Comment by karlkloss
5 days ago
Moderators are the reason why I stopped using Reddit years ago. Every idiot can become a moderator, and there seem to be no rules for them. Suppressing free speech and banning everyone that doesn't share their opinion seems to be ok for them.
The constitution for the Nation of Reddit makes all speech legally protected, after all.
This isn't even about Reddit the company. /r/canada got taken over by far right political people who will ban anyone not conservative. The /r/mattress mentioned in this post is also commonplace with private corporations taking over subreddits of interest to ban their competitors. Israel, a nation-state, also pays the mods of /r/news and /r/worldnews. You can't post anything, even factual articles, that goes against a very specific political narrative without being banned.
Besides allowing it to happen, Reddit the corporation is not the one doing this. It's private interests of all sorts that are driving down the quality and diversity of discussions for a website that often ranks at the top of google search results.
> Israel, a nation-state, also pays the mods of /r/news and /r/worldnews.
Is there any evidence behind this claim?