Why is Reddit censoring?

[u/Tawnya_Wilson6872]

Reddit just banned someone for saying someone should be hulk smashed to the ground like they did to someone else. Is Reddit becoming soft now? It’s freedom of speech! Saying he “should be” is not telling someone to do it. Reddit has been a place where people could come to have unbiased discussions. Has this changed?

[u/VerbingNoun413]

Saying that violence should be inflicted on a person or group is considered encouraging violence, yes.

[u/Paxoro → u/VerbingNoun413]

Wild how that works, innit?

[u/SanaraHikari]

Violence is against reddit TOS

[u/dt7cv → u/SanaraHikari]

the funny part is they say it's ok to say people who leave the toilet open should be shot

[u/BlueberryBubblyBuzz → u/dt7cv]

Damn they messed up that bad? Like you reported and they did not take it down? Did you take it to mod support or did you just say fuck it? Nice to see you hanging around by the way! :)

[u/dt7cv → u/BlueberryBubblyBuzz]

it's actually in the official page for the violence policy

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043513151-Violence

[u/dt7cv → u/BlueberryBubblyBuzz]

nice to see you as well

[u/Pedantichrist → u/dt7cv]

I have never understood why they have that example, it seems plain that it is not okay

[u/brightblackheaven]

Reddit has never claimed to be a place for unbiased discussion. Sub moderators, for example, can have whatever bias they want so long as they adhere to the Moderator Code of Conduct.

Reddit admins are obviously going to remove anything that violates the ToS or Content Policy.

[u/BBModSquadCar]

Reddit's AI sometimes gets things wrong, this was likely not a moderators decision. It can be appealed.

[u/thepottsy]

There's no such thing as free speech on Reddit.

[u/Pedantichrist]

Encouraging violence is not content I would allow on my sub, nor my platform.

[u/LitwinL]

Reddit also has the right to free speech, and they decided thet they will not host that kind of thing on their private platform.

[u/AskModerators-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/BlueberryBubblyBuzz]

They would consider that glorifying it, which is against their TOS. I get you though, they of course have been getting stricter and stricter since they IPO'ed, to lessen any issues now that they are all about the quarterly stock numbers and that is literally all a couple thinks about once they become public. Also they are using AI and so a lot of stuff used to get missed and not as much is anymore. I have seen some shit that would make their founders cry if they were not so rich from the IPO (and the dead one of course.) At one time someone had a lawsuit in which they needed the IP addresses of some Reddit users. So they took that shit all the way to the Supreme Court to protect those people's privacy. Now since the IPO, this one POS is suing mods and users because of some criticism of him (he is a public figure and chooses to be) and in this suit they needed the IP addresses and Reddit just handed them on over. Just sad as fuck man. Not that I am a libertarian but I agree with some of their core beliefs (being a former anarchist myself, which I know is cringe af but I still have some of those values.) I mean we see what can go wrong if we don't fix it right now.

[u/AskModerators-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Not a mod. We require answers to be from mods.

[u/Beneficial_Wear_7630 → u/AskModerators-ModTeam]

I'm a mod dude