Disclaimer: This is a repost from the deleted subreddit DRSyourGME.
“[Censorship is] a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas”
Welcome to reddits “moderated” GME subs, looking back at part 1 and additional information
Part 1 TL;DR: censorship is different per sub and at some subs remarkable high (see table at the bottom). We should find ways to make the community more resilient against censorship. Addition: roughly one day after part 1 reddit admins deployed censorship rules to the least censored sub.
In the first part I showed that most GME subs are heavily deleting posts. This in a range from 5% up to 60%. While the biggest subs (65k-876k members) range from 5-37% deleted posts. I found that one GME subreddit still allowed tagging subs or users, which was banned by reddit admins roughly a day after my post.
It is claimed that certain theories or authors are suppressed. Since it is not allowed to link to certain content or users, which in my point of view already is censorship, we will apply a workaround for further evidence.
We’ll take the GME subreddit with the lowest deletion rate (2%) which at the time post had roughly 10.5k subscribers. For the ten top posters of this subreddit (https://subredditstats.com/r/[INSERTSUBHERE]) we’ll check their deletion or orphanage rate with other GME subs (https://www.reveddit.com/y/[USERNAME]/?all=true&showFilters=true&removedby=anti_evil_ops%2Cmod%2Cunknown%2Cmissing%2Corphaned). Just counting results starting at least at 20 posts and comments per sub content deletion averages around 11-17% and even peaks at 41% for a single user in one sub.
Due to the nature of reddits removal mechanism those users might not even be aware of the removal or orphanage of their content (see post 1).
So, we should find ways to make the community more resilient against censorship, which necessarily needs platforms outside of reddit.
Tinfoil: They make the reddit API costly now, so analysis like this no longer possible due to the sites here used for information gathering most likely have to shut down because too expensive for them to pay the API costs.
So for reddit win? Censorship harder to prove so less bad publicity and corps with money even might pay for api access?
Since WSB GME Spike days, reddit might have gotten on the radar of some people with money tryin to influence. Hehe 😜
Absolutely, even if this wasn’t the main target, censorship gets way harder to proof. At the beginning of my DD I thought it was most likely that reddit (radmins) only acts passively. But as I finished and reddit banned DRSyourGME and more subs I now think it most likely reddit itself is deeply involved in censoring GME.