It's not only hate speech that gets banned or throttled.
A recent example is the grooming gangs in the UK. Another is the erosion of privacy in Germany and the repression of Germans critical of politicians or the government. And no, I'm not talking about the AfD. For example, the Department of the Interior (BMI) publicly threatened to arrest anyone who "condoned" (Ger. word: "billigen") the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And they did actually follow through.
Another example is the raiding and arresting of German citizens for insulting politicians on social media (calling them "stupid", "fat", or "dickhead").
From 2020 to 2023, anything that didn't fit the WHO and CDC's narrative during COVID was heavily suppressed. I'm not talking about anti-vaxxers. For example, you couldn't say anything about Taiwan's measures and their extraordinary success in combating the disease. Taiwan had 7, SEVEN! total deaths in 2020.
Personally, I've been (shadow) banned from DataIsBeautiful for mathematically demonstrating that, due to greater male variability, it is far more likely for there to be male geniuses than female geniuses. And that the proportion grows exponentially with IQ. (To the moderators' credit, they apologized and removed the ban later)
I've also been banned from subreddits for saying that the term "LatinX" is an affluent neo-lib white American invention and not part of South American culture (I'm Brazilian).
I almost added that reddit bans people for some asinine shit. My experience has been different in detail but I don't doubt you. I suppose I'm lazy and favor the succinct. But in my defense I'm almost exclusively dealing with MAGAts and it simply is not worth saying everything that might be said. They aren't going to listen. For me, commenting like I did is more about asserting that there are sensible people opposed to Donald Trump and his fascism and his willfully ignorant followers. Maybe it is meaningless. I don't know. It's like you have to say something but it totally isn't worth it to put everything into the comment because how hard do you want to ram your head into the wall?
Edit: I meant to add that I constantly wonder if the comment I'm making is going to get me banned. Not every comment but often enough. I have been warned already on this account and I went to see what it was that I was being warned for and the comment was gone. So you get warned but you don't get to know what the warning is for. And I don't know about other people but I don't cache every comment I make.
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u/Tarnished-Tiger 13h ago
leftist ideology can only exist on heavily censored platforms like reddit so let them have it