Edit: Oops, it is /r/Tennessee, not /r/ProgressiveHQ

  • amniotic druid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Tennessean here who tried to organize on my state/city subreddits. Can confirm this kind of partisan censorship is not new.

    A while ago I made a innocuous enough post on my city’s sub about a “Release the Epstein Files” billboard that went up and was paid for by our local Mobilize chapter. Within an hour it was the most upvoted post of the past month. Within 2, it was removed without reason and I was blocked and banned permantly

    • RustyShackleford@piefed.social
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      3 months ago

      That’s Reddit, I was banned from a Pokemon Go subreddit for being against Niantic forcibly leaving their sandbox environment on iOS.

      • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        I was banned from Reddit by Reddit for calling out a shill. And then they censored my post and deleted it from my data request so that it was impossible to prove I wasn’t inciting violence. That whole place is fucked.

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          3 months ago

          It sounds exactly like the behavior of Reddit moderators. The entire platform was a form of hidden marketing; if anyone discovered it, they would flag or ban you.

      • AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Super curious about the Pokemon Go thing, wasn’t able to find anything on Google though. Could you tell what to search or share a link? Thanks <3

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          3 months ago

          Reddit mostly cleared that up by deleting the posts, and banning the users. They couldn’t risk looking like they did anything wrong, like working alongside a company to check for running apps on iOS, when it’s specifically designed to be sandboxed. Not surprisingly, other users discovered Apple was turning a blind eye to the attempts to check systems memory for hooks.