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Reddit also has a Terms of Service and it has banned hate groups under such terms of service.>So of course moderation seems biased when your views are hateful to begin with.
It doesn't seem biased, it is biased. Reddit's policy on "hate groups" is both sexist and racist, according to one of their employees, and their actual practices.
"Our rule1 protects groups that are attacked based on a vulnerability, which doesn't pertain to white people or men as a group." Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/NgOxEg0.png
What is rule 1?
"Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned." (https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy)
So in practice, the policy is actually:
"Remember the non-white male human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking non-white people or women. Everyone except white people and men have a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate against non-white people or women will be banned."
These days I automatically assume that anything reddit bans as a "hate group" was nothing of the sort. Hate groups are perfectly allowed on reddit, if you hate the correct people. Here's a sample of currently active ones:
* https://old.reddit.com/r/FragileWhiteRedditor/
* https://old.reddit.com/r/FragileMaleRedditor/
* https://old.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/
* https://old.reddit.com/r/AreTheStraightsOK/
There are a bunch of fragile$GROUP subs that redirect to FragileWhiteRedditor or FragileMaleRedditor too, here's a fun example: https://old.reddit.com/r/fragileblackpeople/ The sole post says "Nope. Nice try /r/FragileWhiteRedditor." These subs all make it really obvious that the real policy is not the one in the official policy, but the one that exempts men and white people as a group from any protections.