Reddit literally feels like 1984, the app of censorship. Is there a reason? I feel like I can’t get any real trustworthy news for the most part on this app unless it comes from a very select few subreddits. Like every other subreddit that shouldn’t have anything to do with politics is talking about how terrible Donald Trump and his supporters are even though I know, the app is available to both conservative and liberals alike, however there is a clear over representation of anti Trump/AntiMAGA memes, stories etc with overwhelming support for only people who smear Trump or talk up the democrats. It feels like this is at least 95% of the stuff I see on here and if it wasn’t for the specific subs I follow, I would only see things that would make me believe Donald Trump is the modern day hitler and his MAGA/MAHA crew are the modern day Nazis. Some of the stuff I see on here literally insinuates to the death and/or harm of Donald Trump and his supporters. Is Reddit a psy-op? Lol. Do the people that own Reddit not think revenue would increase if more people used the app? It’s becoming unbearable and honestly annoying to basically be told everyday that you’re a Nazi that voted for Hitler and you’re a piece of shit. If not for a select few subreddits that provide much needed help with cars, guns etc. This app would be worthless to a conservative or even truly moderate person. It’s that bad. I don’t understand why the owners of the app wouldn’t want to allow more open discussion without completely silencing one side. Who are their advertisers? Like does it really generate more money to basically ostracize half of the country to a point where they don’t use your app anymore? Who owns Reddit?? Whoever you are, your business model is a joke and a tool of propaganda for someone…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/media/trump-press-act-journalists-media-freedom/index.html

That didn't take long at all.

Reddit has a gif for Sam Kinison but none for a certain guy from WW2 era Germany.

Which makes it hard to execute a certain guy from WW2 era Germany on ice joke…

I want to voice my frustrations a little.

I got into an argument with someone and we both exchanged hurtful speech toward each other. Mostly consisting of calling each other an idiot.

Well, that message got deleted and I told the mod that he was being unreasonable. That it was a mutual disagreement between two people. It was flagged for 'harassment'. The mod essentially responded just with 'you broke the rules' and no amount of me saying that we harassed each other (which calling someone an 'idiot' on an online forum is hardly harassment) would change his mind. You might as well have chatgbt moderate and it would have done better. Bro was a bot.

Then, that mod reported me for 'harassment' again... Let me explain what harassment is to you Reddit...

Definition of Harassment: "Aggressive pressure or intimidation."

Calling someone an idiot on one forum and disagreeing with the moderator isn't 'harassment'... I didn't hunt this person down on other forums. I didn't dm them to continue the insults. I stopped insulting when they stopped. It was consensual start to end. I didn't insult them personally. I didn't call them ugly (I have no idea what they look like). All I did is call them dumb. I didn't make other people follow my opinion and gang up on them. I don't even know if they blocked me or not because I did that little revisiting to the person or messages.

If I don't have the free speech to call someone 'dumb' or an 'idiot' because I disagree with their opinion because someone will report me and accuse me of committing a litteral crime... Then it really feels like I am being 'intimidated' to keep my mouth shut and maybe even the other guy I called an idiot is too. I don't know what they did with his messages. If I want to argue with someone, let me argue and call them an idiot. If they hate me so much, let them block me, or even remove my message, that's fine. But to claim I harassed someone is beyond fucked.

First of all, the censorship i am talking about are more in general instead of narrative based.

Recently, sometimes i find ot difficult to ask questions or find answers on the internet because reddit is the biggest forum this thus having the bigger pool of users that can provide knowledge and answers.

However most subs are rin by individual groups, the bigger the sib the more control and restrictions the mods put on.

For example if i am looking for answers related to cars, theres 2 or 3 big car subs onreddit, however they all share similar censorships that discourage people asking questions. most posts gets autodeleted or manually deleted die to "low effort post". this keans we either have to go to smaller subs with little users or forget about it.

Health, medical, dental subs are one of the worst. Some subs dont even allow new users to the sib to post anything, like you jeed to become a valuable member before posting.

Another issue is that many of the big subs of related topics are runned by the same people. tgis means they dictate what and what cannot be posted, so the only way to overcome this is out of reddit. Example would ve covid related subs, but most censorship are on the narratives and "misinformation", some only allow posting legit news nothing else despite the sub isnt just about news.

Also alot of times people assume all queations has been asked and answered thus no questions allowed because hot topics bring i more views and make the sub more popular this the mods more exclusive so you have to google the same answers the bots recommend which are usually manipulated.

i also tried to open a thread on leathermaker, but seems that sub only cares about people posting their works, good thing there was a friendly leathermaker for beginner subs, but many less popular topics do not have this so often we find ourselves reaching a wall. sure you can post in askreddit but censorship is even worse there.

in the old days appointed mods may have their own agendas but they have to follow the site rules, on reddit mods can set any rules they wanti think just a matter of time people move on from reddit once theres a better board based alternatives.

ever since once years ago google has become u reliable and usially the way forward would be posting in forums, but seems that people assume all things have been covered and just let google/a.i find the answers for you.

ironically, this sub is in restricted mode and requires manual approval on posts 🤔

Never made one of these before. Tried posting it in "Social Media", ironically it was instantly moderated.

Are others becoming aware of how commonplace it is to have posts and comments deleted and censored online? I have been banned permanently from Instagram, Twitter (under Musk's reign) and all my comments on YouTube do not show up if I mention nasty words like "war", which effectively rules out talking about world events. I was also permanently banned from the Guardian online newspaper comments for arguing that George Floyd was not necessarily targeted because of his race, and that it was unwise to assume a racial motive without evidence, in light of other high profile incidences on police britality on non-Black suspects. Aka I was banned for an opinion expressed without bad language, and without bad intent.

Okay,I was banned from Instagram a decade ago for creating multiple accounts when I was 17. That's really it. I never even got on the platform, never posted and never made any comments. Instagram has never forgiven me for this. Any device associated with my identity is not permitted to create an Instagram account.

Twitter (X) permanently suspended my account for, and I really do mean this, absolutely no reason. It occurred after I was arguing with an awful woman, I jokingly wrote that her orange stripey top in her PP looked like a "prison jumpsuit". Hardly abuse, it was a top not her physical attributes that I was mocking. I have to assume she reported me and Twitter took it extremely seriously. I am not permitted to delete my suspended account, nor can I contact Twitter at all.

Just wondering if anyone else has felt weirdly targeted, as if shadow banned a cross all platforms, despite behaving in a harmless manner. I like expressing my opinions and like debating, but clearly online platforms do not.

The three dots on the right top side are missing. They aren't missing for anything else. Maybe an error, maybe censorship.

Do people still believe Elon cares about freedom of speech now he controls the government & hive mind anti-woke virus? Very sad!

I feel like I see post after post complaining about censorship on Reddit or on specific subs. OK. But then you can just go to another platform, right? I don't think your view would be censored on 4Chan, so why not post there?