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/ThomasStankEngine 23d ago

Someone say fuck /u/spez?

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u/dust_buster17 23d ago edited 23d ago

He used to be a mod of the subreddit that sounds like you’re fishing for prisons. (I’m scared to type out the actual word)

Edit: Apparently this was done as a prank but no one posted proof so idk if it’s true or not.

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u/DaytonaRS5 23d ago

He was a mod of a nonce subreddit.

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u/doyouevennoscope 22d ago

You could add anyone as a mod to subs back then. It's no different than everyone currently tagging him with 'fuck you'. A laugh in his face.

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u/created4this 22d ago

That was only because he thought it was a sub about cryptography and math

[I appreciate this is quite a niche joke]