Reddit admins confirm banning users for posting both the manifesto and the video

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[–]magnora7 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah same with facebook and twitter and instagram I think. They're on clampdown mode.

It's funny how tons of violent movies are totally OK, but real violence is hidden away from the public. I know they don't want to "glorify the killer", which I don't think it does, and censoring info about huge crimes is not a good idea, imo

[–]Icalasari 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The issue was that the shooter wanted the video spread. He basically played media outlets like a fiddle, doing everything specifically to pluck at media's strings and add more division and chaos by twisting stories

It's one thing to be uncensored. It's another thing when media pretends to be uncensored when they are curating every little thing to maximize an agenda

I'm sickened by that shooter, but I am REALLY hoping that this soon results in fines and such for media. Either be news and be neutral, or shut up and stop twisting stuff and publishing half truths

Fucking... Half truths, manipulation, twisting the facts all are the worst kinds of censorship

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree, you bring up a lot of good points. There used to be news media truth-telling laws in place, and then things like the Patriot act and the 1996 Telecommunications Act got rid of those. And also there used to be 35 media companies in 1985, and now there are 6.