Yeah, it looks like all major subreddits are "influenced" by certain parties to push their narratives. I dared to link to Japanese researchers who measured Cesium at Fukushima and got a [permaban from /r/worldnews. Apparently it's "trolling" to link to scientifically peer reviewed literature LOL - https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditCensors/comments/13vbuhs/rogue_mod_in_rworldnews/ And I got a permaban from /r/korea/ for daring to disagree with some troll claiming that hunting down koreans was right and "patriotic". Yeah, you can't disagree witht he notion that hunting down koreans is wrong LOL - https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditCensors/comments/r7bbwa/rkorea_mods_permabanning_people_who_question_the/ Just assume that reddit is a propaganda machine. Places like worldnews sell themselves to the highest bidder and that probably makes reddit a lot of money.

Yeah, mods are openly abusing their tiny bit of power to push their bullshit beliefs. I got temp banned from /r/soccer/ for telling people that, no, koreans aren't terrified of fans and no, they don't believe that you'll die from them. But apparently koreans aren't allowed to talk about what koreans believe in LOL.

Yeah, it's actually very easy to see how mod teams might be corrupted. You have people who are unpaid, but have dictatorial powers within very popular online spaces. It would be *very* easy to be tempted by the offer of money under the table. Even if you ignore corrupting someone who's already there, it would be very easy for personal biases to manifest. After all, what recourse is there? Who chooses the mod team? Existing mods. Who do you ask for reviews of decisions? Existing mods. If an entire team goes rogue there's literally no recourse. Admins can steap in, but it would take admins actively policing mod teams, but how large is the admin team? Not large enough to deal with anything *unless* it's really hitting reddit's reputation and upcoming IPOs.

That's a shame to hear. Maybe it's already too late, but I still hold hope that it's just a single rogue individual and the team remembers the reasons and passion that led them to volunteer their time for free.

That is true, and that's why I don't expect them to change. But they pretend to be something that they're not. If they were open about being the second coming of Dave's ESL cafe or the bitter expat facebook groups then at least people would know to expect that they'd be fine with people advocating murder as long as it was against koreans.