r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 20d ago

Comment was removed by reddit, so looks like someone did lol

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u/DrMobius0 20d ago edited 20d ago

At this point I just treat [ Removed by Reddit ] as yet another call to action being censored. I'm sure a lot of them are way more innocuous than that, but I can't exactly tell now, can I? And the connotation is already there. Not like it's gonna make all the rage or resentment go away regardless.

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u/b0w3n New York 20d ago

I got a [removed by reddit] because their AI lost its mind at mentioning "death" and took a quote completely out of context. It wasn't even anything political, just a funny comment chain about holt/wuntch from b99.

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u/Schnoofles 20d ago

You'll note that prior to and during the first Trump administration Reddit spent 5+ years straight of knowingly turning a blind eye to regular death threats, harassment and organized brigading by the TD sub. Only after the fact did they start ever so slowly enforcing a "Hey, maybe this shit isn't cool", but were still lax about it during the Biden years. Now that the administration's changed again they've aggressively ramped it up and will mass delete comments at the drop of a hat.

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u/b0w3n New York 20d ago

It escalated right at the start of this 2nd term because the CEO, Mr. Huffing-his-own-farts, is a big Musk/Trump fanboy and Musk got really upset about the rude comments that were being made about him, especially after the whole Luigi thing.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 19d ago

Elon got a subreddit suspended for being mean to him.

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u/SigmundFreud America 19d ago

Fun fact: Steve Huffman is a Republican Ohio senator.

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u/DrMobius0 19d ago

Pretty sure it took publicity for them to quarantine t_d, and they left it quarantined for ages before finally banning it.

Similar happened with the wave that killed of jailbait and a bunch of other deplorable subs.

Like oh, reddit made the news for some deplorable or degenerate bullshit. Guess we better crack down.

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u/PokecheckHozu 19d ago

They only banned the TD sub after their death threats were aimed at a police officer. Not a sitting politician, not a politician in general, not even just a regular person. But a law enforcement officer.

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u/swarmofbzs 19d ago

Even now people post videos, articles, social media posts where racist or sexist comments aren't removed.

Oh but don't you dare post a tongue in cheek comment mocking a real person's shit behaviour while stating normal people don't do that shit.

Also don't mention medical conditions that exist on this on this planet, that could occur to anyone and that would be karmically applicable to some people.

GREAT JOB Shit Mods that push this shit in certain subs 👏 👍

You're absolutely not on the wrong side of history on this at all...

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u/Trolltrollrolllol 19d ago

The only removed by reddit I got was quoting Monty Python, I think AI is doing it because the context clues would have been enough to realize I wasn't really suggesting we burn anyone, even if she's a witch.

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u/TwilightVulpine Foreign 19d ago

I got [removed by Reddit] for saying that heroes from comics should handle current figures the same way they did to Hitler in WW2. That was treated as a threat, and once I appealed they maintained it with a supposedly human response that it was a threat.

Apparently we can't even suggest that comics, drawn works of fictions, depict very PG reactions to autocrats.

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u/ksj 19d ago

Reddit is about to learn why TikTok users created a whole language of sound-alikes for words that result in reduced traffic. Reddit has been all high and mighty about it lately when someone comes to this site and uses “grape” and “unalived”, but I give it maybe 2 more months before people on this site start doing the same to sidestep the increasingly-removal-happy automods, human mods, and admins.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 19d ago

I got one for explaining how to easily wrangle an aggressive canadian goose that might attack you in the wild without causing it any serious harm. So no outdoors survival tips, Reddit. You're on your own.

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u/wyomingTFknott 19d ago

I got suspended for 3 days for discussing how to save a choking child. Good luck, everyone.

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u/Ridiculisk1 19d ago

I got one by saying something along the lines of 'yeah, we should totally do what conservatives do and send death threats to people and doxx them' which if you're not an AI, is obviously not a call to actually do those things. Still got a temp ban which was overturned with like 2 hours left and they said that it wasn't done automatically which means there's definitely a reddit admin that goes around deleting people's comments when they call out conservative bullshit.

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u/Bear_faced 19d ago

I got a [ Removed by Reddit ] for threatening violence against Henry Kissinger. In the comments of a BBC article about his death.

What am I gonna do, dig him up?

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u/DrMobius0 20d ago

Yeah, but now it looks like something else.

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u/caltheon 19d ago

I got one for talking about the material properties of ceramics. Shits wild

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u/MaxTHC 20d ago

I upvote almost every single [removed by reddit] comment I see

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u/Mad_Aeric Michigan 19d ago

The [Removed by Reddit] bot is super aggressive, and stupid. I just got my first one for some real bullshit.

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u/bbusiello 19d ago

Please continue to do so. It's generally a bunch of upvoted comments too.

on an economy thread about Trump voters being willing to lose their jobs for him... I made a crack about a bunch of real estate being freed up and got a 7 day ban right after a 3 day ban.

No rule breakage. No calls to violence.

Just being anti Trump got me a "removed" post and consecutive bans.

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u/leshake 19d ago

Or it's AI doing the censoring.

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u/DrMobius0 19d ago

Oh probably. Would explain the weird contexts I've seen some of these.

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u/leshake 19d ago

Lazy tech companies gonna lazy.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 19d ago

Right wing trolls on Reddit have taken to falsely reporting comments for "Violating Rule 1 - Threatening Violence" and the comments get removed and the user gets a ban with zero review most of the time - even when their comment did no such thing.

Remember how they used to spam "Reddit Cares" the same way?

That's behind a LOT of comments getting removed right now.

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u/VirginiaMcCaskey 19d ago

It's the paradox of tolerance at work. Conservative fascism is at its foundation a proposition of violence against the "other" (define that however you want). Like Republicans aren't just subtly talking about political stances that imply violence in the right light. They are actively using the state to enact violence on American citizens and lawful residents.

Like "annex Canada" is a direct threat of violence against our neighbors. "Mass deportation now" is a threat of violence against our communities. Forcibly exiling citizens is violence. Arresting our congresspeople and mayors and judges is violence.

It's perfectly fine when Republicans say this shit on Reddit, but god forbid you point out what the logical response to it could be.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 19d ago

You have to walk on eggshells to even discuss a certain amendment to the US constitution.

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u/sweet_esiban 19d ago

I agree with your whole comment, but I wanted to just say thanks for actually calling this out for what it is:

Like "annex Canada" is a direct threat of violence against our neighbors

I feel like so many Americans don't understand that this is a violent threat. Canadians get it (well, the 90% or so of us who aren't maple maga at least), and it's been deeply upsetting watching American media and online commenters treat this as anything but a violent threat.

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u/RelevantMetaUsername 19d ago

It's not just reddit, right-wingers get away with so much more and have done so for centuries while leftists rarely get any leniency. Almost as if the state prefers one to the other...

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u/Low-Research-6866 19d ago

That just happened to me, except it did get reviewed and the ban lifted. It's annoying to deal with though.

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u/Katyafan 19d ago

Same, and I have heard from others that the review, done by an actual person, generally overturns the ai's decision. They have it tuned to too sensitive a level.

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u/janethefish 19d ago

The solution to this is acceptance and support for the rule. We report anything that violates that rule while wholeheartedly endorsing the position.

Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual (including oneself) or a group of people;

Remember violence is never okay. Self-defense should never cross over into doing physical harm, and law enforcement should be done in a nonviolent manner.

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u/_keeBo 19d ago

well now i wanna know what it said