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by scarab92 1621 days ago
Trying to control what ideas are allowed to be discussed seems shockingly authoritarian. It's not like this community is inciting violence.
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You're posting on a website that routinely removes posts and comments. It's definitely authoritarian, but forum sites are not democracies.

There is an argument that a subreddit could be out of line with the site, and not hosted. Granted it would be a bit of a stretch given the kind of content on reddit. I don't think r/antiwork crosses any line, but it's really up to reddit

Reddit's right to moderate what content they host isn't under challenge here.

The problematic behaviour is advocating for a ban on the discussing these ideas.

> shockingly authoritarian

… so all in a days work for reddit?

The point is that the other communities that Reddit banned weren't inciting violence either. This one is way worse than they were, yet it's not banned and they are.
The solution to authoritarianism isn't more authoritarianism. If Reddit overstepped in the past, we shouldn't treat that as a watermark for what should be banned in future.
It's not an overstepping at all, reddit has and always will be authoritarian. They will always be political. They banned whitebeautyart because it invoked a feeling of honor, tradition.

They won't ban antiwork because it encourages giving up, consooming, laziness, weakness. Exactly the kind of NPC audience reddit milks money off of. Ad revenue, reddit gold, buying emojis, constant scrooolllling, etc.

You are just naive, there will always be authoritarianism, forever. You're just on the receiving end or the administrating end.

Whatever you're selling, it won't bring answers or peace of mind.