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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by ethanwillis on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:36AM (#24679347)
It's interesting that your rationale is so similar to the same old propaganda. If you're going to make those claims you should source it, otherwise it's just a convenient way to dismiss this without really engaging.

  In 1987, Tottle published his controversial book as Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: 
  the Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard, in which he asserts that 
  claims the Holodomor was an intentional genocide are "fraudulent", and "a 
  creation of Nazi propagandists". [1]

  Russian publicist Yuri Mukhin has a published a book titled "Hysterical Women of 
  the Holodomor", dismissing Holodomor as "Russophobia" and "a trump card of the 
  Ukrainian Nazis." [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor#Dougla...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor#Denial...

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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by DavidVoid on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:52AM (#24679463)
I'm definitely not denying the Holodomor or any of Stalin's crimes. But unfortunately some of the people who are most adamant about spreading information about the Holdomor are not doing so to spread information about the atrocity, but rather to spread their own anti-semitic propaganda.

u/soccer was a moderator of r/911truth and, according to archived versions of their user page, posted quite a lot of links to "Israel did 9/11" conspiracy websites like https://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.

r/uncensorednews essentially did the same thing. It posed as an "unbiased" source of news but the sub's creator and top moderator was pretty clearly pushing his own neo-nazi views.

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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by ethanwillis on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:57AM (#24679507)
I'm going to take your claims at face value. Let's say this is all 100% correct. Maybe then the prudent action is not to ban a subreddit that is a valid topic, but instead to ban users who have a history of behavior that's not acceptable?

In fact, Reddit does ban users including u/soccer. To conflate r/911truth and r/Holodomor isn't fully honest.

Edit: Meanwhile this exists - http://reddit.com/r/stalindidnothingwrong

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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by saagarjha on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:41PM (#24680308)
That looks like a joke sub.
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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by ethanwillis on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:43PM (#24682126)
This looks like a joke comment. If you're not going to add anything please comment elsewhere.

It's not a joke sub there are people who legitimately believe this. And the point it's illustrating is that even if it's a "joke" some "jokes" are more well tolerated by Reddit than others. My original point is that there is definitely ideological biases at play in what is/is not bannable on reddit.

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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by saagarjha on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:24AM (#24685961)
No, when I say it’s a joke sub I really mean it’s a joke sub. Just like https://old.reddit.com/r/EmpireDidNothingWrong/. There might be people who actually believe that Stalin was a saint, but they’re not the ones posting memes about it.
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Re:Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a fou... by DavidVoid on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:34PM (#24680714)
I agree; r/Holodomor should not have been banned but should instead have had its moderators replaced.

That Stalin sub's creator and sole moderator is already banned btw, so I'm pretty sure they just missed banning the sub or something. And it hasn't had any activity in 7 months so at least it's not active.

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