Reddit censorship in action: two screenshots of the top of r/all on my phone, taken just minutes apart (12:34 and 12:40 PST) -- spot the difference! : reddit

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Reddit censorship in action: two screenshots of the top of r/all on my phone, taken just minutes apart (12:34 and 12:40 PST) -- spot the difference! (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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Screenshots of reddit.com/r/all on mobile as it appeared immediately after loading (did not scroll), taken at 12:34 and 12:40 PST; look what suddenly disappeared from the #1 post spot! That's a rather specific "server error"...

I happened to take the first screenshot (12:34) because I thought it was suspicious enough that they were suddenly dealing with an unspecified "error" right as bad news about the site hit the top of r/all. Then a few minutes later (~12:38) the site didn't load at all. A few minutes after that, the bad press post is gone from r/all. If you go to the post now (https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jl6smd/elon_musk_pressured_reddits_ceo_on_content/), it says "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/politics" (marked as "off-topic").

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 80 points 9 months ago

Elon is a pseudo cabinet member, laughable to consider this off topic.

[+] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol, do I wanna know why you were banned from Dandadan?

[+] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] witnessbolt@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him...show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he receives a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that."

https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

The article is actually much more damning and urgent than this, but I don't want to seem too off topic.

They've all been brainwashed into believing the propaganda (globalist!!11!!1) or are tuned out of politics entirely

Dark times

[+] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] witnessbolt@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Some key quotes:

“What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

"Bezmenov described this process as “a great brainwashing” that has four basic stages. The first stage is called “demoralization” which takes from 15 to 20 years to achieve...minimum number of years it takes to re-educate one generation of students that is normally exposed to the ideology of its country — in other words, the time it takes to change what the people are thinking."

"Once demoralization is completed, the second stage of ideological brainwashing is “destabilization”. During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it."

"The third stage would be “crisis.” It would take only up to six weeks to send a country into crisis, explained Bezmenov. The crisis would bring “a violent change of power, structure, and economy” and will be followed by the last stage, “normalization.” That’s when your country is basically taken over, living under a new ideology and reality."

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago

Eventually the comic will be removed too

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

At this point, being banned from reddit is a badge of honour.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 9 months ago

I'm honoured to be near you.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still have 3 unbanned, high karma accounts that I don't use anymore. One day I might need them to do a thing.

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[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago

Dang, I removed my account before the bans started flying.

I did have to re-delete a lot of comments very often, and then the bulk deletion app was suddenly enshittified

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

I still get on reddit, but I just read I don't vote or contribute in any way. I noticed today that anything critical of trump or his administration was having a difficult time loading, but yet non-trump related content loaded just fine.

Totally not suspicious.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

ive seen that happen before, on the anniversary of 9/11 a few years back, some guy posted a video of the retaliatory bombings, and it was removed pretty quick just like this. no trace.

[–] lasange@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Write a review of Reddit on the App Store saying about people being silenced. Reddit can’t remove it unless you write something offensive

[–] justsquigglez@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

I had already deleted my reddit apps on my phone and such before switching over to Lemmy. But now that I see Muskrat directly going after reddit similarly to how he did with Twitter, I went ahead and deleted all my accounts. Fuck that place.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reddit hides posts you’ve already viewed

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That, along with hide on up or downvote, is a account setting, and iirc isn't on by default.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I believe the algorithm skips already seen posts so that you don't see them again, whether this is on or off

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[–] False@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jl7jtp/elon_musk_pressured_reddits_ceo_on_content/

I saw this in the 4th spot on r/all.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I couldn't find it going over all's history, but I did find this fucking funny one. Musk is desperate and over-leveraged. The double finger "gun" is hilarious.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1jlhf0k/elon_musk_asserts_the_administration_is_going_to/

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

It has gotten more & more tame & lame over there as the bots take over.

[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I scoured every pixel on every panel of that comic for several minutes OP.

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That error means you're shadowbanned. Try opening your profile in incognito it might be suspended

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's not showing the error now so shrug. Also the account I'm logged in as has engaged in zero activity (no comments, no voting, just lurking) in almost a year, so I don't know what I'd have suddenly been shadowbanned for.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you using Firefox?

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago

I get these errors too. You're not shadowbanned.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Are you on VPN? If not, they have your IP address. They probably have a device signature as well.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No it doesn't. It happens a lot if you do not use the mobile app. I have a mod account there and my interactions are heard regardless of this error. It might be a FF thing.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No it doesn’t. I got this error earlier on a random web search in private mode, not logged in.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Server errors are nothing new for reddit

[–] StewieB@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

It happen to me as well.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Literally standard server errors man

[–] Puzzlehead@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I got mysteriously site wide banned without any warning. Only been warned once on the platform and never been suspended. I believed I was following the reddit TOS and guidelines but was banned for "violating "multiple rules."

I have never been alerted about it by reddit ever what content of mine violated their site wide rules. I hope the admins here are more fair and actually respond to requests than using AI and algorithm and ignoring requests about wrongful suspension.

Did reddit team just start to hand out banhammers to accounts randomly? My alt was banned and then my main one was banned hours later. It was just a generic message not really telling me what content of mine violated their site wide rules.

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[–] Apple87sagan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Im having trouble even getting to reddit. I also left when I noticed they were censoring real news.

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[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I made a post on antiwork yesterday about all the additional comments underneath the top comments that just don't exist when you go to expand them. Made a screen grab video of it. In one case it said there were 48 comments but you open them and nothing then you scroll to the end it said 458 comments and there were like maybe 40-50 it’s ridiculous what a corporate bootlicking shithole reddit now obviously is. At least it was better hidden before.

[–] ResolverOshawott@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Edit: I mistakenly thought the post was about the comics in the screenshot, my bad.

Your post got removed probably because it presumably violated Rule 14 of the subreddit on their disallowed submission types.

"Disallowed submission types

/r/Politics is a serious political discussion forum. To facilitate that type of discussion, all submissions must be articles, videos or sound clips. The following are also disallowed:

Satire or humor pieces. These submissions are better suited to /r/PoliticalHumor. Political cartoons can be posted in the Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread.

Links that solicit users (Active petitions, signature campaigns, requests for money, surveys or polls).

Submissions that are user-generated content without editorial oversight (ex: C-SPAN clips, selfposts/textposts, reddit polls, any submissions with user created text)

Political advertisements as submissions. Advertisers should buy ad space on reddit.com if they wish to advertise on Reddit.

Submissions which are entirely a copy-paste of the original reporting, or that add one paragraph or less, with a "read more at" link to the original content. Articles or videos that add another take on a subject, or include different verbiage or context are otherwise allowed.

Live blogs/live threads/live articles"

That server error also happens occasionally on their app for basically no reason. It's not due to any post, I sometimes become unable to see my profile for like a minute before it goes back to normal.

I get and don't disagree that Reddit is pretty fucking shitty, but not everything has to be or is attributed to some sort of conspiracy on how everything is getting censored because of blah blah whatever. Oh, and breaking a subreddit's rules and getting your post removed or banned for it isn't censorship (waaaaaaaay too many people do this istg).

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Defend that shitpile all you'd like, I'm never going back.

[–] ResolverOshawott@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I'm not telling anyone to go back, buddy. I'm explaining the reasons why this and that happened. That it's not all due to some conspiracy b.s about censorship whatever.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Picture of reddit, server error. Obviously.

[–] dodgese@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

the article that was removed on the r/politics.. https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/637083/elon-musk-reddit-ceo-content-moderation

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