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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/unpluggedcord 24d ago edited 23d ago

Yeah I got perm banned from r/iOS because apparently im a ban evader? "Reddit admins tagged you as a ban evader, go talk to them"

Hmm. Ive had the same account forever, never opened another account, nobody in my house uses reddit but me, and Ive never been banned by Reddit.

"You can appeal to reddit, go talk to them, You're now banned from talking to mods." Dafuq?

OKay Goto Reddit ban appeals page.

"Your account is in good standing with reddit and is not banned"

Okay mod power trip, got it.

https://imgur.com/a/6jpbFCi

https://i.imgur.com/P21pwAZ.jpeg

Edit: Just reached out to the sub again and the response I got was "Ask admins"

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u/NetworkTime7905 24d ago

I keep getting banned because I was for some reason banned from “pics” for previously posting on “asmondgold” or something, but I could not find any place where I had interacted with that sub. And then I keep getting “ban evasion” bans for accidentally commenting on “pics” from my other account.

Totally cool and not stupid

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u/sw00pr 24d ago

Very authoritarian. Reddit used to cheer when "guilt by association" bans went through; it's bittersweet to see the hivemind have second thoughts.