[paulmd]

you should avoid the r/coronavirus subreddit, a pro-china mod has taken over and is actively suppressing China-related news and signal-boosting news on other countries. The head mod recently started an AMA with the stated purpose of banning "troublemakers". It's effectively a pro-china messaging operation at this point.

China is very worried about this, it represents a potentially existential threat to CCP's political control of the country. That's why they were jailing doctors who reported the outbreak and so on. Maintaining media control of the narrative is important and in 2020 that of course includes social media like Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bannedfromcoronavirus/comments/f3uv...

Or, read it if you want, but be aware that it's going to be downplaying the China situation and playing up the situation in other countries to make China look better. Treat it like reading RT or something.

(and on a more general note, Reddit's system for choosing moderation is terrible. They just give control to whoever is first to register some obvious brand-name or whatever, and there's really no system to appeal it, unless you want to try and start your own subreddit using some different name. And like domain names, there's really only so many reasonable permutations of a given name.)