They are free to enact censorship, you could say. And users are free to identify where that censorship has taken place, react to it and let it inform our opinion or use of reddit.

What is an example of censorship that should shape my opinion?

I've only ever seen bigots who think transgendered people are icky and can't stop being "ironic" about it getting "censored".

And we're free to call out their hypocrisy (in selective application of censorship)

Kicking someone off your platform for calling everyone a "leftist cuck" or some other bigoted "ironic" comment is not hypocrisy.

It is basic human decency.

Do you have an example of someone who was "censored" inappropriately?

The accusation is in the other direction, that some people aren't being censored despite saying equally obnoxious things. I've seen quite a few popular and non-censored Reddit comments talking about "Rethuglicans", or explaining that huge swaths of the population are irredeemably evil.

Do you have any evidence any sub was banned for the opposite equivalent of "Democraps" or whatever? This feels like a strawman without evidence that people were banned selectively.

I was taking it on faith that the comment I was responding to was correct and people are banned for just saying "leftist cucks". If that's not true then that changes things.

They have nothing.

I can cite the recent "Conservative Bigots v. Twitter and others" cases, every single thread of political philosophy from anarchism to totalitarianism in which private property is allowed, and the terms of service that people agree to when using an online resource...

...and all they can do is wave their hands and chant "censorship".

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Mocking the southern accent?

Interesting how you think making your point must include brash classism.

Strangely enough, I think it also wrong to refer to people with southern accents as "oxy-addicted incesty bigoted white trash".

That said, there is a difference between thinking something wrong, and thinking something should be banned - esp when you conflate censorship of an individual within a community (HN poster), with censorship of the whole community itself (a subreddit).

Are you calling me a techbro because I'm posting on HN? Doesn't that mean you are too?