That's pretty sad, I heard that another old reddit user said that reddit used to be tolerant of differing views and if you said something contrary to the viewpoint of the sub, the worst that will happen is mass downvoting, instead of banning people, someone would try to prove you wrong, although I'm not sure if they were using reddit for 11 years. Also, I've heard that Digg was used before reddit, when did the switch happen?

At least some popular posts are pro-Hong-Kong.