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We were inciting violence against long dead historical figures. That's the official reason. In reality reddit has consistently b& subreddits which turn a critical lens on the rest of the site.

The earliest one I can remember being a part of was the r/shitredditsays community which helped expose a bunch of child porn adjacent and other gross communities and misanthropic power users. Nothing was done about these communities until the efforts of r/SRS to shed light on them were picked up by more mainstream media platforms. This resulted in the questionable communities being banned (they mostly just popped back up under different names) and also the r/SRS subreddit network being banned.

Reddit will tolerate circlejerk and drama communities, but once people actually take intra-site activism seriously they shut that shit down ASAP every time because advertisers tend to recoil in horror once they learn what the platform actually hosts.

The dynamics are a bit different these days now that platforms are being co-opted by well funded political parties and their subsidiary support orgs.

Kill ALL slave owners john brown did nothing wrong

it was saying that it was good to kill slave owners and that john brown did nothing wrong. and not removing posts that said that even though reddit told the mods that they had to take it down cuz it was "violent rhetoric."

/r/cth was the only subreddit openly cheering the George Floyd uprising and subsequent race riots; we had dope pictures of the precinct and cars going up in flames.

It didn’t help as a mod, I’d re-approve removed comments which I thought did not deserve it. 😅

r/cth had gained some amount of notoriety in the public eye years before even the quarantine. It was a meme that the subreddit was more popular than the podcast.

I went digging and here were some posts from the r/cth mods when communicating about the quarantine.

August 2019: 3 weeks ago the admin sodypop sent us a warning. Here’s the text of my response that never got answered. The admins are disingenuous lib nerds.

September 2019: Announcement: Quarantine Appeal Sent

Before the quarantine there was a shadow war with r/TD. r/cth got sabotaged by r/TD sympathizers back in 2018 so brazenly it made Mother Jones

The moderators’ changes came two weeks ago, after a group of leftists users from the r/ChapoTrapHouse podcast subreddit had allegedly “brigaded” r/Libertarian. (“Brigading” is a Reddit term for when outside users come into a group to troll it by downvoting posts.) One of r/Libertarian’s moderators, Reddit user rightc0ast, and new moderators that rightc0ast brought on between December 6 and 7, argued that they needed to tighten the group’s laissez-faire rules to protect it from outside trolling.

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The subreddit’s users, along with posters in other libertarian subreddits like r/LibertarianUncensored and r/LibertarianPartyUSA, immediately decried the changes as a departure from libertarian ethos while calling attention to the background of users behind the change. Most of the five new moderators have a posting history showing them taking part in r/The_Donald, an infamous pro-Trump subreddit, and r/Physical_Removal, a subreddit dedicated to the idea of eventually forcibly removing liberals and leftists from society that was banned in 2017 for “posting content that incites violence.” Two of the moderators who helped engineer the changes—one has since been removed—had previously voiced support for the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and debated the merits of fascism.

Rightc0ast, who played a key role in taking over the group by inviting new allied moderators, has a particularly troubling trail of posts across Reddit. In August 2017, Rightc0ast promoted the then-upcoming Unite The Right white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. The white nationalist provocateur has also backed the idea of an ethnostate and supported the Fash The Nation podcast, which was created by a neo-Nazi blog. On Reddit, he was a moderator of r/The_Donald and a moderator of r/Physical_Removal.

My posts were just too good and it was making the deep state nervous

I remember the last post on there was a thread saying "if this place gets banned then thanks for being the only non-trans specific subr*ddit that actually gives a shit about us on this site" and then the sub got nuked

r/chapotraphouse was banned by the CIA

https://hexbear.net/post/56333?scrollToComments=false

A CIA op. Like literally a former CIA agent had just been brought in as a community manager.

Also this https://networkcontagion.us/reports/network-enabled-anarchy/

Take a drink every time you read "anarch-socialist extremism" and try not to die of alcohol poisoning.

If you ctrl f chapotraphouse you can see where we are mentioned.

It was popular and sorta leftist. As long as those two conditions existed it was doomed. If it were not banned for one particular post it would have been for another convenient or contrived reason.

banned r/The_Donald that day too. Reddit admins wanted to seem fair & balanced as if they hadn’t been profiting off of allowing several openly white nationalist hate subreddits to infest their platform for years until it was absolutely necessary to ban them to save their ad dollars and IPO prospects.

Yeah, it was me sorry. I finally posted hog and it was considered too hot for Reddit to handle so they banned me, and every sub i had ever posted in just to be sure. My B.

Saying slavers should get shot. Bunch of crybaby shitlibs reported us for "violent rhetoric" and reddit had to ban something on the left to seem even handed because it was banning the_Donald at the same time.

Calling for killing cops and slave owners, just based stuff.

We will never know the real reason.

The had to purge some nazi subreddits but they wanted to appear 'balanced' so they selected the most popular left wing subs and removed them as well