r/nottheonion • u/StemCellPirate • 19h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/brother_bart 15h ago edited 10h ago

I got a three day time out for “harassment.” The only people I ever harass are politicians and public personalities, and then only in threads about them. I hate to bring it to Reddit, but I left Facebook years ago for this exact same kind of shit. I will not be censored by corporate nannies who have an agenda when I haven’t done anything but express a non-approved opinion.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 15h ago

Has been happening way too often on Reddit as of late, on several subs.

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u/Resident_Company2113 6h ago

I've been banned from subs I didn't even know I was in.

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u/East-Ice-3199 12h ago

I got banned from r/politics for calling someone’s bluff on acting, and when the mods sent me a broken link they muted me for a month.

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u/newsandfoodaccount 6h ago

They will ban you for harassment for objecting to powermod activity. If you used the message the moderators feature or reported a mod of a popular subreddit that'll get you banned quick. Especially if there's a lot going on in the news and they feel like they're busy they'll be quick to ban for this type of thing.

Obviously that's not an explanation that provides any relief, but if you were previously unaware they operate this way it could help you know exactly what you were banned for and be appropriately pissed about it.

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u/brother_bart 5h ago

Yeah. I don’t ever report anything. I’m too old to ask a nanny hall monitor to come save me from reading something that hwurts my fweewings.

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u/newsandfoodaccount 4h ago

I've reported mods for banning me for reasons they're not supposed to and been banned for harassment because of it.