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It comes from the politics sub, which - to put it mildly - is one of the most suspect subs for manipulation on Reddit. They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. It's one of those issues where I look at Reddit and think... something isn't right.

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>something isn't right.

Is that a pun? Because obviously reddit has a leftist bias.

According to the right, basic concepts like logic have leftist bias

It was an accidental pun. I noticed it before posting the comment and almost rewrote it. I'm not one of those people who say "no pun intended", so I just let the pun go free for others to discover.

> They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum.

Perhaps I'm not familiar with the situation. What similar subs have been banned?

The very large Donald Trump subreddit.

(I dare not link to it. It is quite toxic.)

That has not been banned (yet)

I just took a quick glance at it and it doesn't seem to be similar. Here's an item from its from page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5vx3af/ (NSFW)

I don't think I've ever seen anything like that on the politics subreddit.

r/The_Donald is banned from being a default subreddit while /r/politics is not. That matters because users without accounts or who aren't logged in will see content from r/politics if an article is trending but not an equally trending(?) article from r/The_Donald.

The reasoning behind this is that r/politics doesn't ban people or articles that the mods disagree with. It's the community itself that downvotes pro-Trump stuff. r/The_Donald, on the other hand, bans people who make comments critical of Trump and people who submit anti-Trump articles. Similarly, r/enoughtrumpspam or r/communism should also be banned from making it to the default front page (I don't know if they actually are).

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