You see, Reddit is secretly run by fascists
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This, frankly, is far less unfair than Reddit normally is.
Several years ago, r/Anarchism101 made a post about the bus of Trump supporters that were in favor of deporting illegals. This was back in like 2017-2018.
Several posters not only advocated for violence, but one explicitly stated that someone should go to the bus, and pour thermite into the gas tank, burn the whole thing, and kill everyone inside.
The Admins directly reached out to the Moderators of the sub and told them, something along the lines of "Hey, you guys have been doing this too much. You can't just not remove content that explicitly calls for murder and violence at the rate that you have been doing over the past several months. This is the fourth time we've had to reach out to you about this."
In case you're not clear, if you think I'm censorious here, double check the full fucking novel of the "Long Rules" on the KiA2 reddit. This was because not only would the Admins never reach out, let alone accept an appeal, but there would never be any warning. In fact, there were never warnings about changes to policy regarding what was considered violent speech.
I will remind you that AoV was banned for violent speech. "Violent Speech" doesn't mean "we should kill them". Violent Speech meant: "That transwoman is ugly".
Oh yeah, I almost forgot the secret rule. The rule that was actually a violation of the rules if you told it to someone. BTW, that was "Transpeople have a mental illness." Yes, quoting the rule got people banned sitewide.
This, frankly, is evidence that even in the Reddit moderation mills of H1B redeemers, there is a small cultural change taking place away from the Left, and this counts as "Reddit is controlled by Fascists".