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Looks like they figured out that censorship is effective.

Which is why so many people are upset at the level of censorship happening online.

A specific flavor of censorship, where you identify and ban the most important members, leaving the community to slowly die. A well known technique, probably adapted from methods used in intelligence circles, that's much more successful than banning the community outright.

I'm sorry you don't have enough places to talk to bigoted people online, have you tried TOR?

As an example, this idea that being awful when you use the favoured epithets instead of the disfavoured ones is somehow acceptable in public is the deeper problem.

> bigoted

Reddit permanently banned my account for _upvoting_ covid vaccine hesitancy (which is turning out to be accurate).

That's insane, I had no idea that Reddit had gone that far. It's pretty crazy that just registering agreement with an idea is enough to be censored. It's like wrongthink from 1984.

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