Comment by [deleted] on 30/06/2020 at 01:29 UTC

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=> Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 07:00 UTC

86 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Very good post, great points. I agree with all of this. I miss the Reddit I discovered many years ago.

One thing I used to love about Reddit was that although there has been some questionable content here and there over the years, some of it made the site more legitimate when compared against other platforms (er...publishers) due to the initial lack of censorship. For example, "Watchpeopledie" was a good subreddit to have here. Was it "shock" content? Sure. But was it uselessly shocking? Definitely not. In fact, Watchpeopledie was incredibly valuable. For example...

YouTube, for example, is a family-friendly ish site. At least it tries to be - no gore, no killing, no "shock" value stuff, etc. However, what we are left with is videos of idiots walking on the top levels of sky scrapers looking down at the streets below, parkour over deadly gaps, people generally doing dangerous stunts successfully... Followed by high fives and smiles all around, etc... along with the discussion about how ballsy and crazy it is.

But what is not shown on Youtube are the times when those stunts aren't successful, resulting in consequences. Young people see this kind of stuff and are influenced by it. They are impressionable. They don't see the entirely realistic scenario where somebody misses a jump and falls 20 feet onto concrete. They only see the "cool" side of it and the clout those people build from doing dumb shit like that. This kind of content is on Reddit, too (think /r/sweatypalms). To call this example a hyperbole would be naive.

Also, you are totally right about the "majority" descriptor in Reddit's new "policy." This doesn't make any sense. /r/fragilewhiteredditor 's message clearly is that if you are white, you automatically live a privileged life and your hardships don't compare to that of a black person or "minority" (which, again, doesn't make sense from a worldwide perspective). There is a startling amount of racist content on that subreddit. However, /r/afragileblackredditor, a subreddit I didn't even know existed until today, was banned. Does that make any sense for people living in a country where whites are minorities? Also, when did it become okay to offend white people?

Additionally, many conservative forums on this site have been completely nuked. Censorship (or "breaking the rules," as Reddit calls it) is dangerous. Reddit's policy is that if you aren't liberal, you are racist and you should be banned because it is wrongthink. I love reading good arguments on either side of an issue, but I don't get to see both arguments anymore because Reddit shuts one side down almost automatically. I noticed Reddit's censorship started getting out of hand particularly following the 2016 presidential election, but I had no idea it would get this bad.

It's quite apparent that these "changes" are politically motivated. They aren't saving anybody. Except, I don't know, maybe the Chinese government.

=> Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 06:25 UTC*

88 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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=> Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 03:01 UTC

126 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I've been scoping this thread out periodically thru the day. Your post is excellent and it's a shame you didn't post sooner. Thanks for the great examples.

=> Comment by sargrvb at 30/06/2020 at 16:35 UTC

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When you ban comedy in the name of justice, you fucked up. /r/fatpeoplehate was the same problem and no one had issues then. We need to stop pretending like being offended by poor taste is toxic. It's distasteful and should be avoided. But it won't kill you.

=> Comment by LegendaryAce_73 at 30/06/2020 at 04:45 UTC

89 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Of course that bitch Spez didn't respond to you. You've made excellent points and that smarmy little fuck avoided it.

=> Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 05:08 UTC

41 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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=> Comment by pipinngreppin at 30/06/2020 at 04:42 UTC

16 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I had one called r/whitepeopleshit that was basically r/whitepeoplegifs but with videos. All goofy stuff. No hate. Even specifically said it was not for racism. Was banned.

Add that to the list.

=> Comment by GppleSource at 30/06/2020 at 06:56 UTC

58 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Where did u/Spez go, he just disappeared!

=> Comment by NAMEREDACTEDthecitra at 30/06/2020 at 03:18 UTC

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=> https://www.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/hi41t2/the_banwave_so_far/

=> Comment by ilumyo at 30/06/2020 at 09:36 UTC*

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Also, subs like r/fauxbait are still up. It has been shamed, many other subs and many people raised concerns, yet nobody ever fucking cared. These subs are up, they are huge and they fuel literal pedophilia.

Fair warning: It's traumatising, just so you know. I went there once because people over at r/feminism where discussing it, but I won't and can't investigate again.

=> Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 10:55 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The only reason this “majority” thing is here is because it’s a more nice way of saying “don’t make fun of people, unless they’re people we don’t like”.

So true!!!!

=> Comment by marmorsymphata at 30/06/2020 at 07:04 UTC

38 upvotes, 3 direct replies

The craziest ban to me is /r/rightwingLGBT. They've literally just banned a minority sub for, as far as I can tell, simply not being leftists.

=> Comment by UnfriendlyToast at 30/06/2020 at 03:12 UTC

11 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I was recently unbanned from politics. My banned comment was a joke. It read “Burn it all down” It wasn’t that bad but it was off topic and childishly violent. Though I see worse comments every single thread calling for death and violence. They all Go completely unchecked.

=> Comment by IwritewhileIpoop at 30/06/2020 at 03:56 UTC

51 upvotes, 4 direct replies

Reddit is just a hardcore left wing website. They won't admit it but it's true and their clearly not going to change. Trump supporter your a racist. Make a joke saying that a girl looks like a man, sexist. Call a crazy white lady a Karen, here's your gold. You like a comedian cause their funny, bigot. Make an ironic joke while doing an Asian accent, canceled. Post videos of people stealing, hero. Your a green frog named pepe, racist.

=> Comment by Carbo__ at 30/06/2020 at 03:04 UTC

38 upvotes, 1 direct replies

+1 this site is a publisher now I guess

=> Comment by [deleted] at 30/06/2020 at 12:21 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

What is considered a majority?

They're obviously aiming at hetereosexual White male and females.

=> Comment by ImProbablyNotABird at 30/06/2020 at 21:35 UTC

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r/atheism was a signatory of the r/AgainstHateSubreddits letter that started this shit.

=> Comment by WasteVictory at 30/06/2020 at 18:23 UTC

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Arent brown muslims and Asians the majority globally ? So reddit is saying racism is ok as long as its towards asians and middle easterners?

=> Comment by slartibartfastBB at 30/06/2020 at 15:43 UTC

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Look, I just went to r/politics and it's solely a Trump hate group!

=> Comment by Koenfoo at 03/07/2020 at 16:19 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yeah, fuck r/sino and their network. They doxxed people in the past and tried to take over r/China

=> Comment by istealmemes24 at 30/06/2020 at 04:41 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Time to make fun on the Javanese /s

=> Comment by Xenostera at 30/06/2020 at 21:05 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

u/spez won't reply to this. Lol.

=> Comment by rickster330 at 30/06/2020 at 03:11 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Thank you so much for this post

=> Comment by mairnaise_sammich at 30/06/2020 at 14:37 UTC

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They're not gonna listen...you make to much sense. Can't talk to Nazis.

=> Comment by drifloonveil at 30/06/2020 at 19:01 UTC

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There are quite a few “Asian supremacist” subreddit’s that remain up— azn identity, azn masculinity, eastern sun rising, sin0 obviously (I don’t want to tag any of them directly for fear of calling them). So I guess white nationalism is bad but Asian nationalism is okay, even though we have historical (Japanese empire/WW2) and modern (CCP China) examples of racist colonist regimes.