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/Piltonbadger 24d ago

I've used Reveddit for ages. It's good to see when mods sneakily remove your posts, so others can't see it but to you it looks like nobody responded to your post.

People might be surprised at how many of their posts might have been sneakily removed without their knowledge by mods.

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u/Coffee_Ops 24d ago

I have never once been banned from a right-wing subreddit based on the ideology or views of one of my comment.

On the contrary, I have been banned from multiple left-leaning subs, not even for commenting there, but for having commented in other subs at some point in the past based solely on the ideology of those other subs.

I was also banned from a left-leaning sub for having been a conservative after the Dobbs decision. I had taken no action, I don't even believe I was active on Reddit. It was just a blanket ban of any conservatives.

Maybe I don't see the toxic right-wing subs, but it is shocking to me to hear someone's suggest that this is more prevalent on the right. Reddit is a pretty left-leaning site, so you would expect most of the toxicity to be left-leaning and that's what I've tended to find.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

You are talking about litteral echo chamber subs. I'm talking about organized takeovers of local subs.

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u/Coffee_Ops 23d ago

How are you determining this is organized and not organic?

The nova sub is wildly anti-right to the point where I could say "I hope Trump doesn't die today" and net -50 within a few minutes. You'd think that if this sort of thing was organized it would be a top target.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

By looking at the user profiles. The mods have 1-2 month old accounts. All the top posters have 1-2 month old accounts and post content every few minutes 24/7.

This is organized by morons who don't know how to buy farmed accounts.