Absolutely true. Its methods of censorship are more covert than most think. Thanks for sharing.

If you get a lot of downvotes, they ask you to wait 8 minutes before replies. So it gets hard to defend your position. Maybe this doesn't affect people with a lot of karma, but for me it does. I also hate how they collapse unpopular comments.

No system is perfect, so I don't usually complain about these seemingly small things. But I feel sometimes this is done on purpose. By bending the rules, they can in a way control the discourse. Thanks for your work.

You have not been shadowbanned. This is demagoguery.

A demagogue appeals to emotional and intellectual weakness through popular desires and prejudices rather than attempting rational argument. They are rhetoricians, masters of sophistry.

Your username page, /u/RedditCensorshipX, is accessible. These pages return a "not found" error when a user has been shadowbanned. I was not alerted to your comment when you replied, so it seems you have only been shadowbanned in this particular subreddit. More interesting than that is that a moderator would then have to approve your individual comments. So... one moderator removes you and another one is your guardian?

Whoever replied to this prior to my reply is shadow banned, I clicked load 1 more comment and it just disappeared.

The comments the user made in other forums also do not load. It seems the function has been updated such that shadowbanned users' profiles remain publicly accessible.

EDIT: It seems my initial suspicions were correct.

I couldn't agree more. Reddit is just another corporate owned mass media outlet.

http://imgur.com/4W5qN9P

check out this thread:

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2z4yq0/man_walking_with_girlfriend_has_throat_slashed_in/

Click on "load more comments" and see nothing appear. That means shadowbanned accounts.

First time I see not just dozens, but literally hundreds of accounts shadowbanned like that. Terrifying

I've been noticing it more and more lately. Why does reddit even leave evidence that there are comments there? If you can't view them then why even let you click the link and confuse people?

Oh my God! that's hundreds of users been banned.

It's because of the way he linked it, see the /np.

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I subscribed to /r/undeleteshadow. There were so many articles that it dwarfed my other 20 or so subscribed subs.

Have you seen r/worldnews today? It has been filled with so much putin propaganda that the censorship of off-agenda posts is so clear. The type of shit that gets banned there in contrast to what is currently on the subs front page makes it obvious.

The mods have independent control of each sub and so if you're not 'in' then you're 'out'.

This will be the death of Reddit. Once the corruption becomes totally entrenched, it will be more and more exposed. People will then flee the site in droves. I, and I am sure many more, admire the integrity of the posts on this site and the civil discourse that follows. When that is gone I am gone.

I've just moved on from Reddit. Ive never experienced such a hivemind of the MSM in all my years of being online. I just stick to youtube now - more people on there know whats going on :)

I tried to explain why a war with Russia would be a bad idea and got downvoted quicker than Ive ever seen before. Sorry for thinking that American isn't invincible!

I have been banned from subreddits before (diff account) for having links that were too popular and recently a link in /r/music I was benefiting from (posted at random by another user) got stripped from the #3 spot, and replaced with a more "mainstream" news source about 8 hours later, returning to the top position.

I just made my voat account, however it can't handle all the traffic it's getting at the moment. My account was shadowbanned a week ago for "upvoting the same comment twice" from the same IP. My husband and I have both been redditors for years and upvoted each other's comments before with no problem. The minute I start pissing people off with unpopular opinions, BANNED. To their credit they removed the ban after I bitched about it for a week, but the damage has been done. If reddit doesn't want to be an open forum that's their own prerogative, but I will definitely stop coming here once voat can handle the traffic.

unfortunately, it is actually just going to get worse as more people use the site.

Don't use it. alt.conspiracy still exist and it has no moderation.

Has to do more with mods and people not reading reddit rules then anything. The fact this post exists says enough.

Reddit is a privately owned site. That means they can do what they want with it.

I don't know why this is such a hard concept for conspiracy theorists. I thought they were usually in support of a company being able to do what it wants with its business. If Reddit wants to censor the words "red, cars, and tulips" that is its prerogative.

I really miss the days when conspiracy theory used to be an intelligent debate about facts and not children spewing whatever nonsense they come up with.

I think the point is that reddit wants you to think it's an open forum when in reality it isn't. So the conspiracy is that they are telling you that it's an open forum as long as you abide by certain rules, however the truth is that there's a lot more manipulation of the content then they'd have you believe.

Ok, but can't you start your own subreddit and mod it yourself and then allow no censorship on your subreddit? Not saying I agree with the censorship on any subreddit, but I always felt the beauty of Reddit, was if something like that happened in any subreddit, then people could just change to a different one where that didn't occur.

I support your position OP, just wanted to make that clear.

I'm also willing to contribute to your site :)

Keep up the good work !

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My post in /r/AskReddit was censored after the Mod said it was answered. They can't even talk about naked bodies.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2z73oe/why_is_it_ok_that_tv_is_allowed_to_show_man/

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hey hit me up if you make the website, i will write about it. I write for The Anti Media brotha. Cassius Methyl on facebook. message me who you are first

Couldn't you just, you know, stop using Reddit if you're this unhappy and paranoid about it.

Is this d00d?

Who's this? Lol

Someone came into the IRC last night complaining they had been shadowbanned along with all their accounts for talking about the U.S.S. Liberty.

Ah. Not I.

he was fun

Why, instead of insulting the party you were invited to, you write an open letter to the host? "Hello, dear admins, please stop the censorship, it will be better." Communication is so easy these days.

that sure will work

no it doesn't. it's a private company.

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At least one what? He's not wrong.

Of course he is. The bill of rights and all subsequent legal precedent are not dismissed because a company owns a public park instead of the city. This ludicrous line of reasoning will backfire.

I just made my voat account, however it can't handle all the traffic it's getting at the moment. My account was shadowbanned a week ago for "upvoting the same comment twice" from the same IP. My husband and I have both been redditors for years and upvoted each other's comments before with no problem. The minute I start pissing people off with unpopular opinions, BANNED. To their credit they removed the ban after I bitched about it for a week, but the damage has been done. If reddit doesn't want to be an open forum that's their own prerogative, but I will definitely stop coming here once voat can handle the traffic.