As a socio-political platform Reddit is going down the drain in the last few weeks, with a lot of permabans meted out at anyone with posts considered “violent” by Reddit standards, especially comments regarding right-wing American political figures.

Keep the lights open, man.

Not just an email address and IP address, but also knowing what browser and even user behavior, and banning the alt account 30 minutes after the main account being permabanned. The fuck they were possibly using.

“Eh merde alors.”

The audacity of that asshat running the place, just to please an even bigger bastard by banning anyone insulting the world’s right-wingers and despots.

Appeal system is useless.

How it used to be old GSM phones like those from Nokia that were then the thing for the underworld.

And considering news headlines in the US right now, where certain sections of science are being suppressed, while others are promoted mainly for profit.

The only thing that EU has yet to stiff-arm on.

Not dead yet. Kicked out from spezland for just lurking.

Also, r/philippinesbad outing r/ph asshole posts and comments about controlling the lower classes.

In the subreddits that have anything to do with politics and/or lambasting right-wingers, any comment or post with even the mildest language criticizing a certain controversial personality now gets a fucking instaban. They don’t care how you defend yourself, a spade is a spade to them.

Otherwise some mods do tend to be on a powertrip.

Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.

I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.

I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.

Reddit wants to provide a service that people can use for free,

lol. Yeah, free but with conditions, as at the end of the day, it’s a privately-owned space and they’ll kick anyone out for using “violent language”.

You can’t – only way is to avoid all politically-charged subreddits. They’ll ban anyone using even remotely violent words to describe US current events, especially in large subs where US politics and news are discussed. You can’t even create a new account and use it immediately after a ban.

It’s really a chilling effect over there. I betcha they’re now using something new to supplant human moderators, and reactionaries are prowling the subs to flag anyone desecrating their idols.