Reddit blatantly removing a post about censorship that makes them look bad.

353    08 Feb 2019 15:30 by u/FreeSpeechWarrior

26 comments

28 u/armymon 08 Feb 2019 23:35
I find it kind of funny how all of a sudden everybody cares about free speech and censorship on Reddit when Subs like politics have been doing it for years
5 u/pjmcflur 09 Feb 2019 05:02
It’s as if the Reddit that loved Ron Paul showed up again.
0 u/OliverBludsport * 09 Feb 2019 11:47
Why are you responding to a post about the suppression of dissent as if that dissent didn't exist before? How would you even know?
1 u/[deleted] 10 Feb 2019 08:53
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25 u/stiche 08 Feb 2019 16:24
Reddit removed it or mods did? Where was it posted?
16 u/3FingersOfMilk 08 Feb 2019 16:54
[First it was posted here to Pics](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/aofnuv/given_that_reddit_just_took_a_150_million/) (original link) [Mirror](https://snew.notabug.io/r/pics/comments/aofnuv/_/) [Then it was posted to OutOfTheLoop](https://www.reddit.com/r/outoftheloop/comments/aogb18/_/) (original link) [Mirror](https://www.reddit.com/r/outoftheloop/comments/aogb18/_/) Edit: [There's also a thread on Undelete](https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/aobkyr/_/)
5 u/Cain-Draws 08 Feb 2019 19:20
Honest question: I just saw that post and it has like 11 platinum... How is it censored if I can still see it and people keep giving gold?
7 u/FreeSpeechWarrior [OP] 08 Feb 2019 19:20
I reposted it with a slightly modified title and they allowed it.
6 u/TheMeltingSnowman72 08 Feb 2019 19:37
But now it doesn't show up in front page or r/all.
2 u/Little-Helper 08 Feb 2019 19:58
Shows up for me after a couple of scrolls.
9 u/biznatch11 08 Feb 2019 20:36
Doesn't that negate your concern then? I assume the mods didn't want the title to include the vague "this" as a descriptor, so once you replaced it with the more accurate description "Tank Man at Tienanmen Square" they allowed it. It wasn't anything to do with censorship it was about their subreddit rules. You say "reddit" removed it, implying the admins, when in fact was the mods, who are not employees of reddit. There's now an [even more inflammatory post at the top of /all and /pics](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/aoidr9/the_real_picture_of_tienanmen_square_people/), if reddit admins were really censoring this topic this new post wouldn't be there.
0 u/FreeSpeechWarrior [OP] † 08 Feb 2019 20:37
The title isn't mine originally I copied it from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/aogno7/reddit_blatantly_removing_a_post_about_censorship/ and posted it before I had the idea of trying to correct it.
1 u/[deleted] 08 Feb 2019 20:39
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4 u/biznatch11 08 Feb 2019 20:41
Regardless of who originally wrote the title it's claiming censorship, I'm pointing out why I don't think it's censorship. I assumed that since you made this post you agreed with the claim of censorship.
1 u/bonerwashington 08 Feb 2019 22:40
Include me in the screenshot
1 u/Coltino 08 Feb 2019 23:54
Wow this got removed? That is such blatant censorship. Guys where do we go other than 4chan?
1 u/[deleted] 09 Feb 2019 04:06
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1 u/black-op345 12 Feb 2019 08:42
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1 u/black-op345 12 Feb 2019 08:45
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-15 u/MarquisDePaid 08 Feb 2019 17:44
To be fair, the tianamen square drama was largely astroturfed 1989: Soros/CIA NGO's incite [protests in China](https://www.rt.com/op-ed/163872-china-tiananmen-square-june4/) in an attempt to get bloodshed and later exagerate the event known as the "Tianamen Square Massacre" There were a few casualties, but the figures were exaggerated and used as cold war propaganda
5 u/stiche 08 Feb 2019 18:29
There's no excuse for making a thing illegal to talk about (excepting via contractual agreements)
10 u/myimgurreddit 08 Feb 2019 19:28
Nice try China, we aren't falling for it
-5 u/MarquisDePaid 08 Feb 2019 19:45
Read the US embassy cables before you make a judgement >WikiLeaks, the website that received hundreds of thousands of pages of intercepted diplomatic correspondence from the US State Department, has released a classified diplomatic cable from then-Beijing Ambassador James Lilley to Washington dated July 12, 1989 more than four weeks after the events. In his report, Lilley writes the following shocking version of events... Beijing Ambassador James Lilley is a real person He would have a good view of the event from a US perspective, unless he's lying (due to being compromised), but I've seen no evidence to suggest that
6 u/myimgurreddit 08 Feb 2019 19:51
What about the Chineseofficial who said that 10,000+ people were murdered? And why would the Chinese govt confiscate the reporters camera and recorders if they weren't trying to hide it?