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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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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Far-right nuts have been screaming about that 2nd amendment you guys have for decades.

Now that left-wingers are talking about it... it's a problem.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

This is weird, but I'm not sure - if this was to do with the current administration, why they would ban promoting the second amendment? Wouldn't it be the other way around?

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Not enough people are leaving Reddit and they are not leaving fast enough

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just to be clear: Account suspension (i.e. a ban from the entire website) or a ban from, say, r/herpderp. The former is from paid reddit employees, the latter is from volunteer user moderators.

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

Yes.

But Reddit also employes site-wide automated banning. The instances of banning that I'm talking about all happened essentially instantly. It was a bot that banned me site-wide.

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[–] stupud@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Dont let them take your guns

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I’ve confirmed this with multiple accounts now.

I mean, you're breaking their rules right up front. That could mean they're banning you simply based on that rule, and nothing necessarily to do with rights advocation.

Unless of course you're doing a top job of disguising each new acct. AFAIK, they're pretty good at detecting that stuff... (I mean accts that aren't IP-related and such)

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

Yup. I mentioned it and was warned.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure you need to make a fash account if you want to post about that kind of stuff.

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

r/gunsforsale used to be a thing.

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