I got banned from my city’s subreddit for calling out racism and within minutes was then banned 3 other Canadian subreddits.
The Russkies seem to have a stranglehold on our social media platforms
It’s so awesome seeing all these new people here bailing from reddit. Welcome!
Why I’m here on Lemmy now lol.
Which is why I’m here!
And that is why I’m here now. Hello fellow travellers!
That’s why I’m here.
So how do I go about finding some of these soon-to-be-banned posts? I want my old Reddit account to be part of the statistics 😁
It’s horrifying especially to think how Reddit never did anything about the fucked up things incels would say they wanted to do to underage girls and women, or the literally jailbait, racist, insanity they’d share. Basically that stuff was always okay, but if you want to defend yourself against your oppressor? Banned for upvoting despite you didn’t even think the comment was “bannable”.
Yeah, that’s why I’m here now. That site has just been getting shittier and shittier.
I got banned for responding to r/unpopularopinion something about prisons, and said people in prisons should work everyday 9-5, forced labour, no excuses etc. And someone responded that prisoners working would not be safe because other prisoners could easily attack other prisoners and harm them. And i was like yeah so if anyone attempts to do that, should be shot on sight. Basically warned before entering 9-5 work to be given instructions that attacking other inmates is wrong and you will be shot on sight if attacked other prisoner. So basically that was it. I got banned, because i wanted to make prisoners work like the rest of us, normal society who are not punished for prison time.
Finally made the jump. Reddit is a right-wing cesspool of censorship.
I barely used Reddit - good riddance, this is what spurred me to sign up here. The right wing infestation of social media is nasty.
So the user who posts it can be banned and then the entire comment tree and upvoters. Selectively removing people/entire groups they don’t want being visible and keep/promote the ones they do. AI trained on all of this to monitor the speech in real time. So basically no dissent ever being visible because it’s removed before anyone can see and the user banned before they can let anyone know, a mass silent cyber gag.
At least that’s how I see it being used. Here’s a picture of my dog though.
I just created a Lemmy account because of this stupid policy. Republicans/Conservatives can spew all manner of hate without consequence and we upvote “Elbows Up” (a hockey term BTW) and we get banned? Screw that.
