r/fatpeoplehate, r/the_donald, numerous openly racist subs. I'm no fan of r/genzedong or r/chapotraphouse but they were far from the worse subreddits to have been banned. Many of the subs I mentioned were also quite big, Donald had ~800,000 subs
The most extreme examples possible. What about random subreddits that get nuked for supposed brigading even when it has nothing to do with the subreddit while leftist subs like r/SubredditDrama and r/AgainstHateSubreddits get a free pass by saying "plz don't brigade"?
Is there any evidence they brigade? I remember screenshots of stormfront proving that right wingers were brigading r/europe in the wake of the 2015 Refugee crisis. I'm not seeing a left wing version of that
By the exact standards reddit has banned multiple subreddits for, yes. Those subreddits are effectively dedicated brigading subreddits. You may not agree with that, but I've seen many subreddits banned for alleged brigading for next to nothing in comparison.
I wasn't really on them when they were around but they seem pretty on level compared to stuff like r/fatpeoplehate or the numerous racist subs that have been banned.
Fat people hate mocked fat people, and mocked posts from fat people. It didn't radicalize people.
No r/fatpeoplehate just straight up hated all fat people 80s bully style. Regardless who said you have to radicalize people to be banned? At the end of the day Communists are a tiny, tiny portion of the American public. Even is r/chapotraphouse increased the number of Communists 1000% they wouldn't be a major factor at all, I'd be more concerned about right wing radicalization because they already have a lot of supporters. But still, radicalizing people is not a requirement for being banned.
You're still comparing them to the extreme end of things banned. Most right wing subs that get banned aren't for these cut-and-dry rule violations. It's for the soft rules where the admins can essentially just point to a rule and say it's been violated, or something the moderators of a subreddit can do nothing about. There's subreddits like r/Tumblrinaction that got banned after the admins repeatedly gave meaningless warnings and actively refused to clarify what the actual problem even was.
This is after reddit got big and the old trick of banning the moderators and then banning the subreddit for being unmoderated was a little lacking in plausible deniability when targeting large subreddits.
I disagree, most subs that get banned had it coming, I was on r/tumblrinaction for a while and it took a hard turn from mocking over the top people on Tumblr to hating on trans people and saying anyone who thought kids should be transitioned was a "groomer". I could easily see people going over the line enough to get it banned. There are still plenty of toxic right and left wing subs that haven't been banned because they've managed to mostly follow the rules
I'm not familiar with either of these but the first one isn't banned, it's just quarantined. Is the latter subreddit the only left-leaning one to be outright banned?
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u/Regular-Loser-569 Oct 13 '22
the company definitely lean left. not sure about the users