There was a thread on /r/conspiracy about how the moderators of Reddit's /r/SquaredCircle forum were deleting any criticism of the Palestinian movement. I posted links to two articles by Francisco Gil-White, a psychologist who has studied the origins of the Palestinian movement and their leader's influence on Germany's decision to conduct the Holocaust, to show what the moderators of /r/SquaredCircle were defending by deleting criticism of them. I was quickly banned by one of /r/conspiracy's moderators under Rule 2, which is:
- Address the argument; not the user, the mods, or the sub.
After appealing on the grounds that I had not criticized /r/conspiracy or its mods, the same moderator came back with the real reason for the ban:
on looking through your history it turns out you are a flag-waving zionist who pushes anti-Palestinian propaganda.
That's not in the sub's rules, but apparently it's grounds for a permanent ban now. Feel free to look through my history to see for yourself what offended them so much.
Get used to it, they're defining criticism of anything that they support as 'hate speech' now.