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[–]cloudrabbit 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah it's funny. Imagine a site that consists of all the communities banned from reddit. What a company that would have been! The_Donald, incels, conservatives, feminists, ultra-left wing (like that Chappo subreddit? although I heard that was a martyr for an excuse to ban TD). I never thought a day would come when I'd feel kinship with all those groups, but now I do. IMO unless a group promotes violence, they shouldn't be banned.

[–]Dashing-Dove 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Likewise, kinship through hardship. Unlikely allies are created when we're all subject to the same hostile forces. Who's the real enemy? The one that would silence our ideas. I'm happy to share a platform and actually discuss points of difference instead of wasting words in a dull, uncontroversial echo chamber, which is what Reddit's become. Chapo may have been a sacrificial lamb to deflect accusations of political bias, but even so, it shows how little regard Reddit actually had for that community, and their members should take note - no one's safe, it's a slippery slope once censorship begins.