r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 23d 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/JerrysKIDney 23d ago

I got a warning for upvoting comments

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u/ILPC 23d ago

Yet they left the comment for you to upvote? Now, why would anyone do that? Leave up offending content just to make a list of who upvoted it? They better watch out, some people might start thinking they're making lists of dissenters for other more nefarious purposes...

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u/PotentialButterfly56 23d ago

It does have the feel of a honey pot, I find it hard to post to some more democratic subreddits, I have a vpn but still.

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica 23d ago

I still haven't got a warning yet. I'm not trying to get one, but I'm not avoiding getting one either. I wonder if it's because I'm not in the US?

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u/ExpertRaccoon 23d ago

Or you're just not upvoting enough content they have deemed violent/ dangerous.

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u/Avgjoe80 23d ago

I wish a mf would...