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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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