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/eleven_eighteen 23d ago

Anyone who thinks it is weird hasn't been paying attention to reddit for a good while. Fuck /u/spez.

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u/tallandlankyagain 23d ago

"Free speech I disagree with isn't free speech. It's... Uh... Violent?"- /u/spez

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u/KWilt 23d ago

/u/spez loves being free to edit your speech when he's a little stressed.

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u/eleven_eighteen 23d ago

It's utterly astounding and baffling that he kept his job after that. It doesn't matter who the users were and what kind of shit they said. If they are getting too crazy handle it properly with policies against hate speech and such and remove the content. But to fucking change a comment made by a user? That's like THE thing you just cannot fucking do on a site like this. Should be instant termination for anyone, including the CEO.