The same is true for swedish subreddits. /r/sweden for example is also heavily pushed by Reddit as all new users from swedish ips automatically is subbed to that subreddit.
I stopped using Reddit because of the increased amount of censorship and bans for thinking the incorrect stuff and as someone else said my life is better for it.
Reddit was once a beacon of freedom of speech and today it is a tool to supress freedom of speech and thoughts that go against the mainstream.
Not sure what your issue is. I find r/sweden pretty okay, not perfect but tolerable. They don't allow outright hate speech which is btw illegal anyway. Misinformation is usually not deleted but often called out and down voted by members. I am 100% okay with that.
r/sverige on the other hand is run by a really angry uncle who probably doesn't like most people.
r/okpolarncp is basically incels and nazis. It is too promoted to front page...
It sounds like they dissent from those opinions and you don't so you're fine with it and they're not. As Chomsky said "Everyone is in favour of freedom of speech for speech they agree with".
Since I'm quoting people, J.S. Mill wrote down what the problem is for all of us when this happens:
> If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
I wouldn't call any discussion where wrongthink gets you excluded to be open.
With Reddit's voting mechanism there's really no great need to censor anything unpopular since the system fudges consensus and anything that even the slightest subset of users finds disagreeable winds up downvoted into oblivion unless there's an equally large subset voting for it.
> I personally want open discussion within boundaries. So does the law.
The Taliban want discussion within boundaries, so does the law. It's a valid statement yet provides no insight into whether those boundaries are the same or even of the same category.
Would you support Reddit, as an American company, setting its boundaries for speech to the same limits as American law?
> There are other subs that promote hate and ban everyone not agreeing with their narrative. What do you feel about them?
It is your opinion that they promote hate, and you also assume that it being hateful is wrong. Mixing up opinion with fact and not checking your assumptions is a sure route to a belief in infallability, which Mill also warns against.
I am against (in general) bans for simple disagreement, but there is more than one way to silence those you disagree with, especially if you have power over media of communication as these mods and admins do.
> You are reading this completely wrong!
That may be so but you are working hard to give me the impression that you have a tendency to mix up your opinions with facts. If not for the need to avoid irony, at least avoid this so you don't appear so rude.
They have, at least when I used to be a regular, deleted tons and tons of threads because they had an political incorrect opinion stated. They banned a lot of users for no real reason and revamped the rules many times in order to silence peoples opinions that were widespread on the sub.
Now afaik there is only people like themselves (and presumably yourself) left, I wonder why? Reddit itself took a stance a while ago for specific political opinions and removed a lot of subs that I was subscribed to. Many others were famously quarantines like /r/theredpill and others. If you simply upvote the incorrect thing you can be banned. This is basically punishing thoughts.
You can't claim freedom of speech if you silence a very large group of people from speaking.
I hate that law and consider it to be a violation of free speech but I do not consider it to be hate speech. You can hate disabled people how much you want for example.
> After complaining some years ago, the mod team was rearranged and now contains people from a wide political spectrum.
Yeah.. that is just a load of bs.
> Maybe Reddit is not your private echo chamber and resits your extreme ideas?
This is just the thing. As soon as you have deviating opinions, now you're instantly extreme. Do you know that I consider the Reddit rules and ideas extreme?
What people like you doesn't seem to understand is the wind is only blowing in your direction for now, it will not stay like that forever. It's sad that people have forgotten the importance of free speech and that censorship has been popularized.
Sometimes it really feels like people read 1984 and brave new world as instruction manuals.
I stopped using Reddit because of the increased amount of censorship and bans for thinking the incorrect stuff and as someone else said my life is better for it.
Reddit was once a beacon of freedom of speech and today it is a tool to supress freedom of speech and thoughts that go against the mainstream.