This was the comment that got me banned:
Things that were deleted by mods for being "off-topic"
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A WaPo article about a journalist being attacked by cops who then lied about it was removed by mods
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An article about how police spied on BLM protesters using a shady company removed by mods for being "off topic" link
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A WP article about a Supreme Court Justice's wife denouncing BLM is off topic, and was removed by mods
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Article about the cop who murdered George Floyd nearly murdering someone else earlier deleted by mods for being "off-topic"
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Article about Ramsey Orta, who filmed Eric Garner's murder, and was then attacked by the NYPD was removed for being off-topic
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Police Memo Says Officers Raiding A Journalist's Home Were Instructed To Turn Off Their Body Cameras was removed for being off-topic
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This NYT article about videos of police brutality removed by mods with 17K upvotes for being "off-topic"
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A terrorist attack that killed a BLM protester is considered "off-topic" by the mods, and was removed source
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This post about a spreadsheet of police brutality was removed by mods, then reinstated sneakily. This tactic effectively suppresses it, and people can't complain about it being removed because it's not. Smart.
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Police infringe upon a woman's free speech rights and arrest her for calling her parents "racist" on facebook Yeah, that post is also "off-topic", because policy repression about people complaining about racism has nothing to do with US politics. Mods removed that post for being off-topic
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Article about how NYT admits it lied about coup in Bolivia in an effort to support US intervention there is considered "off-topic" by mods, and is deleted
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Guardian article about peaceful violin protest removed by mods for being off-topic link
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Article about how NYPD gets away with gross civil rights abuses removed for being off topic source
Things that are considered "on topic" by the mods:
Thanks for your effort, I don't even want to shit on libs on reddit anymore.
i got perma banned from r/politics too a while back by trying to argue with the mods when they were mass removing any post about strikes also calling it "political but not politics", just fucking unbelievable how shit that place is. Literally something is apparently only politics if a politician talks about it.
https://imgur.com/a/SfvqP2f
I got banned based on an argument from a guy who openly bragged about not hiring people with bad credit. That whole site is right wing, just a different flavor than republican IG
Mark Hamill said Trump bad
He says that damn near daily, how is that news?
I wonder if their justification is radlib rhetoric about how "BLM isn't political sweetie" because "we can disagree on which politicians to vote for who systemically brutalize Black people but not about HUMAN RIGHTS like BLM".
There really isn't a disconnect between human rights and politics. That's lib shit. Every political/policy decision affects someone else, usually people at the bottom who are disproportionately brown and poor.
One of their dumbass mods once explained: state violence isn't "political" because politics is when celebrities say something about politicians on twitter or a politician says something stupid or snarky, not when systems created and supported by politicians have real, material consequences.
they made the electoralism channel but these dweebs don't know what that means
I mean the r/politics mods. One of them showed up to a thread on the old sub once and explained, and got thoroughly roasted for his trouble.
i meant the /r/politics mods too. i post too quickly and then edit or hope you'll get it anyway. i shouldve been more clear.
Literally every system, even individuals, affecting society are political
they've been saying that for a while. a note of optimism is that this was mainstream, now many libs are (uncomfortably) saying BLM with signs in their lawns
dont worry now that aoc talked about it its now considered politics lol
Send this to the admins.
Not because they'll do anything, but because reminding them of the shit they're doing is funny.
honestly, i think it's a waste of time. the admins are fash-adjacent, if not fash enablers. the best thing that happened to us is to move here
/r/politics branded itself to be the "trumpbad" subreddit so it pay the price when issues of a political nature get removed because it doesn't fit it's tabloid definition of "politics"
I don't think it's that simple
https://hexbear.net/post/22388
Back in 2017 I noticed that a lot of the well-sourced, anti-Trump anti-US news that was making headlines on r/politics, was also being censored from r/news and r/worldnews. Any article on r/politics will always be absent from r/news. They're basically two alternate realities.The reason is to shift mass opinion in two different directions.
I think that r/politics is now becoming as heavily censored as r/news always was. Probably because it's election time and cambridge analytica is paying them out the wazoo.
Or maybe they're just curating two different spaces, a chud space (r/news) and a lib space (r/politics) but they're trying to manage the lib space and prevent it from going too left.
Just replied this post to someone asking what it said, hopefully I get perma'd and have an excuse to stop posting there
Small world, I saw your post on Reddit this morning. I'll be plastering it all over that site after work.
yeah libs spent a lot of money decorating my post for the 30 minutes it lasted before it was scrubbed
I wonder how viable starting an /r/political would be. Spam it around Reddit a bit, and populate it with all the removed posts from /r/politics.
lots of people are pissed at the mods. this would be a good moment to strike
