cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3919416

Serious question, I don't recall what exactly it was.

  • allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]
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    9 hours ago

    What ultimately did us in was the nonce admins (spez et al.), their decision to ban /r/The_Donald, and the belief that they had to make a burnt offering of an infamous leftist sub as well, or else the site’s humors would become imbalanced, or something. At the time CTH had developed a reputation for such controversial takes as “kill slave owners,” jokes about assassinating elected officials (which were bowdlerized as “baseball” jokes, to no effect since they picked up on what “baseball” meant), saying “kill cops,” and (I think) brigading other subs?

    We were warned a few days before Armageddon. And then the rest is history.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    10 hours ago

    The head of reddit's censorship team is literally a CIA alumni. An extremely active leftist sub that wasn't self-defeatingly sectarian or a captured radlib tendency like the v**shites, and that terminally online enough to be shaping discourse in general wasn't something they could tolerate it.

    • Ambiwar [any]
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      10 hours ago

      You have a source on the CIA censorship thing? I'd like to know more.

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        8 hours ago

        There's this old effortpost explaining it all: https://hexbear.net/post/56333

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        9 hours ago

        I think they might be referring to this lady. She wasn't CIA but she was pretty close.

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  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    Advocating for the death of slave owners wrt John Brown, but it was tit-for-tat for /thedonald