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.

[u/Well_Socialized]

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

[u/techlos]

the latest one i had shadow removed? Pointing out that princess daisy's local hunk united people across political divides, and that's why he's such a threat to established power dynamics.

[u/NotAllOwled → u/techlos]

My latest was one saying "Australia doesn't disappoint!" in response to a comment asserting that they were one of the last countries to have used the legal concept of outlawry (cf. Ned Kelly). Hot button for someone?

[u/moubliepas → u/techlos]

The problem with this is, when you force people to use increasingly ridiculous phrases to skirt secret filters, we're approaching the rather surreal stage where any out-of-place noun phrase probably means That Guy With Great Cheekbones, the bad orange man, or his friend - you've just got to figure out which one it is, and that's actually kinda fun. It's like a massive international game of Who Am I, or a shiny new in joke that can be as silly as you want. 

And really, a guy did die. Whatever your morals or political opinions, threatening or ending someone's life is serious. I personally think every person's death is a serious, sombre event and how ever much I dislike what they did, I will never celebrate or belittle someone's passing. Either they had dignity and decency, which I will respect, or they didn't and their passing has left the world a kinder place, which I don't want to ruin.

But when the entire complex, undoubtedly serious event must be referred to with cartoon like game characters or references to the one unusual feature of the remaining participant (the guy is undoubtedly attractive), kinda difficult to give it the gravity and respect due to the victim.