Even spez is getting sick of the powermods' tantrums demanding megacensorship. This should not be possible, but they did it.

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[–]AnarchySpeach 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy. Reddit is a place for open and authentic discussion and debate. This includes conversations that question or disagree with popular consensus. This includes conversations that criticize those that disagree with the majority opinion.

Oh wow. That sounds nice-

This includes protests that criticize or object to our decisions on which communities to ban from the platform.

Bull-fucking-shit it does.

However, manipulating or cheating Reddit to amplify any particular viewpoint is against our policies, and we will continue to action communities that do so or that violate any of our other rules,

That is the politest "Go fuck yourselves, peasants. Now go back to your room before we ground you." I have ever seen.

"Manipulating or cheating reddit to amplify"

Voting. You know, the "democracy" you were glorifying 3 paragraphs earlier? omfg the pure ego oozing from this fucking reddit post.

The sad part that hurts the most is that none of these mods are willing to stand up and continue the fight because they don't want their tiny fiefdom taken away. They're pro-censorship until they, themselves, are threatened with it and then suddenly their attention turns to something else to burn.

[–]Vulptex[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

However, manipulating or cheating Reddit to amplify any particular viewpoint is against our policies, and we will continue to action communities that do so or that violate any of our other rules,

Unless they're the special default mods of course.

[–]Trajan 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

All of what Spez said would certainly be worthy if not for the following:

  1. Powermods controlling an unusual number of default subs. This is particularly notable in news and country subs, almost entirely given over to left-wing viewpoints.

  2. Mods sharing block lists that automatically bans users who have posted in a politically denounced sub - regardless of what they post. This includes subs that appear in /r/all. Although not explicitly against their rules, Reddit advisees against this practice, thus they should at least remove such subs from /r/all. It's bizarre. Even subs as diverse as mental health and hair-related subs, run by SJWs, do this.

  3. Shadowbanning, with little explanation as to why this occurred, only becoming apparent if a friendly mod notices it.

  4. Shutting down all conversation concerning a paedo admin.

  5. Identitarian left subs brigading and spewing terrible vitriol. Meanwhile, subs that don't respect party orthodoxy tread a fine line to avoid being shuttered.