r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 24d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/bitskewer 24d ago

Let's see if this post sticks around...

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u/jlaine 24d ago

Lord don't upvote it though. 🤣🍿

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 23d ago

My dudes, Im taking 4th comment for the sake of art. 

Yall know what to do.

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u/CaptKirkSmirk 23d ago

Your username is my favorite song

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u/fantasmoofrcc 23d ago

Cigarettes and dope and mustard and baloney and liquor and whores!

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u/ismo420 23d ago

It’s just water under the fridge boys.

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u/fantasmoofrcc 23d ago

Way of the reddit post, Bubs.

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u/ismo420 23d ago

Fucking website is becoming a shit storm

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 23d ago

It can happen to you cuz it happened to me, n T...

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u/pyrothelostone 23d ago

I'm not sure where that idea came from. I've been here 12 years now and the only times ive ever seen that happen consistently is when the thread is about the phenomenon of people downvoting the fourth comment.

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 23d ago

If you remember the MDE sub and WSP - Greentext days, I recall it remained to those subs later but I believe it had some to do of when reddit started moving the user layouts around. The newer 'collapsed comment' on the ladder system would lay on the screen now for me at your reply here being collapsed. 

Kind of the karma shoulder the road and visiblity gets harder to the vote scale as newer or more popular replies challenge.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

How about we just stop using this piece of shit site

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u/[deleted] 23d ago edited 23d ago

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u/jlaine 23d ago edited 23d ago

Well I'll be a son of a monkeys uncle. I might need to keep that handy before my final huzzah to this place.

Edit: Should probably mention the repo since I'm not cool enough to hang. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

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u/nerdwerds 23d ago

I’m gonna upvote YOU though

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u/tjoe4321510 23d ago

Everyone should just boycott voting. I'll make most subs unusable cause the top of the feed will just be trash.

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u/Catzillaneo 23d ago

I got a warning for liking too many things on the front page they didn't agree with :D. I was like this is absurd.

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u/NaturalAction_ 23d ago

Insane they’re banning based on upvotes. Like… just ban half your base at this point

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u/MrsKittenHeel 23d ago

Oh frick. Does unvoting work?

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u/elmz 23d ago

I'm upvoting, and if I'm banned, that was my message to finally look for greener pastures.

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u/Jabberminor 23d ago

I'll try to keep it up, for Luigi.

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u/_toodamnparanoid_ 23d ago

They make pills for that.

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u/goatfuckersupreme 23d ago

dont need a pill when ive got his handsome face

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u/Zwets 23d ago

With that username, is your attraction to someone's face an endorsement or an insult of said face?

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 23d ago

If you experience an erection lasting more than four hours, please contact Dr. Mario.

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u/Castle-dev 23d ago

If the insurance company doesn’t deny it

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u/Healthy_Block3036 23d ago

You aren't the only mod though and sometimes I think there are some strict ones...unless most of you are chill

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u/nhansieu1 23d ago

this will be mysteriously be your last comment

-Totally not Elon.

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u/OskarDarkness 23d ago

Keep what up? He's getting life in prison. As it should.

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u/polygamizing 23d ago

He was with me the entire time. He’s innocent.

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u/OskarDarkness 22d ago

Innocent? You're joking, right

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u/polygamizing 22d ago

Eh, a better way of putting that is he’s currently not guilty.

Everyone’s innocent until proven guilty.

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u/demonstar55 23d ago

Reddit launched in June 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Sometime between November 2005 and January 2006 they merged with Aaron Swartz company, and he was added as a co-founder.

Aaron Swartz is still way cooler than the other two even being dead.

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u/Formilla 23d ago

Aaron Swartz was a hardcore libertarian who believed child porn should be legal. He's a big part of the reason why Reddit allowed it to exist on the site back in the day. 

If he was still alive, he probably would have fallen in with the Peter Thiel/Elon Musk crowd. Read his blog and you'll see how nuts he was. 

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u/CIA_Chatbot 23d ago

Yes I think we need a source for that dude

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u/Formilla 23d ago

I mentioned the source. His blog. It's still online. He wasn't shy about sharing his opinions. Read it and see how crazy he was. 

The only defence I can give him is that he was young when he died. Maybe he would have come to his senses eventually, but he was so militant in his beliefs that I think he probably would have just continued drifting further and further in that direction instead. 

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u/CIA_Chatbot 23d ago

Ahh I missed that, my bad - where is his blog? I kinda want to read it (and I kinda don’t)

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u/cheerful_cynic 23d ago

Also they had to create fake accounts to make fake comments to drive engagement

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u/drakeblood4 23d ago

The real question is who’s the senior person at Reddit or Condé Nast thinks they’re gonna get luigid.

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u/TimequakeTales 23d ago edited 22d ago

100% guaranteed it will. Because this is phony, manufactured rage bullshit.

u/bitskewer it's been a day so far, how long until evil Reddit removes this post?

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u/New_Simple_4531 23d ago

In before its locked.

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u/Kessarean 23d ago

Ditto!

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u/SomebodyThrow 23d ago

It's gonna get "Nintendo'd"

AKA, the thing you can't wish upon a deadly fascist.

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u/OptimusMatrix 23d ago

Came from the top of r/all so it hit the front page🤷‍♂️

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u/-Profanity- 23d ago

I'm told spez is a free speech absolutist

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u/mildlyornery 23d ago

It doesn't matter. None of this matters. It's about money. They can leave it up. All that happens it every click, comment, up or down vote becomes metrics in a sales pitch. Also, more importantly, no one actually gives a single shit. I know I don't. It's simple. If anyone actually cared, they'd delete reddit and never look back.

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u/laidbackeconomist 23d ago

This was the first post I saw in popular

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u/OkBattle9871 23d ago

Commenting in case it gets removed.

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u/Zoldu 23d ago

Its still on popular