There is no way to be 100% sure. I didn’t see the ban message actually states hate at first so I assumed it was a ban evasion ban but it isn’t, still I’d bet that contributed to it. We’ll know for sure soon if the admins just start axing every left sub that defies the US state dept propaganda on whatever nonsense they (or more importantly their media partners as they’re fairly careful, it’s the media that says in a definitive tone that China is committing genocide) have conjured up.
It’s enough to make me want for there to be retaliatory brigades against reddit if they do that. Most communists on reddit are fairly happy to just sit in our own subs and commiserate while some individuals occasionally venture out to the front-page subs (where surely we’re outnumbered) to opine on things alongside everyone from open fascists to liberals and often get downvoted for our troubles. But if they go after all our spaces. Well I swear I’m already seeing a rise in reactionary thought on reddit since CTH’s banning, I really do think they got rid of some natural anti-bodies and counterbalances to the reactionary forces they’re trying to keep hidden from advertisers, they’ve disrupted the homeostasis.
There is no way to be 100% sure. I didn’t see the ban message actually states hate at first so I assumed it was a ban evasion ban but it isn’t, still I’d bet that contributed to it. We’ll know for sure soon if the admins just start axing every left sub that defies the US state dept propaganda on whatever nonsense they (or more importantly their media partners as they’re fairly careful, it’s the media that says in a definitive tone that China is committing genocide) have conjured up.
It’s enough to make me want for there to be retaliatory brigades against reddit if they do that. Most communists on reddit are fairly happy to just sit in our own subs and commiserate while some individuals occasionally venture out to the front-page subs (where surely we’re outnumbered) to opine on things alongside everyone from open fascists to liberals and often get downvoted for our troubles. But if they go after all our spaces. Well I swear I’m already seeing a rise in reactionary thought on reddit since CTH’s banning, I really do think they got rid of some natural anti-bodies and counterbalances to the reactionary forces they’re trying to keep hidden from advertisers, they’ve disrupted the homeostasis.