The uncensored news on Reddit has been censored

I heard Media Matters is really good.

What exactly made this uncensored news?

Just a bunch of opinion pieces from posters?

Just pulling your chain

Hope everyone your way is doing well....

Reddit IOOC

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What exactly made this uncensored news? 

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It was a front/recruiting tool for White supremacist organizations.

The thread that got them banned involved the OP calling Muslims "disgusting 1/2 human pieces of trash." In response, another redditor accused the OP of being part of the Jewish "criminal mafia" and threatened to hunt him down and murder him in revenge for all the atrocities the Jews have committed. Later in the thread, someone else called for all "Jews and crypto-Jews" who exhibit "parasitic behavior" to be executed.

As you can see, what was clearly a valuable forum for entirely legitimate but underrepresented viewpoints has been shuttered by the heavy hand of our overly-PC culture.

Well, either that or the mods of a privately owned website decided it would be bad for business to become known as a place where neo-Nazi hate threads about the subhumanity Muslims turn into calls for the mass murder of Jews. I guess it depends which reality you buy into.

if they deleted every subreddit that had threads that degraded conservatives the website would cease to exist

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There's a lot of difference between insulting people based on their political beliefs and calling for people to be hunted down and murdered due to their ethnicity.

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So why not just ban those users instead of the entire subreddit? I saw a thread on r/politics where it was a bunch of snowflakes making plans for a civil war and joking about the assassination of a sitting president. Death, taxes, and crazy arse people on the internet are the inevitabilities of modern life.

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1. Because it's a privately owned website and you're free to ban whoever you want, particularly people who are generating negative publicity for your business by using it to spread Neo-Nazism.

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I never said they didn't have the right to do it, merely pointing out the examples you listed were used as justification for what their larger goal is (i.e. to shut down the as many voices on the right as possible) since similar consequences are never really enforced on the opposite side of the political spectrum

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2. Because in some cases, inciting and organizing violence can be the entire purpose of a subreddit.

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Oh kind of like r/antifa which is somehow allowed to still exist despite the fact they are a borderline domestic terrorist organization?

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Banning users of these subreddits one at a time would be the equivalent of renting out your banquet hall to the American Nazi Party and then making an announcement that anyone making racist remarks will be asked to leave while the meeting continues.

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Yeah with analogies like this I can definitely tell you post on reddit

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I never said they didn't have the right to do it, merely pointing out the examples you listed were used as justification for what their larger goal is (i.e. to shut down the as many voices on the right as possible) since similar consequences are never really enforced on the opposite side of the political spectrum 

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If that's their goal, then why are subreddits with names like "conservative", "the Donald", "libertarian", "capitalism", "immigration reform" and many others allowed to continue? The line isn't drawn against conservatism, it's drawn against threatening to murder people, which I think is pretty reasonable.

BTW, I've never considered fringe ideas like White nationalism a part of conservatism, but maybe that's changed. To me, being a conservative means you don't want tax increases to fund after school programs or that you don't want someone's permit to build a new factory blocked in order to preserve an endangered snail, not that you want to "physically remove" your neighbor for being a different race.

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Oh kind of like r/antifa which is somehow allowed to still exist despite the fact they are a borderline domestic terrorist organization? 

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R/antifa is literally an anti-Antifa community. Seriously. Look at it.

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Yeah with analogies like this I can definitely tell you post on reddit

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You'd have a point if I was calling people Nazis for wanting immigration laws enforced or criticizing BLM or something. The thing is, I'm referring to people as Nazis because they are active in White nationalist movements and mod communities like "traditional wives," which partly defines being a traditional wife as "not a race traitor." If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc.