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A comment on Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits. Parent comment

Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:54PM (#24225382)
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.
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Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin... by james-mcelwain on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:02PM (#24225543)
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.
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Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:28PM (#24225895)
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.
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Re:Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after bannin... by kilo_bravo_3 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:11PM (#24225675)
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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