This sub paid a lot of lip service to the protest and participated in the blackout, but they removed my post promoting Lemmy and the liberal gun owners group here. Ain’t that some shit?
@TrinityTek Hi - its not the mods at r/liberalgunowners who removed your post. I’ve been in touch with the mod there and when I made a similar post about Kbin last week it was removed by the Reddit admins, not the sub mods. They wanted to let me know it wasn’t them. Spez has been doing all sorts of shit like that, Its one big reason why I’m done with Spezzit. Post in the m/liberalgunowners magazine here on Kbin-social.
Thanks for letting me know! I certainly hope that’s true and it wasn’t actually the sub mod team as the message indicated. That’s really slimy for Reddit admins to do that and make out as though it’s the mods, but it’s definitely not surprising at this point.
That is really discouraging from self-described liberals.
Sounds like it might be admins hiding behind a moderator disguise. That sounds at least equally plausible to me.
You in Europe? Report this to European authorities. This is illegal anti-competitive action.
I appreciate the suggestion. It’s been great hearing about the exciting new regulations coming out of Europe, such as USB C on iPhones and replaceable batteries on mobile devices. It’s great that the European government looks out for the people like that. Sadly here in the US many of our lawmakers are beholden to corporations and special interests and there is very little in the way of enforcement for anticompetitive action.
I don’t even really care about the guns or liberal part. I don’t consider myself liberal, but either way Reddit is trying to censor information concerning competitor platforms on its own platform. This is a violation of EU anti-competition regulations and will get Reddit into some big legal and financial trouble.
I know we’re angry at reddit… but no, this is not illegal anti-competitive action.
Mods can remove anything they want from their subs, it’s not illegal lol.
As explained by a user above, this action was taken by Reddit admins, not the moderators of the involved subreddit. That makes it a regulatory violation. Reddit admins are removing content from their platform that promotes alternatives to Reddit across all subreddits, often disguising their actions through subreddit mod team accounts. https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/87586/-/comment/369201
@RightHandOfIkaros admins are actively deleting posts that reference alternatives, including Kbin and Lemmy.
