r/conservative is also not a place for free speech. They ban people for asking questions.

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That’s what happened to me back in the day. Being young and naive, definitely picked up some things I had to undo and look back with cringe.

This is true to an extent, however from my experience, leftist subs are much more lenient on discourse if it isn’t blatantly abrasive or offensive or trolling.

In my experience while the amount of moderating done was comparable, the actual content that got removed was different.

In left spaces you would often see people with conservative opinions getting banned and deleted… After they started saying slurs or insulting people. Some people would argue that whether or not something is considered a slur or an insult is a difference in political opinion, but those kinds of things are already against the reddit site-wide rules so it’s moot.

In places like r/conservative, people would get banned for being aggressive and insulting people, but also for ever presenting an opinion that isn’t strictly in line with modern conservatism. The moderators of that subreddit used bans to remove any and all dissent no matter how severe or mild.

I feel like there’s a difference between being banned for “this country was built by immigrants” or “racism and nazis are bad” and “vaccines are Satan’s poison” and “trans people need to be eradicated”.

That sub in particular is just notable for banning people for even mild “offenses”. I found a post from it on r/all and asked a comment for a source on a claim they made and got permabanned for it calling me a troll.

That’s really only balanced truth if we’re comparing rank-and-file conservative subs with the most extreme alt-left subs that even most leftists avoided. If you gotta compare r/conservative to r/latestagecapitalism, that says everything.

The rest of the time, you got r/conservative banning people for “maybe Jews aren’t part of a conspiracy to kill everyone” comparing with r/liberals banning people for saying that they should be thrown out of a helecopter

Was it equal? I’ll take your word for it :-)

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The difference is you get banned from the conservative subreddits for questioning them about trivial bullshit and from the liberal subreddits for denying people their existence.

Reactionary contrarianism is basically the conservative’s signature move.

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

Again? The real nutballs went off to form patriots.win, after they hilariously lost their preferred domain name in an act of negligence (and/or ignorance.) I could see them pulling the same trick again, forming up a Lemmy node that no one else would federate with a 10’ pole.

I mean, I kind of appreciate the fact that the mods decided to do this, because they know very well how this’ll turn out. Letting such a rancid community out of leash while many of the wholesome communities are on a break is going to be a shitshow worth remembering, and just the kinda stuff that’s going to drop Reddit stock in the eyes of advertisers.

With corporate, appealing to morals or ethical conduct is usually pointless. Hitting their potential evaluation though…

Nobody will be there to call them out anymore. All the people with principles have left. I knew the right will see their opportunity to take over the ruins. So after twitter the second biggest social platform will become a right wing shithole. I’m not sure it should be left to those psychopaths. But since I have principles, I’ll delete my account by the end of the month.

it’s definitely gonna be some schrödinger’s asshole type stuff

I disagree. Us more tech-savvy people will come across, sure. But most people aren’t. And they have hobbies and jobs too, and want a place to gather online for that.

The fascists ability to appropriate cool things makes be so sad and frustrated. I love history and Roman history in particular. They are so familiar as humans but at the same time alien in their views if society and the world. Makes it really fascinating.

nazis poison everything they touch

I got banned because I called healthcare, daycare, education, and paternity leave “pro-life” measures.

Granted, I didn’t belong there, but I tried to regularly converse in good faith… which they never really deserved anyway.

I had something similar happen to me in r/republican. Pre-Trump, it actually wasn’t a bad subreddit. You could have relatively civil discussions in there. I often used it to see and ask how Republicans/Conservatives thought about various things. I always tried to be respectful, understanding that that the wasn’t “my sub.” I flaired myself with a ‘D’ or something so it’d be obvious that I wasn’t hiding and trolling. Had some OK discussions in there the few times I’d dare to chime in.

But it changed once Trump started running. I once was having a civil discussion with a user, trying to understand their take, and ended up linking to an article from a large, mainstream publication, to show what I was talking about.

I was banned with no comment. When I politely asked mods what I did wrong and if I could be unbanned if I promised to not do whatever I did again, I got the message: “Don’t link liberal sources.” And it wasn’t a liberal source! Just something not from Fox or wherever. From then on, I could lurk, but I could never comment.

And the mods got crazier. I’d see that they’d remove comments and ban anyone, even Republicans, who spoke out against Trump. At that point, there was no reason to go there anymore.

I’m impressed that you managed to find 6 posts that weren’t “flared users only.”

Oh, yeah. The subs that claim they never ban are the ones with the biggest ban hammers.

There used to be some really icky subreddit dedicated to… basically being a bunghole. “Public Health Watch”, I think. It was anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women, anti-just about everything. Everything was a threat to these poor little pseudo-incels (they couldn’t even be incels right). I forget how I stumbled on it, but one day one of them posted a link to a study that “proved” something about women and their sexuality and how it damaged men and I don’t remember clearly, but their conclusion was so stupid. So I read the damn study and it explicitly said the exact opposite of what they said. I replied with whole paragraphs from the study showing that the study said disagreed with what that post claimed. I was banned within minutes.

On the one hand, I kinda get it: I regularly deal with pseudoscientists who cherry pick through studies to find one or two sentences that agrees with them, instead of what the study actually says, and claim I’m “interpreting” the study wrong. On the other hand, when you’re the cherry-picker, you don’t get to be angry when someone else reads the rest of the words and finds out you’re the dimwit.

Do the opposite of what everyone else wants and then wonder why you’re not popular in elections. Not very bright, are they?

Or they’ll start a prayer circle in hopes that a benevolent billionaire will buy it and remove the site wide rules so they can really wallow in their own filth. Which is more likely considering their version of 4D chess is flipping the board and making claims of actually being the winner.