r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 24d 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/timshel42 24d ago edited 24d ago

reddit is censoring and shadowbanning far more than most realize.

this will let you see all your comments that have been removed.
reveddit.com

edit- seems to be getting the reddit hug of death. worked for me this morning and now isnt.

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u/Dave-C 24d ago

Around a year ago Reddit opened up a new system to remove posts that it finds "hostile." It is ran by an AI and it removes a lot of posts. As far as I remember it was opened up on all subreddits as a default of being on. It really made this type of thing worse.

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u/no_one_likes_u 24d ago

I made a comment replying to someone who was calling for armed revolution, and I said maybe we should try actually voting. My account got banned for 3 days for posting violent content lol

Their comment stayed up. So shitty AI definitely seems likely 

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u/Odd-Delivery1697 23d ago

People can report you and the AI defaults to banning. If you bother to contest the ban then you usually get unbanned within a day.

Source been pointlessly 3 day banned multiple times. My last 1 was for "inciting violence or hatred" because I was arguing with conservatives about Elon Musk. Never said anything about harming him or said anything hateful. I got unbanned the same day, thankfully.