[mothballed]

Reddit will delete anything remotely controversial if it contains referenced facts. They banned and deleted my account for simply stating the 5th amendment prohibits requiring incriminating yourself to exercise a right. An Ivy League educated lawyer dug up the comment one year after I posted it, told reddit I was distributing illegal legal advice, and had my whole account nuked.

[stevenwoo]

I got suspended for criticizing the state of Israel’s treatment of civilians in occupied territories, but they didn’t delete my account, though I stopped logging in after a week. (Logging in retains your subscriptions). I've seen plenty of similar comments to mine so I assume it was the work of some oddball who I responded to that has an connection to somebody who works there so they could pull some strings to suspend my account.

[inigyou]

It isn't safe to criticise Israel on nearly any online platform. You should only ever do it with a throwaway account and a VPN, and Reddit bans VPNs.

[user43928]

At the same time Reddit was hosting Arabic speaking subreddits with communities that openly support terrorist groups.

Considering that some of the content may well be illegal in a few EU countries, I was surprised Reddit does not more proactively nuke it to protect themselves.

[pndy]

> Logging in retains your subscriptions

I'm sorry, is that something that happen recently? Because when I had an account there, subscriptions were permanent

[stevenwoo]

What I meant was I was permanently banned so I can still login and get notifications of responses to my commments, just could not vote or change any of my subscriptions.

[dredmorbius]

Reddit users also very frequently delete accounts and/or content.

[retired]

After a shadow ban none of my old comments were visible anywhere on Reddit.

So I deleted all my content. If people can’t view my content, why have it online?

[markdown]

Nah, it's rare to see [deleted].

More common is seeing "tumble cup and he ran flew tree" due to users using anonymizing apps to remove their old data.

[hparadiz]

My real name account got banned for quoting something someone else said. Pretty hilarious in hindsight.

[Rebelgecko]

Which lawyer?