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/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.

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u/RolandTwitter 24d ago

What do you do that makes you so scared of a shadowban, do you like to say slurs or something?

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u/MOIST_PEOPLE 24d ago

I like to join all kinds of subs even if I am not a part of the "community". Mainly just to see what they do and talk about. I am subbed to nurses and to a couple doctor subs, quilting for example. I joined the socialist gun club or whatever it's called, BUT I also joined the police sub, and r/ pics gave me a lifetime ban, I never even posted in either sub.

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u/Maccabre 24d ago

could it be you get auto banned in one sub for being a member in another?

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u/MOIST_PEOPLE 24d ago

Absolutely, Go join r protectandserve and get banned from r pics.
Years ago there was a sub called femaledatingstrategy. The posts in there were wild. I subbed to it to read stuff that I thought was appalling, you know, for the lols, I think I got autobanned from 3 subs. Whatever

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u/Liberally_applied 24d ago

I got banned ffrom 3 subs for making an anti maga comment on neofeudalism. It said "because you participated" in the ban message. Policing what subs you comment in is seriously messed up and super controlling. I'm okay with being banned from subs run by those kinds of people.