/r/DeclineIntoCensorship
Documenting the decline into censorship through out the world both online and offline.
Subreddit Rules:
1 - Follow Reddit's Content Policy
2 - No Off-Topic Posts
Posts must be related to some form of censorship.
3 - No Usernames in Screenshots
Reddit Admins require us to censor usernames out of screenshots and avoid username mentions in text posts.
4 - No Crossposts and/or No Linking other Subreddits in Comments
Reddit Admins require us to forbid links to other subreddits.
5 - No Meta Discussion about any Admin or Mod action on Reddit.com
Reddit Admins have forbid us from discussing any admin or mod action on reddit.com. (this includes posts showing your subreddit or sitewide ban messages.)
6 - YouTube posts must include a TL;DW comment
If you post a youtube video, make a short comment, and explain what is the video about, and how is it relevant to censorship. If you fail to do this, your post may be removed.
Use this space to document examples of censorship. This includes censorship that occurs beyond the borders of this fundamentally bad faith website.
Censorship isn't just when the government violates free speech. It happens whenever content or a point-of-view is removed, blocked, or otherwise hidden, and/or when a person is punished or faces the threat of punishment for his views. That means that, yes, it is censorship when a post or comment gets removed, and, no, the reason for the censorship doesn't change whether or not censorship actually happened. Don't let yourself conflate the justification for any given censorship with the notion that censorship must be unjust. The removal of spam is censorship. The removal of NSFW material in a SFW sub is censorship. Being banned for breaking the rules is, you guessed it, censorship. That all of that is justified is immaterial to the definition of censorship.
Where it isn't immaterial is to the decline into censorship. Hold your definition of bad censorship to a higher standard than getting banned for breaking a rule; nuanced distinction will help you to better understand when you're seeing the decline. Reddit telling conservative-leaning subs that they can't allow screenshots of other sub names, all while they let SubredditDrama provide dozens of intentionally brigade-inducing links in posts every single day is a prime example of the decline. (It's also an example of Big Tech's bad faith antics.)
Don't brigade other subs from here. Don't harass other users. You can't link to usernames, and there are some very sensitive users who you can't even mention. Please don't try to circumvent these restrictions. Don't use slurs or substitutes for slurs. You very much should consider totally avoiding reddit's Forbidden Topic (aka trans people). Reddit, Inc is very butthurt that its view might not be the majority view even within its own echo-chamber.
If you want to stay on this god forsaken site, download any app other than the official app. RiF is a great choice for Android, but there are many other options.
Use https://www.reveddit.com to see how often you've been censored.
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Trump White House rolls out social media account to hold 'fake news accountable'
12:40 UTC
Civility based censorship is way more prevalent than political censorship and gets next to no attention.
Why is there so much more attention given to political based censorship than civility based censorship? Almost every subreddit and Facebook group has some rules about being civil to other people, but the spotlight always seems to be about political speech.
18:25 UTC
Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters
19:57 UTC
is this sub being botted?
most posts critisizing meta/x for censorships seem to be getting horrendous upvote ratio's, which makes no sense given that they are posted here in a subreddit about censorship.
08:45 UTC
Censorship datasets?
I am in search of some datasets that include pre- and post-redaction versions of "sensitive" documents, pre- and post-alteration versions of images or new articles, etc. We are trying to empirically demonstrate the performance of a new cryptographic scheme for censorship-resistant publishing and would like to find a corpus of "real" censorship instances to evaluate it on. We already know that our scheme works pretty well, but part of its efficiency is dependent on the distribution of underlying modifications to the content, so it would be ideal to measure it on actual examples of the relevant sorts of censorship in the wild; alas, not many suitable datasets seem to exist.
Anybody have any good ideas?
22:41 UTC
Farage tells Musk: Take down terror videos watched by Southport killer
Farage tells Musk: Take down terror videos watched by Southport killer
The Reform UK leader has called for ‘all terrorist material’, including a video accessed by Axel Rudakubana, to be pulled from X
Nigel Farage has called on Elon Musk to remove a terror video from X which was watched by Axel Rudakabuna shortly before he murdered three children.
The footage, which shows the violent stabbing of a bishop in Sydney in April 2024, is still available on the social media site despite repeated requests from authorities in both the UK and in Australia to have it taken down.
On Sunday, the Reform UK leader said “all terrorist material” should be removed from social media platforms, including the video which had been watched by the teenager before the Southport attack.
Mr Farage’s comments, made during a radio interview when asked about the video, risk a further rift with Mr Musk – the world’s richest man – who had been contemplating a multi-million pound donation to Reform.
Continues at link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/26/trump-sweeping-tariffs-colombia-deportation/
non-paywalled
https://archive.ph/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/26/farage-musk-x-remove-terror-videos-southport-killer-watched/
21:52 UTC
A good rule of thumb
19:16 UTC
The impact of the left's censorship
16:27 UTC
Did you know the world was protesting against Trump or was that news hidden from you?
10:52 UTC
You are not allowed to search for info about the Nashville shooter on X.
02:49 UTC
Censorship : Meteorologist fired for speaking out and calling Musk a Nazi
00:34 UTC
Free speech violations
20:12 UTC
AOC reveals the "national security case" evidence for banning tiktok was unconvincing to many in the House including House Foreign Affairs Cmte. @ 1:30
13:55 UTC
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