can someone explain to me the difference between corporate and government censorship, when corporations and the government are definitely fucking?
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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First the removesort by controversial, and then you can't even see controversial posts. Soon there will be no conflicting opinions, just a hive mind echo chamber.
Yeah I got signaled on reddit for saying something about Trump, Elon and Vance regarding to Ukraine. Nothing that hasn't been said, but I said they can fuck off and stop propping Russian imperialism and kidnapping children while commiting warcrimes. Guess Reddit is against that as they removed my comment and gave me a warning.
Reminds me of back in 2013 when Reddit admins accidentally revealed that Eglin Air Force Base, a location often cited as the source of government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs, was the most Reddit addicted city in the world.
r/fuckreddit
Spez has gone so far beyond being a mere cuck. He's a goddamn cuckasauras.
Oh no! Anyways…
fuck reddit
you know it's bad when ohanian and rose have gotten together to make a new digg
!spezholedesign
Fuck it, I'm going to delete the account that I used to get over a previous permaban. I'll read, but not post. No point in just posting anyway.
That's the pedophile piss baby aka u/spez aka Steve Huffman, right? As in the guy that moderated a pedo sub?
What a greedy little pis baby pig boy.
I'm glad that I don't use Reddit and have no intention on doing so. I remember there was a very talented artist who was wrongfully accused of using AI and banned on the art subreddit. That artist got banned even though receipts were shown to the mods proving the art was not AI, and I guess with this policy, I'd be at risk of being banned from Reddit altogether because I for sure would've upvoted the art if I did have a Reddit account, it was amazing.
Perma banned because I wished c-ncer on a pro-Israel troll. Is that an earned ban you guys think?
I wished cancer on plenty pro putinist, pro stalinist, pro genocide pieces of shit and got permad as well.
I have so much free time now.
I had my 13 year old account banned on reddit and the 'final' statement was saying 'No, just the problems they deserve blame for' to a Zionist who accused all Lebanese people of blaming all of Lebanon's problems on Israel.
Just saying that apparently is a call to violence against Jews...
Hell, I said all Nazis can go die or kill themselves. Perm banned. Reason why I'm here. Fuck that place.
... But all Nazis can go die or kill themselves.
Yup. I said things about Elon and Trump and how they are nazis supporting nazis like Putin commiting war crimes and I got a warning. Reddit can get lost.
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I got banned when I saw someone say trans kids should be hunted in schools, and I told them I wish they'd get hit with a brick.
I got banned for making fun of Kemi Badenoch when she said autistic people are privileged. I said maybe she's jealous that there are people that know more about trains than her. That was apparently enough to warrant a permanent ban.
You're a monster.
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I had an old account banned site wide for asking why there was an obvious gay guy on love island. Wasn't even a malicious post I was genuinely curious how he faked his way on there.
Recently I got a temp ban for mentioning chatgpt on the books sub, someone was asking about a large selection of books and which were worth reading. I told him to get chatgpt to sort the list out by most popular. Apparantly even mentioning an llm exists there is a ban.
Kinda get the second one as authors all think chatgpt stealing from them or something but yeah I was talking about sorting a large list
Why the hell would you go on a book community, open a discussion post that is clearly asking for personal opinions and go "I dunno lol go ask chatgpt". I would've banned you too tbqh.
Well how else are you going to sort a list of about 30 books to decide which are worth time or not. The guy had bought an anthology of every Alien/Aliens novel and was complaining a lot of the books in it were really bad and wanted help knowing which ones are actually worth reading.
I just reply to things that show up my feed honestly and pretty randomly in fact that's why I've posted here as well.
By TALKING TO PEOPLE
I replied because nobody was helping him and there's an easy solution. Didn't know r/books was now back in the dark ages to be fair.
Jesus… ITT I learned mods on Reddit are fucking snowflakes.
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I got shadowbanned after finally actively posting... On r/BuyFromEU... idk man
Shadowbanning in Europe is very hard to pull off without crossing DSA and GDPR rules, which require transparency and informing of the user. Specifically DSA Article 17.
Here's a Dutch case regarding it: https://dsa-observatory.eu/2024/08/06/the-dsas-first-shadow-banning-case/
I'm posting this because if you are European, you should be informed of any shadowban, which makes it a normal ban by definition. If you had to investigate and found out you are shadowbanned, your rights have been violated. I think the best way to get something going is by using a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body, although there's probably a lot of other ways. And if you don't want to return to Reddit anymore, it might be fun to throw some legal shit at their shit platform on your way out.
My reddit account suddenly got a lot of "server errors", can't post anymore and likes don't count towards the streak. Since getting the "Network errors" I've also been getting 0 interaction.
I do actually live in the Netherlands now, what could I do to try and cause some chaos for this bs without paying for it? It happened to my last reddit account as well which a subreddit mod literally told me was shadow banned (like over 5 years ago now) and I should get that checked out.
Per 4 februari 2025 zijn de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) en de Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) bevoegd om in Nederland toezicht te houden op de regels van de DSA.
As of Feb. 4, 2025, the Personal Data Authority (AP) and the Consumer & Market Authority (ACM) are authorized to oversee DSA rules in the Netherlands.
Submit a complaint:
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