r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 23d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/Thadrach 23d ago

Dunno about that, but I got a three day ban for "sharing violent content."

The "example" Reddit gave with my ban had zero violence...not even oblique references to you-know-who...and none of the nested posts were mine.

The up/down arrows weren't highlighted, so I couldn't even figure out which one to look at...not that it would have mattered.

Idiotic system.

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u/H3racIes 23d ago

I got a week ban for saying "I understand Trump has predecessors who would take over and further his agenda if he were killed, but what happens if someone were to murder Musk?"

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u/NatomicBombs 23d ago

I really doubt any of Trump’s predecessors would take over. Not sure where you even got that idea.

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u/H3racIes 23d ago

Possibly the wrong word. But I only meant like-minded individuals will continue to push his agenda or make it worse. Like Vance taking over and pushing the agenda Trump began and that daddy Thiel will end

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u/Odd-Help-4293 23d ago

Yeah, "predecessors" means people who came before him. Biden and Obama would be his predecessors.

Co-conspirators, maybe?

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u/ArseneGroup 23d ago

It's the antonym of predecessors, successors

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u/H3racIes 23d ago

I see, thank you. But then yes, those shitheads

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u/s1m0n8 23d ago

I got a warning for upvoting something, but the warning didn't say what it was. I suspect it's because I upvoted a [ Removed by Reddit ] post on the basis of whatever it said before they removed it, even though I have no idea what that was.

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u/cloudforested 23d ago

Man, not even two weeks ago I made a comment calling the defenders of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers racists. Got a week's ban for promoting violence.

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u/Hoss-Bonaventure_CEO 23d ago

I got a three day ban for quoting It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

I replied to your comment with a similar story and apparently it was auto-removed lol. Reddit is completely broken.

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u/Ozok123 22d ago

Voldemort?

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u/baron_von_helmut 22d ago

Same here, but they refused to tell me what comment i'd posted which broke the rules and navigating there is was just 'removed'. I don't post hateful content anyway but I don't like having a strike on my account when they won't show me what comment of mine broke the rules.

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u/Masochist_pillowtalk 20d ago

I got a 3 day ban for lol'ing at tesla stock crashing for inciting violence or threatening physical harm

Bullshit.