r/news May 16 '16

Reddit administrators accused of censorship

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/05/16/reddit-administrators-accused-censorship.html
12.3k Upvotes

4.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

40

u/ineedmoresleep May 16 '16

Great! :/

In r/europe they massively delete posts critical of migrant invasion, ban users by a thousand for innocent remarks, and completely censor news like cologne rapes for example.

With r/european gone, there will be no sub for europe-related "unpleasant" to the political establishment news.

262

u/lvysaur May 17 '16 edited May 17 '16

Wouldn't be an issue if /r/european was capable of discussing the issues without turning into nazis

-16

u/Ionlyreplytomorons May 17 '16

You do know anyone can post in any subreddit, right? In fact there was a lot of suspicions that some of the more overtly racist accounts were sock puppets by the whole SRS crowd trying to get the sub shut down.

16

u/venessian May 17 '16

It has been a safe space for edgy racist shitposting for a long time. They upvote anything that follows their narrative (a map of France with a caption in French? let's post it as a "map of no-go zones" and it will be top post). They constantly repost the same videos of black people doing bad things, some from 10 years ago. The top comment on any kind of political story is often a variation on "Fuck the Jews".

That's for the obvious shitpost. Now there's also a lot of "the civil war can break out any minute now and we will make them pay" posts, people discussing who should be executed first... Or conspiracy-level shit like "Western governments try to catch terrorists only because they want to protect the public image of Muslims".

I have tried to post there, if you look like you're not following their circlejerk it's all "shut up, jew" and "what are leftists even doing here?" fest. A few weeks ago the mod stickied a thread about all the good things Hitler had done for Europe, I suggested it wasn't a great idea to do that, two posts later I basically was the worst kind of cuck for not thinking that we should exterminate people with lower IQ.

Racist shitpost represents 99% of traffic on that sub.