https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/oregon-senate-repu...
And it wasn't just two comments, and they weren't downvoted. Proof here https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddi...
It was the Oregon GOP rep that said [If you send the police to get us, send bachelors].
I think it’s a little more complicated than you make it out to be.
It’s a larger discussion of what can mods with a large subreddit be responsible for. Is it reasonable to assume that in a sub that is typically pro police that some users that posted comments get the sub shut down? If that is the standard, can we prove mediamatters didn’t make those posts to point to for effect?
Maybe you are right; but mediamatters is BEYOND extreme bias so let’s not use them as an authority, and there is clearly hypocrisy at Reddit if threats against police “were” a problem.
MediaMatters / ShareBlue wrote an article about how anti police the sub was referencing two downvoted but not deleted comments. The entire sub was always pro law and order.
Reddit put very heavy limits on the sub for that.
Which is pretty damn funny to me - because right now on every single popular sub there are “all cops are bastards”, “kill all police”, “the only good cop is a dead cop” in any thread that even sort of tangentially references police.
I don’t care much either way. But the massive hypocrisy is there. No one has the balls to say “we just don’t want this on our platform”.
A couple months after the quarantine, Reddit admins changed the reason on the disclaimer before entering from “anti police comments” to “rule breaking”.
It shows me the weak moral character of the people in charge... and why I don’t want these people getting to decide what is right and wrong.
Edit: initial warning, later chased for ambiguous “rule breaking” https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Scree...