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Reddit Bans Users, Deletes Comments That Say Orlando Terrorist Was Muslim
![]() ![]() http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/12/reddit-bans-users-deletes-comments-that-say-orlando-terrorist-was-muslim/ Reddit moderators are actively banning users posting articles discussing Orlando nightclub terrorist Omar Mateen’s religion. User “moonsprite” shared a screenshot of an article he posted titled, “Orlando shooting suspect may have ‘leanings’ to Islamic extremism,” to the r/news subreddit. * This was not the only user.. Much More On Link* |
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the Great Whitewash has started,1984-Style!
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Never participated on Reddit....well, I tried once....seemed too...well, big and moved along way too fast for my old butt
![]() Maybe someone here has some experience there....do the mods just sit back and, well, mod? Or do they actively participate? Seems to me, if the latter is the case, some tendencies could form....for or against certain users. |
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Yup I was on Youtube come ting on how this guy was a fundamentalist muslim. Next thing I know, I get a Gmail,,, surprise surprise.... Your comets will be disabled until Further notice. Possible hateful comments. WTF
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Yup I was on Youtube come ting on how this guy was a fundamentalist muslim. Next thing I know, I get a Gmail,,, surprise surprise.... Your comets will be disabled until Further notice. Possible hateful comments. WTF |
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If a right leaning site were to start deleting comments supporting Islamic radicals there would be wide spread condemnation of them for
being anti free speech and their intolerance in the media. |
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the Great Whitewash has started,1984-Style! ![]() British first edition cover Author George Orwell Cover artist Michael Kennard Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction Published 8 June 1949, London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four/ ![]() ![]() |
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Never participated on Reddit....well, I tried once....seemed too...well, big and moved along way too fast for my old butt ![]() Maybe someone here has some experience there....do the mods just sit back and, well, mod? Or do they actively participate? Seems to me, if the latter is the case, some tendencies could form....for or against certain users. I use reddit a bit, not an expert, but it seems to me that moderation is subreddit specific. You might have one subreddit, like the feminists subreddits, which are very heavily moderated. Its all about group think and echo chamber, and anyone who disagrees is banned and posts are deleted immediately - *just* for having an unwanted opinion. Then you might have another subreddit in which the mods running it prefer to let anything and everything go. They will only remove spam and posts which explicitly break the law. If one of these 'anything goes' types of subreddits gets too crazy, then the upper management might step in. I could be wrong, but I think people are especially upset about the censorship in /r/news because its... you know... NEWS. Its not "feminist news" or "my look protected echo chamber news", its supposed to be general news - so many feel that the mods shouldn't treat it like their own little private party pushing their own political agendas. |
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If a right leaning site were to start deleting comments supporting Islamic radicals there would be wide spread condemnation of them for being anti free speech and their intolerance in the media. From what i've seen, the worst of the right wing sites do the least amount of censorship. They just laugh at the people who disagree with them. |
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Edited by
massagetrade
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Wed 06/15/16 02:11 PM
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During previous issues with censorship at reddit, many users who value free speech moved over to voat.co
This means there are fewer people left on reddit who are motivated to fight against the suppression of ideas on reddit |
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Never participated on Reddit....well, I tried once....seemed too...well, big and moved along way too fast for my old butt ![]() Maybe someone here has some experience there....do the mods just sit back and, well, mod? Or do they actively participate? Seems to me, if the latter is the case, some tendencies could form....for or against certain users. I use reddit a bit, not an expert, but it seems to me that moderation is subreddit specific. You might have one subreddit, like the feminists subreddits, which are very heavily moderated. Its all about group think and echo chamber, and anyone who disagrees is banned and posts are deleted immediately - *just* for having an unwanted opinion. Then you might have another subreddit in which the mods running it prefer to let anything and everything go. They will only remove spam and posts which explicitly break the law. If one of these 'anything goes' types of subreddits gets too crazy, then the upper management might step in. I could be wrong, but I think people are especially upset about the censorship in /r/news because its... you know... NEWS. Its not "feminist news" or "my look protected echo chamber news", its supposed to be general news - so many feel that the mods shouldn't treat it like their own little private party pushing their own political agendas. ![]() |
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