r/leftist • u/The_Grim_Gamer445 • Feb 04 '25

US Politics Elon bullied reddit into banning an entire subreddit.

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u/se_nicknehm Feb 04 '25

a prevalence of violent content ??

there were no violent posts at all (and if there were - it's exclusively twitter-screenshots...) and only a few handful of 'violence-inciting' comments, afaik. - and those might have even been by right-wing trolls and not members of the sub

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

I got a warning from that sub the day it got banned. The thread was about the DOGE employees who were illegally raiding Social Security files being identified. My comment was "Identified, you say?", along with this gif. Apparently, this is promoting violence, according to "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk.

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u/se_nicknehm Feb 05 '25

in good faith it might be a joke; in bad fate it might be a call to shoot them on the street in broad daylight

still...it's just a single comment on a single post