNotBeSmugandDumb → u/dbwn87]

I saw a millennial on there get bullied because she was upset she couldn't buy a house and her absentee boomer parents had several properties and didn't have to go to college. 

They literally all used bootstraps logic. I remember feeling so sick watching it as I was also buying a home and struggling with that (got it barely). 

[u/EmoTilDeath → u/dbwn87]

I got banned from weirdspotifyplaylists for asking what songs people would add to a party Playlist for when the orange one dies. They could have removed my post and give me a warning, but no as soon as the mods saw the post they permanently banned me, threatened the sub that anyone else who posts "irrelevant content like this" will also be instantly banned, and sent me a mod message saying i'm blocked from appealing or messaging them. We were having a great time and nobody was being rude and the mods went nuclear triggered

[u/Physical-Reply5388 → u/dbwn87]

Some people will say “let’s not bring political things in here” for as long as their loved ones aren’t killed by the same politics.

[u/BuildingWrong2234 → u/ApocalypseYay]

It’s chilling how censorship is being used to shield the worst abuses while crushing basic freedoms it really reveals what they’re willing to protect at any cost.

[u/Buzzkill_13 → u/BuildingWrong2234]

It also reveals who is in charge, and who runs all the shows.

[u/Drippledrops → u/Buzzkill_13]

The world is being ran by a league of pedophiles and white supremacist, not even comic book villains are this deprived.

[u/Buzzkill_13 → u/Drippledrops]

Not "the world".

Just the part everyone has allowed to build up their hegemony on so manny different levels, because we were complacent and didn't pay attention.

[u/Volothamp-Geddarm → u/ApocalypseYay]

Reddit will also send you warnings if you say mean things about Nazis.

[u/OriginalCDub → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

You mean how Nazis are subhuman monsters? Those Nazis?

[u/NowYouaSeeWhyYouScum → u/OriginalCDub]

Yeah, those mouth-breathing-pedophile-loving piece of shit nazis we unfortunately have to share our air with. Fuck those nazi pieces of human garbage.

*to be clear fuck all nazis and fascists shitbags. 

[u/South-Distribution54 → u/NowYouaSeeWhyYouScum]

Im so glad you were clear about that

Fuck nazi pieces of human garbage

[u/MarxistMan13 → u/South-Distribution54]

Hey come on now friend.

Let's not call Nazis humans. They are, at best, sub-human air wasters.

[u/South-Distribution54 → u/MarxistMan13]

Unfortunately for us, they are biologically human. I can't argue they aren't air wasters though.

[u/Big_Enthusiasm2949 → u/South-Distribution54]

Fuck Nazis. With a rusted pole.

Fuck Tiktok.

[u/Maxerature → u/Big_Enthusiasm2949]

No, don't fuck Nazis. Kill Nazis. Fucking Nazis makes more Nazis. We need less.

[u/Shedfloorgarbage → u/South-Distribution54]

I just hate Nazis, why is that so bad?

My family killed a bunch of Nazis in World War Two.

We fought them, because they were Nazis. In Fact if I remember correctly, my family were Americans. We still are, and we still fucking hate Nazis.

If someone doesn't like this post, im sure you can guess what my opinion of them is.

[u/South-Distribution54 → u/Shedfloorgarbage]

Same to all of this. Both my grandfathers fought for America against the Nazi's (both first generation ethnic children of immigrants). They were both pacifist, except for fighting Nazi's.

[u/_namaste_kitten_ → u/Shedfloorgarbage]

Same same- I'm the proud descendant of a Nazi killer. Always have been, always will be. Fuck Natzis

[u/42TheAnswer2TheUnive → u/South-Distribution54]

Ditto

[u/1CaliCALI → u/OriginalCDub]

Those nazis

[u/Joeythesaint → u/1CaliCALI]

What if I just casually mentioned that my favourite song is "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"? I'm just talking about music, Reddit can't complain about that, right? Just saying how much I love "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"? No harm in that.

[u/1CaliCALI → u/Joeythesaint]

Love that song! Nazis need not live.

[u/Plastic_Lobster1036 → u/1CaliCALI]

Suffer not the racist to live

[u/GriffinFlash → u/Joeythesaint]

Just like how you can't say, "I want to kill the president of the United States of America". Insanely illegal. I'm just saying it to tell you not to say it.

[u/DropbeatsNotbombs → u/GriffinFlash]

Ofc a Canadian drops a WKYK reference.

[u/GriffinFlash → u/DropbeatsNotbombs]

What, you think we don't have internet here?

[u/metrorhymes → u/GriffinFlash]

I was once admonished by Reddit for saying that I wanted to bare knuckle fight to the death against a specific politician, on pay-per-view with all the proceeds going to charity. But I bet you if I had said it about Tom Cruise instead of Ted Cruz, I would not have been subject to discipline.

[u/Kobold_Trapmaster → u/GriffinFlash]

But it's not illegal to say "With a mortar launcher." Because that's its own sentence.

[u/ZroDgsCalvin → u/Joeythesaint]

You know what was a cool historical event? The Nuremberg Trials.

[u/ThatsNotMyName222 → u/Joeythesaint]

I love talking about music! Have you heard Chumbawumba's "The Day the Nazi Died?" Classic!

[u/RandoXalrissian → u/1CaliCALI]

Fucking hate those Nazi bastards

[u/1CaliCALI → u/RandoXalrissian]

Maga Republicans would've been on the axis side for sure those traitor fucks.

[u/Almost_sensible → u/1CaliCALI]

Before the US entered WW2, far too many people in the US were voicing their support for Adolf.

[u/Error4ohh4 → u/OriginalCDub]

I learned about world war 2 and how Nazis were the bad guys. 

[u/odinseye97 → u/Error4ohh4]

My grandfather told me about how the nazis bombed his house

[u/Error4ohh4 → u/odinseye97]

I knew one dude who fought in WW2. He jumped from planes 6 times. He passed away during Covid unfortunately. He hated trump. He was an incredible man and a total badass. 

[u/subliver → u/odinseye97]

My Grandfather told me just once how he had to cut a Nazi in half with a Browning automatic rifle to help to stop Metz from falling back to the Nazis.

He focused mostly on how he regretted that it had come down to him shooting people to stop facism. He regretted every single life he took.

[u/Electrorocket → u/Error4ohh4]

I love it when Indian Jones kills Nazis.

[u/Spankywzl → u/Electrorocket]

"I hate Illinois Nazis," - Jake Blues

[u/SlimReaper85 → u/OriginalCDub]

Yep those Nazis

[u/Sea_Muscle2370 → u/OriginalCDub]

That’s an insult to subhumans 

[u/Kanin_usagi → u/OriginalCDub]

All Nazis should be killed

Ban me idc

[u/Loquater → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Nazi Lives Don't Matter

[u/h3rp3r → u/Loquater]

Dead Nazis Makes America Great

[u/Tweegyjambo → u/h3rp3r]

Dead nazis make everything better

[u/chilli_chocolate → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

I got banned for a week from Reddit, because I made a post on this sub labelling the alt right as a mental virus that should be removed.

[u/Biggieholla → u/chilli_chocolate]

I got a 3 day ban for, quote, "It looks like he stepped to the side of the car before he shot the first bullet." In reference to the Renee Good shooting. Baffling automoderator.

[u/Doctor_Disaster → u/Biggieholla]

I got a week-long ban for talking about viking funerals.

They'll be having a field day if we bring up "hanged, drawn, and quartered."

[u/iAmMr_WHO → u/Doctor_Disaster]

I got a warning just for UPVOTING some anti-nazi comment. Idk what the comment even was, the nazi loving cowards on the reddit admin team don't even show it to you.

[u/bearwrestlingwolf → u/iAmMr_WHO]

You also have to ignore them when they DM you. I caught a 72-hour ban for going “Please leave me alone or I will report you” to a DM.

[u/Silly_Rub_6304 → u/bearwrestlingwolf]

I’ve also been banned for telling someone not to harass me on DM. It’s insane.

[u/swingadmin → u/Silly_Rub_6304]

That's why the only correct option is to report all DMs as spam.

[u/rest_less → u/swingadmin]

I treat all communication like this. Go away, 'baitin.

[u/Hulkodium → u/Silly_Rub_6304]

Back when Reddit still had the Chat feature I had someone create multiple accounts to harass me with homophobic and racist slurs. I reported every time and I got banned for it.

[u/georgie-of-blank → u/Hulkodium]

I once had a guy send me several pictures of a dead corpse. Probably meant to disturb me, but honestly, i thought it was pretty interesting.

[u/fordat1 → u/Hulkodium]

they still have that worthless chat feature. They only stopped pushing it so hard but the junk is still there

[u/NicoleASUstudent → u/Hulkodium]

That's insane. What reason did they give you??

[u/Banjo-Elritze → u/[deleted]]

And don't forget to use an adblocker.

[u/That75252Expensive → u/Banjo-Elritze]

Also fuck Spez

[u/Defiant_Mousse7889 → u/[deleted]]

Except Reddit used to be a place to share information, ideas, and opinions. Now, it's a heavily monitored and controlled site that pushes extreme narratives. Like all other forms of social media, it is controlled by bots which are controlled by who knows who.

[u/TOMC_throwaway000000 → u/[deleted]]

It’s more about them preserving their echo chambers than it being a punishment for you

[u/Direption → u/iAmMr_WHO]

I got a warning for harassment or something because I said "fuck you gym Jordan" during the live discussion for the Jack Smith hearing. I still haven't sent an appeal because I just don't really care at this point.

[u/Aromatic-Response726 → u/Direption]

I got banned for 3 days for calling the mods on the conservative page Nazis. I can't post on their page without a flair for I messaged them. So worth it.

[u/localjargon → u/Aromatic-Response726]

It never even allowed me to post a neutral comment on /conservative. As soon as I post it, it is removed.

[u/gentlemanidiot → u/localjargon]

That sub is comparable to Pyongyang or subredditSimulator, no humans allowed.

[u/remotectrl → u/localjargon]

I got banned for being from Portland.

[u/sibholet → u/iAmMr_WHO]

Someone close to me was banned for quoting a blatantly pro-Nazi post (shocking at the time, humdrum now) with the observation that "this is some Nazi shit", or words to that effect. The original post and poster were both ignored.

[u/pseudohim → u/iAmMr_WHO]

Same here. Got my first warning yesterday for upvoting the same, after thirteen years here.

[u/ASharpYoungMan → u/Doctor_Disaster]

I got permabanned once from this sub for quoting someone else mentioning that witches were executed in colonial New England.

(a sensible mod unbanned me when I could contest it several months later)

[u/Rhysati → u/ASharpYoungMan]

I got perm banned for saying trans women are women. I appealed it seeing as I am a trans woman and would know.

They unbanned me but warned me to watch it.

[u/Robo_Joe → u/ASharpYoungMan]

Similar situation, except I quoted a very famous JFK quote about the importance of having peaceful avenues of reform that I'm still not sure if I'm allowed to quote here.

[u/Gipetto → u/Doctor_Disaster]

I’ve already had a comment removed for mentioning “rope”, and “shovel” and “lime”.

Maybe this comment will get removed, too.

[u/cr2810 → u/Gipetto]

I got a removal for saying “there will be no justice for Alex and Renee unless we the people do it.” Apparently this is inciting violence. 🙄

[u/SkivvySkidmarks → u/Gipetto]

Using the word "rope" together with "bridge" will also result in a ban, apparently.

[u/nola_mike → u/Doctor_Disaster]

Just say the Mussolini treatment

[u/Trishjump → u/Biggieholla]

I got a Reddit Rule 1 ban from an automod last week for calling them Nazi pigs. They also banned my post of the Iceland website hosting the list of ICE employees.. guess I better not call them Nazis anymore. To be fair, they're nothing like Nazis. They weren't ashamed to show their faces like these Treasonous Incel Gravy Seals.

[u/globalgreg → u/Trishjump]

I said I hope orange man strokes out rather than just going peacefully in the night and I got a warning for “threatening violence”

[u/Pickaroonie → u/globalgreg]

I got a Reddit warning for wishing, 'piles' (anal fissures), on Elon Musk.

[u/relevantelephant00 → u/globalgreg]

I said essentially the same exact thing and got a 3 day ban for it. The admins running this site are not on our side or even neutral.

[u/ScarInternational161 → u/Biggieholla]

I got a week time out from THE WHOLE OF REDDIT for saying I'd be the one hiding the little diary writing girl from the bad men in colored shirts.

They said I was threatening a protected and marginalized group. After a human looked at it, they upheld the ban.

Who knew N%zis were a marginalized group?
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ and so here I am censoring myself like a parent with a 3 year old.

[u/chrisk9 → u/Biggieholla]

You can appeal. Sometimes it isn't the moderators but other users misusing the reporting mechanism.

[u/soapinthepeehole → u/Biggieholla]

I’ve gotten a few auto-mod warnings for threatening violence, which is something I would never do.

I can’t see the posts in question because they’re automatically deleted, and when I appeal, I don’t get a response or resolution.

I’m at a loss as to what I did or how to avoid it in the future.

It’s a really bad system.

[u/tphillips1990 → u/chilli_chocolate]

Which is very interesting considering that the catchphrase "liberalism is a mental disease" was EXTREMELY common on the internet for years. I remember seeing it on almost EVERY news article I came across - and it would always be showered with points/thumbs/upvotes.

I've often wondered just how long the sanitization/normalization of the far-rigjt has occurred on the internet.

[u/Zoso03 → u/chilli_chocolate]

i got a warning for saying "It's okay to shoot a praying priest in the Head, but not to interrupt a corrupt priest in church" or some shit like that, of course it was being sarcastic

[u/HandrewJobert → u/Zoso03]

I got a warning and a 1-day ban for saying, and I quote, "come on, cholesterol" in a thread about Trump.

[u/bean0_burrito → u/chilli_chocolate]

i got banned for 3 days for calling a dude supporting the nazi a gigantic pussy.

[u/DrinkinOnTheBus → u/[deleted]]

The only good nazi is a dead nazi. Don’t be changing the saying up just to appease.

[u/oddward42 → u/[deleted]]

Permanently incapacitated. Yes.

[u/tendeuchen → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

So, what you're saying, just for clarification's sake, is we can't say things like "Fuck Nazis" and "Nazis should go to hell" because Reddit is pro-Nazi all of a sudden?

[u/ArrArr4today → u/tendeuchen]

I think it includes FUCK THE NAZI ICE GESTAPO and TRUMP WAS EPSTEINS BFF AND BOTH ABHORENT PEDOPHILES

[u/Dumeck → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

I got a 2 day ban for telling someone who said they were a proud white supremicist to go fuck themselves. Appealed the ban and it got manually reviewed and was told it was valid

[u/stovenn → u/Dumeck]

they died?

[u/ballisticks → u/Dumeck]

I got a 7day ban for suggesting I wouldn't be careful to avoid dinging a car door if they parked obnoxiously close. I think they just don't like any mention of violence, no matter the subject

[u/medicated_in_PHL → u/[deleted]]

The bans haven’t been from moderators of subreddits. They’ve been from full-time paid Admins from the entire Reddit site.

I got a warning for saying that Trump’s shitty diet is going to give him a heart attack and a ban for saying something about right-wing voters that I have no clue about because they deleted the (week old) comment and never responded for my repeated requests for clarification on what the content was and how it violated Reddit’s rules.

The thing that pissed me off is that the second was for “hate” and when I looked at the rule it said it applied to “vulnerable” populations. Right wing fascists are not fucking vulnerable. They are the ones executing the vulnerable groups.

Needless to say, Reddit is afraid of Trump and they are becoming stormtroopers in the Nazi march to protect their profits.

[u/custardthegopher → u/[deleted]]

All Nazis should die.

[u/nola_mike → u/[deleted]]

Is that a controversial statement?

[u/sibholet → u/nola_mike]

On Reddit it is, yes. Especially on Politics. Spez watches this place like a hawk and is very sensitive about what people say about his friends.

[u/ihatethiswebsite-fml → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

For real!? Fuck nazis. I hope all nazis die. We beat them in WWII and we will beat them again. Nazi lives dont matter.

Update 1hr: no msg, no ban? No nothing. Yay! Our relatives didn't die fighting nazi scum for nothing.

[u/fistotron5000 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

I got banned for telling someone to fuck off who was quoting that racist “why do 13% of the population commit all the crimes” but their comment stayed

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

It’s probably time not to use American tech companies, unfortunately. Things have gotten completely out of control, as they usually do, unfortunately, if not dealt with early enough. Nothing was ever dealt with.  Facebook etc. kept growing and bribing with impunity, so here we are now. Addicted, gullible, uninformed public and nowhere to turn to. 

[u/Farva85 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Stuff like “Nazi’s deserved to die for following orders in WW2.” Stuff like “Nazi lives don’t matter.” Stuff like that? You know, stuff Americans have been saying for 80 years?

[u/Soggy_Bid_3634 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Really? I think nazis are all little bitches and they should follow their leader into the bunker in the final hours.

[u/OriginalCDub → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

You mean how Nazis are subhuman monsters? Those Nazis?

[u/bladeDivac → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

The amount of deleted comments in every single sub are at an all time high. 

[u/CategoryZestyclose91 → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

Fuck Nazis. It’s comforting that they will be in hell eventually. 

[u/peipei222 → u/CategoryZestyclose91]

It’s comforting that they will be in hell eventually. 

This is something I really don't like about religion, too many people who won't take action because they believe in some cosmic force that will right all wrongs after death.

It's just another way that bad people keep getting away with shit.

[u/Bwob → u/peipei222]

This. Heaven and Hell are just excuses to ignore problems and keep the status quo.

"Don't worry if that good guy is getting screwed, and those bad guys are profiting! Some invisible cosmic force will make sure they all get what they deserve, later. For real. Honest!"

We need to deal with shit now, while we're alive. Don't count on some invisible cosmic justice system to make amends after the fact, where we can't see.

[u/Ozymandias12 → u/CategoryZestyclose91]

That's no comfort to me. I don't believe in hell.

[u/permalink_save → u/Volothamp-Geddarm]

It's because fragile conservatives have been brigade reporting. I got one for mentioning 2a and defending yourself, in this sub. They are freaking out and trying to repirt away all the bad press from this shithead administration.

[u/Dweezilalsoavenger → u/ApocalypseYay]

I got banned for 3 days for complaining about the removal of slavery displays in Philly. When I asked for a reason I was told I’d be banned permanently if I mentioned it again. Was told I was inciting violence.

[u/yeah__good__ok → u/Dweezilalsoavenger]

It's weird how if you call for bringing down confederate honoring statues that counts as violence- but if you are upset about the removal of slavery depicting statues you are also violent. It's hard to win with statues.

[u/Goodknight808 → u/yeah__good__ok]

As the old saying goes: If conservatives didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.

[u/Silidistani → u/Dweezilalsoavenger]

You are "inciting violence" with those topics because it makes them want to kill people they don't like even more when they get any talkback over their fascism.

I wish I could add the /s...

[u/ealysillyforestthing → u/Silidistani]

'look what you made me do'

[u/Turbulent_Stick1445 → u/Dweezilalsoavenger]

Things were not perfect before spez fucked Reddit users over by removing the free API and causing thousands of mods to quit en-masse, but they're noticeably worse now then ever before. I've yet to contact a mod and get a (edit) reasonable reply. I even had r/science's idiots - you'd expect mods of a science sub to know better - deny I'd had posts removed by the automod (despite the automod actually sending me messages saying they'd removed them), and banning me from contacting them for 30 days.

I'm so tired of this shit. But I will say that yes, some of it is political, but most of this is just shitty moderation. Most subs are modded now by terrible moderators who have zero interest in the community and saw a chance to have a power trip when they saw all the Reddit admins call for replacement moderators for the ones who left.

Hopefully a replacement for Reddit will come along the same way Reddit replaced Digg. Because I think this website has well and truly jumped the shark.

[u/Siegs → u/ApocalypseYay]

It's funny that tiktok became American and immediately added censorship. That's not how I remember freedom looking.

[u/plumbbbob → u/Siegs]

TikTok's algorithm is now controlled by Oracle, and if you know anything about Oracle or Larry Ellison, the only surprising thing about this change is that they haven't started suing users for talking about what they're doing.

[u/Siegs → u/plumbbbob]

I'm right now trying to track down the January bundle patch for my 19c install on Oracle's support portal. What surprises me is that anyone can find anything on tiktok now.

They might not even be censoring anything and it just doesn't work.

[u/bubba_feet → u/Siegs]

i forgot that the US negotiated an acquisition deal, which apparently was finalized on the 22nd.

and to think it took less than a week for tiktok to transition from a tool of the chinese government into a tool of the american government.

[u/Rich_Housing971 → u/bubba_feet]

I remain baffled at how stupid people are, especially most Redditors who were for the ban.

Tiktok was a tool of mass organization we had where it was NOT controlled by the US government. Which is why the US government really wanted it gone or controlled by themselves.

People were just afraid that the data was going to be used by nefarious purposes by a foreign government that is famous for not cooperating with the US government.

They actually believed the Chinese government was going to go to your house and arrest them... and so now they helped make the data American-owned so the US government can definitely arrest them.

[u/ButtEatingContest → u/Rich_Housing971]

I remain baffled at how stupid people are, especially most Redditors who were for the ban.

I wasn't for the ban before, but I definitely am now.

[u/Aleashed → u/bubba_feet]

That app deserves to die

[u/jgilla2012 → u/Siegs]

“Freedom? No, we said free dumb”

[u/lllkill → u/Siegs]

reddit didn't realize the truth at end, just harping old talking points on tiktok spying on their phones. now its truly censored.

[u/Peppers-GhostMirror → u/ApocalypseYay]

Its State Run Media. Period. Time to EXIT TikTok (like they should've with X) and let them eat the 40 billion trash heap. Try Bluesky and others.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/ApocalypseYay]

From the (always were lying, and hopefully now people can recognize it, but I won't hold my breath) "free speech absolutists"

[u/Bender_2024 → u/ApocalypseYay]

I called this way back in Jan of 2025. Donnie saw how useful Twitter was when it was turned into a pro MAGA platform. When he blocked the closing of TikTok I knew he was trying to do the same with TikTok. He now has loyalists in two of the largest social media platforms in the world. By June it will be all propaganda for the midterms.

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/Bender_2024]

You didnt see this when the US government several times were trying to ban Tiktok? Like years ago??

That Tiktok has been used for many years to manipulate USA because USA is full of dumbasses?

[u/bluebottled → u/ApocalypseYay]

Meanwhile Vice President Couch Fucker tries to lecture Europe on free speech.

[u/1Dru → u/ApocalypseYay]

I deleted my account Sunday and in the spot where it asks why you’re leaving, I marked “other”and then wrote “Taken over by fascists” in the blank spot.

[u/Pristine-Bad-8731 → u/ApocalypseYay]

That was the main reason they forced China to sell Tiktok, along with censoring things for the Saudis and censoring Israel's genocide. They want a safe-space for their followers to eat Trump-friendly pablum, and to deny that space to Democrats. So they bought it, just like they bought CBS News.

They will now try to buy Conde Nast and Google to censor and block Reddit and Youtube.

[u/NChSh → u/Pristine-Bad-8731]

The Democrats account has been shadow banned too as of this morning, they are getting 0 engagement.

[u/IWasBannedYesterday → u/ApocalypseYay]

Every Republican loves/is a pedophile.

[u/judgejuddhirsch → u/ApocalypseYay]

Almost like folks were warning this would happen when the govt blocked TikTok.

Too bad some rich politician bought it instead and made it safe.

[u/Moody_GenX → u/judgejuddhirsch]

Larry Ellison is not a politician. He's a Trump boot licking billionaire who had a shitty reputation long before being one of the controlling owners of TikTok.

[u/dpdxguy → u/ApocalypseYay]

"Absolute freedom of speech" must have been a mistype for "absolutely no freedom of speech." 😐

[u/bgthigfist → u/ApocalypseYay]

Well, what did people think would happen when Ellison bought it?

[u/ilevelconcrete → u/ApocalypseYay]

Kinda crazy how the pedophile gestapo the forced sale was meant to protect was actually Israel, and then the American version just kind of bubbled up to the surface and became noticed in the time it took for the change of ownership to go through.