Just discovered that admins are removing resource-content on the subreddit. Both the DPRK and China megathreads that are in the sidebar have been removed, probably others too.
I doubt this is unique to only /r/communism, /r/communism101 is probably going to be hit as well.
I understand why they want to ban it, I don't understand the justification.
There is no justification. This content was silently removed and is showing on third party removal sites as "spam filter" which indicates reddit's admin team manually did it as the spam filter doesn't automatically remove old extremely popular posts.
I've reached out and asked the mod team but not yet received a response, doubt they will want to rush a any public response if they're now being targeted and want to try and keep the community.
Ah, I haven't seen a justification for it yet, not that they really need to give one. They did the chapo banwave with a "both sides" argument. What I can tell you is that the megathread was originally posted by one u/albanianbolshevik (see here) and that that account has been "suspended" (which I think means banned by the admins) see here. TBH for all we know, it could have simply been automatically removed due to the user's ban.
Content posted by banned users doesn't get removed when the user is banned.
Damn dude albanianbolshevik was a great poster.
Because, like the poster you dismissed said, it's uncovering imperialist lies.
Do you know what a justification is? Did the admins say "well, you see, we removed this content because it uncovered imperialist lies"?
Probably nothing, same with the "rule breaking content" they could never seem to directly point out in the old CTH sub. They don't give a shit.
Eh. We weren't really shy about breaking rules in CTH lol (which was cool). They had an excuse to ban us.