You should hope that your views (or more accurately, their views) never stray from it and the information that a tiny group of people are controlling is good for the entire population.
You could say just use another subreddit. But this isn't limited to one.
It's hard for me to believe these are made up stories. And, it appears that such stories are currently only being told via conservative media. Please correct me if I am wrong.
This is of interest to me because the US holds that words are not equal to violence, with the only exception being the emergency principle. According to Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU from 1991-2008, the emergency test says speech may be punishable "if, in context, it directly causes specific imminent serious harm." [6] If groups are successfully convincing people otherwise, then it may mean we are forgetting what free speech is. Free speech, the US version anyway, draws the line at violence, not words.
[1] https://archive.ph/1NeiV#selection-1513.7-1513.57
[2] https://corinnacohn.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-need...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQr6WZXHSQ
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSKBVHrizo
[5] https://youtu.be/STE1pmCjULQ?t=2047
[6] https://books.google.com/books?&hl=en&id=whBQDwAAQBAJ&q=in+c...
It's another point of view on an issue that I'd only previously seen presented from one perspective. That's why I found it to be so interesting. I was shocked to hear it because I had no prior understanding that anything untoward was going on. Question for you, what do you think about Keira Bell's story?
Perfect for when you don't have the balls to directly call what the person is saying wrong or bad. Ad hominem 101.
More important than the content of speech in social media moderation is the behavior. You demonstrate bad behavior here.
No, this is only the second time I've discussed the gender/trans issue. My comments generally get moderated for containing links to Reveddit.
> More important than the content of speech in social media moderation is the behavior. You demonstrate bad behavior here.
What is the bad behavior to which you are referring?
Particularly when there's some circumstantial evidence that Ghislaine Maxwell used to be one of those mods: https://old.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/rrldd9/to... (skeptical link, but even here you can see that it's plausible)
There are plenty of reasons why a subreddit like r/science is fine for people, not just the fact that they have a "very narrow Overton window". Maybe it's because we understand that this particular subreddit does not conform to the usual agora of discussion that reddit is known for and just shows a list of maybe interesting science papers/articles and clarifications on them from people in the domain. I may disagree with some of the ideas put forward but I can be an adult about it and not jump to the conclusion that there's a cabal of "big science" that is trying to brainwash me.
I didn't find what was written to be mean. Eleanor Roosevelt said,
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
If you feel sad, that's fine, I just want to point out that this is a choice we all make. Sometimes there is wide agreement on what constitutes offense, and we use this to justify the secret removal of other people's content. But offense is inherently subjective, and such secretive removals rob us of chances to sharpen our counter speech. Rather than trying to make perceived hateful conversations secretly disappear, I think we are better off allowing each other to prepare counter arguments to offensive speech.
Even more awesome to have this happen with a dormitory IP. /s
What it is not is a place where laymen like me and (probably you) can debate the veracity of said science. I don't give a toss about which science articles are posted there and if they agree with my world view as long as the curation and moderation is consistent with the principles described in the subreddit's rules. In my opinion is fine to not have an opinion or comment even if someone on the internet is wrong - present time excluded. :P
Have you looked at any of the top threads on Reveddit/Unddit with 75% of the comments gone?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how it goes way, way beyond those rules you just listed, into something that can only be described as a petty dictatorship - but with any hundred angry nerds who happened to show up playing the dictator.
Zero transparency, zero due process, no one cares.
This sort of excuse (blindly believing all that matters is "just don't be an asshole on the internet and you have nothing to worry about", "just follow the rules on the sidebar") is exactly how this sort of thing happens and no one bothers to look into it. If Reddit had a button to list the comments arbitrarily removed (like Google shows DMCA request removals) you can be sure the outrage would be 100x and those sidebar rules would seem meaningless besides maybe 20% of the time.
I chose r/science because that's a topic that typically prides itself on caring about finding the truth, not about satisfying the ideological whims of the gatekeepers.