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I've confirmed this with multiple accounts now. If you promote the 2nd amendment, including training responsibly with others, your account will be autobanned within 60 seconds.

To be clear, my comments contained exactly zero calls to violence. They were simple comments stating every American has the right to arm themselves and that everyone should train responsibly, ideally with others who are more experienced.

I've had 4 or 5 accounts autobanned within a minute now. All immediately after posting pro 2nd amendment comments. These accounts were anywhere from 1 week to multiple months old. So they're not brand new accounts that are being flagged for whatever reason.

Reddit is now complicit in the fascist takeover of our nation.


EDIT: Been testing some more with a 2 week old account. Discovered that Reddit is also autobanning accounts that use the word "guillotine". I left a comment that literally only consisted of the word "guillotine", no other context at all, and within 30 seconds I was auto-suspended for 3 days.

If the mod who was in here telling people I was lying with no proof whatsoever, and who also lied about testing my methods, would like to test this out, or lie about testing it out, that would be great.

And, for the record, my username for the account just suspended actually has the word "Guillotine" in it. So apparently their bots don't screen usernames. Just contents of comments, and I'm assuming posts. I don't bother posting on Reddit, so I don't know about that one.

As I originally stated, Reddit is complicit in the fascist takeover of our nation.


Edit 2: Despite a mod on this sub claiming that I'm lying and threatening to delete this post, here is more proof from users on Reddit that Reddit is, in fact, auto banning users for discussing our Constitutional rights.

I've been seeing more and more Reddit users talking about this.

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 134 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao, so decades of child’s shooting up schools, 2a is a-ok!

Resistance to ICE gestappo, 2a banned?

Well it’s on brand for this country at least.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It's Reddit. It's a cesspool run by trash humans.

So yes, you can talk about guns and the 2nd amendment all you want when children are being murdered in school, but if fascists control the government, you gotta stop that, because you're now an "agitator".

Edit: Actually, to be fair, most Reddit users are good enough people to grasp that fascism has come to America and fascism is bad. So calling the site in general a cesspool isn't necessarily accurate. The shitstains are mostly bots and a small percentage of trash humans. The real issue are the trash humans running the site and dictating the rules that have driven us all to Lemmy.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's Reddit. It's a cesspool run by trash humans.

Yeah, corporate advertisers.

Can't speak of violence guns or anything else, lest it upset the VERY kinds of people looking for that "Disney" sensibility the Mayor of Minneapolis refered to last night, after he got asked about dropping the F-bomb in response to the shooting yesterday.

It's squeeky-clean and "sanitized" for your protection, now that it had it's IPO and went mainstream.

Come on, what do we all expect? Everyone here is old enough to know how this all rolls.

It's all got to be puppies and daffodils and fairy tales that keep the shoppers feeling safe and spending.

Capitalism 101: Keep the consumers warm and fuzzy.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real issue are the trash humans running the site and dictating the rules that have driven us all to Lemmy.

Well, I got bad news for you on that front, too.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know. I'm not saying Lemmy is perfect. But the only censorship I've experienced was on .ml (surprise surprise) and I haven't been banned, not even from an individual sub/instance.

It's got problems but it isn't Reddit levels of trash.

Lemmy allows me to support our Constitutional rights. That alone makes it better than Reddit.

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[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If you’re still using reddit then you are complicit in the takeover too.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I only continue to use Reddit to combat misinformation, defend our Constitution, and promote Lemmy.

I've never given them a dime. I block all ads.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your traffic is measured by them and used to increase their numbers when making ad sales. Regardless of whether you have given them any money and blocked all their ads, you still count as traffic to the site, and that is what they are selling to advertisers.

So, yes, even though you don't intentionally give them any money, the majority of the money they make is from the valuation placed on traffic to the site, which you continue contributing to.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess that begs the question, is spending the majority of your time on a generally censorship free site like Lemmy, but continuing to spend some time on the most popular site of its kind that does censor, in order to combat misinformation, defend our rights, and promote a better site morally wrong? Is it worth conbributing to their ad revenue? When you know the site is so popular it isn't going anywhere anyway?

Either way, this is a Lemmy sub about Reddit and you can't really know everything that's going on with Reddit unless you're logged in and contributing in some way.

Personally, I believe correcting misinformation and spreading awareness about our rights is worth continuing to login on a sporadic basis.

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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Combatting misinfo on corpo sites is a lost cause. They put their thumb on the scale.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You gotta siphon off the content and users while ad blocking.

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Why do you keep saying this without quoting what you posted?

Repeat what you said if it’s so normal

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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I’m glad they permabanned me now. I wouldn’t have left if they didn’t and being permabanned for what they did for, plus seeing stuff like this, plus knowing Maxwell is moderating on the network again, it’s a good thing.

Thanks Reddit and fuck you Spez.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I only run Reddit in a private browsing window. When they permaban me I reset the browser and close it, open up a new private window, create a new Reddit account with a throwaway email and I'm back in and don't get permabanned again until I promote our Constitutional rights or tell a Trump supporter their mother shouldn't have carried to term and get reported for hurting their feelings.

So I'm assuming they catch account hoppers via cookies.

I even have a browser script that auto-adds all my subs back so I don't lose all my subs. There's some nuance to that though as if the script auto-adds too many subs too quickly, you'll get flagged and auto-banned. So I have to set the script to only add one sub every 5000ms and then leave that tab alone while it adds all my subs. I only care about the subs at all because Lemmy doesn't have all the really specific subs I find myself sometimes needing to post on for answers to specific shit.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah nah they can fuck off. They get no more traffic from me.

Your workaround is pretty cool though and if it works for you, yeah.

Mine was a strong account as well, I think I had around 150k karma and I’d actively be involved in a lot of subs.

I’d rather stay here now and help build this.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My first account was 13 years old with 250k comment karma and was permabanned without warning for saying "It's OK to punch a Nazi."

Yeah, focus your time on helping Lemmy grow.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah see there you go. That’s a frame and put on the wall statement.

Mine was for agreeing with a Muslim woman on the Fauxmoi sub that the reason the bloke who disarmed that Bondi shooter and didn’t kill him afterward was that he’s a peaceful Muslim. That was my thought when I saw it, most Muslims I’ve met are exceptionally peaceful people. I said ‘I thought the same…thanks for your insight.’

That got a permaban. I appealed it and it failed. I’m not the only one I think, I’m certain there were a few others as well. So that’s inciting violence.

My interpretation is that the narrative of Islam or Muslims possibly being peaceful in nature isn’t one they want put out there. It doesn’t surprise me, as I said Maxwell is back on the site so it’s not hard to work out what’s happening.

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 6 points 2 months ago

plus knowing Maxwell is moderating on the network again

Fucking what??? Jesus Christ.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

“We need guns in case of tyranny!”

(Tyranny happens.)

“You are now banned for discussing guns!”

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Balldowern@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just lurk on reddit. Don't contribute anything there. Leech like u/spez does & you'll be happier.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Just leave reddit already, it doesn't have anything of value.

It's the same thing as bitching about Facebook while still using it.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

The smaller niche communities can still have something of value, but I only read, never contribute.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Finally! Only took them 20 years.

Are they axing all the conservative subs or just focusing in on the really fascist ones?

Oh... no, wait. I'm receiving a note. Nevermind, that's not what is happening at all.

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[–] neatchee@piefed.social 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you're not rotating your IP every time then you're getting hit for ban evasion triggered by keyword detection or reports

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Suddenly spez's masters fear it. After all its pretty clear he is just a well paid tool now with no acutal power beyond his bloated bot net driven opinoin engine.

I still get these /c/reddit post in my main feed. I'm going to go ahead and block this community. I'm really tired of reading about reddit. Its dead and really shouldn't be discussed here at all.

Reddit truly is dead to me.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Funny how it's been a thing for YEARS without autobanning. When it was "I need my guns to stand against tyranny if it shows up at my door", there were no autobans. Now that tyranny is actually at the door, they autoban.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Reddit has been complicit in the rise of facism for a while.

[–] Suriel@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most likely related to the today's murder of that woman by ICE

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (12 children)

This is something I've been testing over the last 6 months.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[–] Pfeffy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"I've totally done real work to prove this. No, I won't show any of it."

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Bastard and his bots will always banhammer anyone even remotely talking about committing violence. He doesn't like progressives contaminating his LLM farming data to sell for.

So fuck you spez.

[–] 42beansinapod@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

https://socialistra.org/ for anyone who needs to see this

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if you can promote it in the conservative subs? Probably only if your entire account is right-wing bullshit to begin with.

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[–] berno@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Fuck Reddit fuck spez

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The best thing we can do is get more people onto PieFed / Lemmy.

Where things can't just easily be censored

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

A quick lurk shows there are posts on liberalgunowners referencing current events. What exactly were you trying to post?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you even have multiple accounts get banned, without all of them getting banned?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'll repost what I posted to someone else's comment.


I only run Reddit in a private browsing window. When they permaban me I reset the browser and close it, open up a new private window, create a new Reddit account with a throwaway email and I’m back in and don’t get permabanned again until I promote our Constitutional rights or tell a Trump supporter their mother shouldn’t have carried to term and get reported for hurting their feelings.

So I’m assuming they catch account hoppers via cookies.

I even have a browser script that auto-adds all my subs back so I don’t lose all my subs. There’s some nuance to that though as if the script auto-adds too many subs too quickly, you’ll get flagged and auto-banned. So I have to set the script to only add one sub every 5000ms and then leave that tab alone while it adds all my subs. I only care about the subs at all because Lemmy doesn’t have all the really specific subs I find myself sometimes needing to post on for answers to specific shit.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That should shut down /liberalgunowners.

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