/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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/r/DeclineIntoCensorship
No, not the one about Puerto Rico being a floating pile of garbage. A few days ago, somebody on this sub remarked that I am skilled only at "telling dad jokes and being a clown"...so I wrote them a dad joke that I knew they'd hate. It wasn't my best joke, but I thought it'd make a few others smile so I attempted to post it elsewhere.
I cannot. Despite posting 100s of original jokes over the years, many dozens of which were considerably more off-color than this one, this is the first time I simply cannot post the joke anywhere. It is automatically censored before a single eyeball sees it, in every one of the dozen or so joke-sharing places I have tried to post.
Most of you will hate this joke. But I'm telling it anyway, and I'm telling it to you because apparently the rest of the Internet considers it thoughtcrime:
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential race, says he won the 2020 race, and is confident he'll win the 2024 race. How does Donald consistently win every single race he participates in? >!Simple: Donald is the fastest candidate--sorry, fascist! Donald is the fascist candidate. Fuckin' autocorrect.!<
Seriously, of all the things to censor...this?! We're all fucked.
watch the podcast here: https://youtu.be/hBMoPUAeLnY?si=fDOvd9lj-9MCL7Bp