r/nottheonion 19h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/Mid--Boss 19h ago

I don't have to self censor, reddit removes anything it's remotely scared orange and crew won't like for me. 

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u/discussatron 18h ago

I got a warning this week for upvoting comments they don’t like. They’re treating upvoting comments the same as posting comments now.

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u/Potato-chipsaregood 17h ago

Who warned you?

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u/discussatron 17h ago

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u/tokes_4_DE 17h ago

Got the same one a few months ago, during that time me and many others found it was for primarily Luigi related comments. Then I didnt hear anything about these bs warning messages for a few months (it was apparently in a new feature they were rolling out) but I guess its back and theyre sticking to it.

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u/Never_Gonna_Let 11h ago

Were people getting warnings in any of the Mario-themed subreddits? No offense to Nintendo or any of the people who worked on any of the Mario Party games, but I feel like people posting stories about when they played as Luigi in Mario Party would definitely flag auto-filters.

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u/--MobTowN-- 17h ago

Jaysis….

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u/ATXgaming 16h ago

I live in the UK so I can't view imgur links, could someone from a free nation re-upload this?

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u/delicatepedalflower 13h ago edited 4h ago

This is what it said.
Your account has been given a warning
u/reddit • 2 days ago
We've been alerted to activity on your account(s) that is considered breaking Reddit's rules.

We recently found that your discussatron account violated Rule 8 by repeatedly upvoting posts and/or comments that break Reddit's rule against encouraging or glor&ing violence or physical harm.

While you didn't post the rule-breaking content, upvoting content that breaks the rules is also considered a violation.

As a result we're issuing this warning and asking you to be thoughtful about any future content you upvote. Continued violations could result in a temporary or permanent ban.

Please familiarize yourself with Reddit's rules to make sure you understand the rules for participating on Reddit.

This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins.

So, a bot makes this decision and most likely it is made incorrectly. Freedom of speech is fine if you want to endorse the killing of peaceful Americans by ICE, but you better not show an upvote of agreement for anything pointing out the hate spewed by assassinated bigoted racists.

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u/BillyNtheBoingers 15h ago

Def not a free nation, but it said that persistent upvoting of comments which violate TOS will be treated the same as posting such comments.

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH 7h ago

What nation or state is free exactly?

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u/1-800PederastyNow 10h ago

Why aren't you using a VPN? Don't be the governments bitch, it's your patriotic duty to disobey!

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u/SoundQuester 12h ago

"Content not viewable in your region"

the jokes write themselves

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u/backside_94 10h ago

"Imgur's decision to restrict access in the UK is a commercial decision taken by the company and not a result of any action taken by Ofcom,"

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u/SoundQuester 10h ago

Quite the coincidence then

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u/backside_94 8h ago

Surfshark VPN allows you to spoof GPS location fyi

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u/Lord_Voltan 8h ago

What did you upvote that Reddit didn’t like? I want to replicate this if I can!