They are, period. Politically, they're not US citizens as much as they are POWs lawfully captured in a war. It's not really news as of yet, and tbh publicizing it does nothing but increase their value as bargaining chips which is exactly what Russia wants and needs.

Jimmy Dore is right wing? Wasn't he on the Young Turks? He's more progressive than Biden. Lol

No, but mentioning he got muted again after calling them cucks like it was unwarranted is ridiculous. Also, lends credence to the notion that he probably was using language that warranted a ban.

Well it is known that the State Dept. asked Jack Dorsey to delay his upgrade so that twitter service in iran would be uninterrupted during their failed revolution in 2009. So it's not exactly far fetched to believe that governments / organizations are working with social media companies to promote agendas, etc. At this point, it's a guarantee. Now consider that reddit as a website is the 4th most visited website in the US and the 9th most in the world. There are, whether explicity with the admins or not, forces at work to control the dialogue on reddit. It's not so far fetched to take it a step further and say that if they are working with the admins, that the admins would make it difficult for users to organically discover alternative subs.

Kind of makes it seem as if they don't want people to find those subreddits, huh?