Comment Re:From free speech hero to big brother (Score -1, Troll) 115
In other words, they want to ramp up the censorship even more than they already have. As a user over there for a good while, moderator abuses have increasingly become commonplace all over the site, and now the admins are joining in the fun with their sinister-1984-themed name "Anti-evil Operations" (I'm not making this up), and are removing comments and banning or quarantining relatively innocent subs (not just dodgy ones). Permanent bans of users are common on even the popular default subs (such as r/politics, r/news, or r/pics) if you express remotely right-wing sentiments. As an example of notorious censorship, most users don't know when their comments are deleted (either by the automod or a real moderator), and often don't even know when their posts are removed. Even upvoting a comment or post that doesn't fit the agenda of the site admins can get you (automatically) warned and ultimately banned from the site. Many cases of such censorship are document in the so-called r/SubredditCancer and r/WatchRedditDie sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/watchredditdie. It's a wonder they have escaped the ban-hammer so far, though I don't expect that to last. The admins have been clearly shown to strongly bias Left (due to their left-wing only donations to politicians), and effectively banned the biggest right-wing forum on the site (The_Donald, who was also infamously guilty of censoring leftists within their sub, but at least they were never claiming to be neutral), and have also censored posts and comments that are 'anti-China' (which started when 10-cent bought/invested in part of Reddit), even if the criticism is directed at the government and not the people. Looks like they want to become Digg 2.0.
it's not anti-right wing. It's anti-rabid frothing racism. The fact that most of that is right wing just means right wing has a rabid frothing racism problem.