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points by firesteelrain 1 day ago | 0 comments
I was banned from subreddits for belonging to r/conservative. Mods wanted me to disavow that subreddit to atone for the sin of belonging to that subreddit.
[–] AngryData 6 hours ago
You will catch political sub bans for posting in and/or joining all sorts of other political subs, no matter what you actually said. I got more than a few from the exact opposite end of the political spectrum. All the political subs have been bought and paid for by propagandists for atleast a decade now. And having to either catching more random bans or having to self-censor myself, I left.

Hell there were even multiple political sub moderator purges that were right out in the open. Entire mod lists changing over night in multiple subs even way back.

[–] freecodeio 19 hours ago
tbh it's quite a sin to belong to that subreddit, might as well as just inject bleach and it's the same level of stupidity
[–] firesteelrain 18 hours ago
It’s censorship
[–] freecodeio 18 hours ago
the sub that censors the rest of the reddit userbase gets censored by the rest of the reddit userbase, color me surprised
[–] firesteelrain 17 hours ago
It wants you to have a conservative viewpoint. But it doesn't ban you if you join like say r/AdviceAnimals which 2 years ago many subreddits were taken over when Trump was running for office again. r/AdviceAnimals and others were banning those that were members of r/conservative.

Reddit took action in March 5, 2026 to stop that practice.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1rllqrw/ban_bot_po...

There is a policy of ideological gatekeeping by certain Moderators.

[–] freecodeio 17 hours ago
> It wants you to have a conservative viewpoint.

no it bans you for not having a conservative viewpoint, that's completely different from wanting you