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Reddit Censorship of post comments is completely out of control (youtube.com)
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This is a wide spread phenomenon on the platform. Sometimes its just a few comments or even dozens of comments in response to an original comment on a post being grouped together in another button saying (x number of replies) but when you open those replies its either nothing, or significantly less replies than the prompt described. Its mostly all on posts that are political in nature relating to the current fascist takeover in the USA, Luigi Magnione, amazon union busting, anti laborer’s rights legislation, loosening of child labor laws and other topics related to the wider topics regarding disappearing human rights under emboldening fascist authoritarianism. many of us have seen the news articles that mention allegations of reddit censoring comments and giving people violations for liking certain content but nothing is being said about the actual extent of this censorship. But when you can see hundreds of comments being deleted from a post such as this one here, it doesn't bode well for the future

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think it's corporate Reddit. I think it's mostly moderators co-opting the space and wanting to shape the narrative. As you said, almost all of the distortion has to do with either some corporate interest or some political interest. Wonder why. Anyway, Lemmy's equally susceptible to it, because it uses the same model. Being a moderator is a thankless and time-consuming job and there's always a shortage of them, so stepping up to become a mod is pretty much always an option if you are motivated to put some time into it so you can start to shape the discourse within a subreddit or a community.

That stuff is already here on Lemmy at a pretty large scale, it just hasn't progressed to the late-stage shamelessness that it has on Reddit. On Reddit they don't even bother to pretend it's not what they're doing.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But Reddit sent a mass message to moderators telling them how they were expected to moderate any content praising the extra judicial murder of brian Thompson or calling for more political violence against the bourgeoisie….. and now reddit is sending people the same automated response about how liking banned content is against their policy and can lead tk further punitive action against ones account. Basically threatening moderators with banning of the communities they moderate if they did not follow their censorship memorandum. Even before this last summer my account was permanently IP banned for a comment on a post about israel/palestine that essentially said international law states an occupied indigenous population has the right to defend itself by any means necessary including violent resistance. And i was definitely not the first to experience such censorship.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 week ago

Hm, true that. I guess it's both. Synergy.