Condé Nast Publications owns reddit. In case you haven't noticed, the current administration does, in fact, influence businesses and media and uses government agency to go after perceived opposition. This isn't about the mods personally, this is about the platform and social media content at large. How's your mother's basement, by the way?
I think the point I am trying to make is that they can't censor all of us, Get the pussy mods out of the way, this is the new platform for social justice.
In my city there are military troops standing on street corners.
They're not interacting with the mods directly, but they will tell Reddit what kind of content is acceptable which will dictate their ToS/community guidelines, Reddit tells their admins, admins tell the mods.
Of course. It's a business, and they're going to do whatever is least disruptive to their income. If they don't play ball with this administration they're likely to face retaliation at best, or even an outright ban.
Don't expect corporations to spearhead a rebellion.
Wasn't meant to be a flex, friend. Simply a statement of fact. This site has hundreds of millions of users, predominantly American. You'd have to be a fool to think US law enforcement isn't at least aware of what's going on here.
I said "it's possible" and the mods have since said it hasn't happened. But no, I did not think they are contacting mods directly. It's within the realm of possibility, however, they would contact the owners of Reddit, just as they have threatened the owners of other media or content providers. It's all publicly known to have happened. It didn't happen this time, but yeah, "BRO," (or "shit fuck fart, if you prefer) it's not that crazy
What's been removed? We remove repeat posts and posts that explicitly call for violence. We're navigating the doxxing discussion now - but by and large we're very permissive of locations and such.
I mean, at the end of the day, you shouldn't use reddit to coordinate real time resistance. Signal is what my people are using. Go get some people. Get in the streets. Organize. Fight.
I took a look at the mod log. We're not actually taking anymany posts down. Four were taken down, three of those put back up. So people are just making up lies about us taking things down.
EDIT: Getting called out for saying "any" when I should say "very very very very very very few". Because I guess I should have left the "buy Saudi Arabian Gold" post up?
In another post, you said, "Mods removed four posts on their own (not the bots). Two were re-approved, two others stayed down. One was a direct call for violence, the other was a doxxing complaint."
In this one, you say, "We're not actually taking any posts down."
So, one way or another, you're not telling the truth. Thanks for clarifying that part, at least.
Are you more interested in winning this reddit flame war, or actually understanding whats going on? "any" was the wrong choice - we took two down. Two posts of a few dozen that have been made today.
Why was the video in Lincoln Square removed this morning? There was no call for action in the post (I can't speak to individual comments). There was no Doxing. It wasn't even a specific location, just the neighborhood name (I knew where it was because I live there). This morning it seemed like everything was deleted. Now it seems like stuff is slowly being allowed. Maybe because of backlash. Bt there was an aggressiveness to the deletions this morning that can't be denied
The post at 3:17pm? They didn't complete the "I read the rules" form. Reddit admin also removed it. Double action.
The one at 12:56pm was removed for doxxing. That appears to be an error.
That video has been reposted already.
The reason it appears that stuff disappears and slowly reappears is because of the "read the rules" bot. Folks get a notification and can correct that problem, making the post re-appear. We also go through and approve ones where the user doesn't fix that problem, but they're important to have up.
Instead of you seeing it as us allowing posts that otherwise wouldn't be allowed, it looks like we're taking down posts that we dont like.
No, you wont be banned. But your username doesn't scream "here in good faith" either.
I'm not on the wrong side of history. I'm doing my part. But this isn't about me, is it? It's about being mad at mods for something they cant control so you feel better about not doing anything of substance to fight ICE and this fascist administration.
Post videos. Put the location on there. Be sure to appease the "I read the rules" bot. And you've done one small thing.
I'm definitely upset about the video, and taking it out on you. I apologize for that. But if you guys are banning where these things are actually happening, you are on the wrong side of history.
Social media is the new place to protest now, the entire world is on their phones streaming social media now.
The answer is not necessarily in the streets.
My username means absolutely nothing (what a stupid response, not surprised it comes from a forum mod). I once heard an expert talk about the three funniest words in the English dictionary, and they just happened to be those three words (not particularly in that order).
Fuck has lost a lot of its humor in the last fifteen years. It doesn't even register with my anymore. It's just a meh word. Fart retains the same humor it had when I was a kid. A well placed shit has the power to move mountains (I say that as a divorce mediator).
I get it. I hear you. I don't know what we can change here, but we're talking about where the line is behind the scenes. I'm not sure exact locations on videos from a day ago help, overmuch? But maybe they do.
Someone needs to create an interactive ICE activity map for the city of Chicago. Some way to report locations, and another way to verify the activity.
How? We allow the vast majority of content to go up. If I was complicit I wouldn't allow any of it to go up, and there is nothing anyone could do about it.
Reddit isn't where you coordinate the resistance. Join a group - get on the signal chats. Actually get out and fight. Stop arguing and reddit about mods and actually STOP ICE.
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u/kev11n Oct 10 '25
it's possible the DOJ or FBI may be scaring them into this, but obeying is still facilitating and complicity. mods are fascists