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
102.3k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

3.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

446

u/gmishaolem 24d ago

For example, you can set up the automod to remove someone's comments/posts the second they make them.

Happens all the time. Plenty of subs have word lists and if your comment has one of those words in it, it gets removed but still appears for you. Happened today to me in a post in memes, and of course the moderators never bother to respond when messaged because why would they? No consequences, no recourse.

For months now, every time I post anywhere I have a different browser open and drag my comment over to it to see if it even gets posted, and that way I see the big offender subs like news, politics, and worldnews.

120

u/tahlyn 24d ago

I've taken to opening my account in an incognito browser at least once a day expecting a shadowban... and any post that gets no upvotes I tend to check on it, too, to be sure it went through.

It's pathetic that it is this way. There should be some flag in your userpage that shows the comment was removed.

60

u/EchoAtlas91 24d ago

So I've been doing the same exact thing, and any comment that's been shadowbanned I've been screenshotting it and reposting it to the comment I was replying to simply with

"This is the comment I was trying to make."

A comment I literally just made in this thread was shadowbanned and I did this. Someone should make a browser extension that does the whole screenshot of text then upload to imgur automatically upon finding out something's been shadowban to stick it to the system.

6

u/tahlyn 24d ago

Careful, going around a subreddits word ban list can get you blocked from that sub.

5

u/Mysterious-Plan93 24d ago

Ergo, "Get over here, so I may stab you"

2

u/Artystrong1 23d ago

I'm going to slice out your eyes, and your balls. And then I am going to stick your eyes in your ball sacks. And then I will take your balls, and I will put them in your eyeholes!