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
/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.