While X and Facebook have become platforms more devoted to free speech (largely; some issues persist and we won't ignore that when they arise), other social media sites are not so friendly to free speech.
Reddit, however, is not a place where users can speak their mind. Especially when it comes to Elon Musk, apparently.
Reddit continues to be anti-free speech.
— Cedric Hohnstadt (@cedrichohnstadt) January 30, 2025
I just got a lifetime ban from the "comics" subreddit. Yesterday I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be… pic.twitter.com/TJloKKWRo3
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I just got a lifetime ban from the 'comics' subreddit. Yesterday I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be shared because Musk gave a Nazi salute. I commented saying no he didn't. The moderator accused me of being pro-Nazi, banned me permanently for life, and deleted all my past posts from the 'comics' subreddit.
But somehow Elon Musk is the totalitarian?
The irony is lost on the Reddit mods who banned Cedric.
Lunatics.
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) January 31, 2025
You've gained a follower here though. 👊🏾
Lunatics is putting it mildly. We've seen some of those subreddits.
I quietly unsubscribed from all the subreddits I followed a while back. No intentions of returning. The rot there is institution-wide and there is no saving it. It's not even worth concern.
— Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties (@El__Bohemio) January 31, 2025
The only way to win the game is to not play.
All is proceeding as has been foretold. pic.twitter.com/11rWJyEHq3
— Bruce F. Webster (@bfwebster) January 31, 2025
Heh.
Speech Nazis run Reddit. pic.twitter.com/40UnEaMzmi
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 31, 2025
They sure do.
Facebook may be launching a jihad against X too. I posted this joke / meme from X & Facebook dinged it for ‘nudity & sexual activity’. If that’s their idea of sexual activity, they’ve got some major kink issues. https://t.co/KgoEzoOmSB pic.twitter.com/olKoU8m5n5
— marypmadigan 🚀 (@marypmadigan) January 31, 2025
Facebook has been weird about memes and pictures for a while. A picture of this writer's cat got flagged once, and it was completely harmless.
Old enough to remember when @Reddit was about free speech. https://t.co/XzS5PZUPOQ
— Carl Gottlieb (@c_cgottlieb) January 31, 2025
Then Leftists took over and ruined it. As they always do.
Reddit is a totalitarian leftist echo chamber. Same as Bluesky. https://t.co/fQUF8DsTHG
— trod roughshod 🇮🇱 (@TrodRoughshod) January 31, 2025
They're only good for mining content and mocking Lefties.
The fact that non-political Subreddits were forced to join this says numbers about the site as a whole. Who's the Nazi dictator now? Sure isn't Elon Musk. https://t.co/NxlResBb51
— Handcup Official (@HandcupOfficial) January 31, 2025
The Left injects politics into everything and it needs to stop. Sometimes we just want things to be politics-free. Some things NEED to be politics-free.
Elon Musk himself weighed in on this, too:
This is insane https://t.co/d5GEBRns4p
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 31, 2025
Yes. Yes it is.
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