r/politics - Staggering Number of Hysterectomies Happening at ICE Facility, Whistleblower Say
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It's newsworthy for Yahoo, Vice, The Guardian, MSN, Business Insider, but I guess it doesn't meet the rigorous journalistic standards of...a news or politics subreddit...

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worldnews mods permanently banned me for posting this story

This is probably coming down from the admins then.

This has got to be coming from the reddit admins. And my guess is that there's something above them calling the shots too.

I'll also just leave this completely unrelated link here .

    • sexywheat [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Well here's the thing, they did . The initial post had 26,000+ upvotes and tonnes of comments, people were incensed by the story and totally outraged.

      Then it got removed. And then posted again, and removed again.

      The mods are giving clearly bullshit reasons, so this has got to be coming from above.

      I can't see the Reddit admins really giving a shit about it, in fact they're probably happy to use it as anti-Trump fodder. So given how much anti-China propaganda that has been on Reddit fucking constantly over the last while, I can't help but think that Reddit is being used to manufacture consent from above. How high it goes is anybody's guess.

      • disco [any]
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        4 years ago

        It's on the top page of /r/news/ and rising currently so idk if I'd blame the admins on this one.

          • disco [any]
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            4 years ago

            There are no defaults anymore, but this shit was absolutely getting suppressed in politics (although a story about it is currently the top post there) there’s a post on antifascistsofreddit with a user’s discussion with the mods in there.

            The compare the forced sterilization of an ethnic minority to Obama wearing a tan suit. Not kidding.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            There are no default subs. Haven't been for a long time now.

    • TemporalMembrane [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      The libs mostly have on /r/neoliberal and /r/politics and a bunch of others, I don't know why they aren't picking up on it harder... it's always possible the guy doing the hysterectomies was hired under Obama. Or maybe they're worried that it could be tied to them because of decisions made during the Obama/Biden admin wrt keeping migrant kids in cages.