Comment by lazydictionary on 01/09/2021 at 17:46 UTC

114 upvotes, 14 direct replies (showing 14)

View submission: COVID denialism and policy clarifications

Well, thanks for banning that sub months later than it should have been, for *brigading*, instead of all the misinformation they posted.

Task failed successfully I guess.

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Comment by President_Barackbar at 01/09/2021 at 19:37 UTC

18 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Its the same deal with The_Donald when they banned it. They waited long after most of the users had abandoned it to come out and talk about how it should've been gone all along.

Comment by Typhloon at 02/09/2021 at 04:45 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Right?

Indirectly killing people by spreading complete lies and misinformation? That's okay.

But brigading? Nah, inexcusable.

For the record, I don't even know what brigading means, but I do know what it means to lie about the facts of a virus during its pandemic outbreak.

Comment by krudam at 02/09/2021 at 05:52 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I doubt they banned it for brigading, that's a cover excuse. There are approved brigading subs. It's so they don't look like hypocrites for saying they'll leave subs open for debate and then ban the sub a few days later.

Comment by LoveMyHusbandsBoobs at 01/09/2021 at 23:33 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I wonder how much blood is on reddit's hands from letting that sub spread misinformation about a virus that has killed millions of people.

Comment by GabeTheBabePlotkin at 02/09/2021 at 10:51 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Brigading is just an excuse. Been like that for years now.

Comment by redstaplerisred at 02/09/2021 at 03:20 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

These admin might as well be the politicians spreading these lies and frankly, I hope they get to experience the worst of this pandemic for obviously choosing profits over the welfare of the community that made them rich.

Comment by [deleted] at 01/09/2021 at 19:58 UTC

-2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

The DEA, CDC, FBI, WHO, and pretty much all government experts agree that marijuana is bad. From their view point, all the marijuana "misinformation" on Reddit is a major factor driving drug abuse, causing preventable deaths, and prolonging the War on Drugs. Reddit has been letting it run wild for a decade and a half here.

You might not want to be rooting for stamping out misinformation. Because now the official marijuana experts who send people to prison see how to dam the ocean of marijuana misinformation they see on Reddit.

Comment by CaptainTarantula at 01/09/2021 at 23:13 UTC

-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Using that logic, we should ban any sort of echo chamber on reddit. This is assuming echo chambers are hallmarked by misinformation.

People believe random people (anti and pro vaxers alike) on the internet instead of clinicians and scientists. That's the real problem. Trying to ban misinformation is a losing game of whack-a-mole that can easily stifle normal debates and even free speech as a side affect.

In other words, you can't fix stupid.

Comment by [deleted] at 01/09/2021 at 19:52 UTC

-2 upvotes, 3 direct replies

So many countless grannies died because of the cuck mods being too afraid to ban the dangerous wrongthink.

Comment by HeroicVolunteer at 02/09/2021 at 14:57 UTC

0 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Brigading is the only bannable offense they’ve participated in. You don’t seem to understand the rules very well, for a rule worshipper at least

Comment by everythingscost at 02/09/2021 at 02:08 UTC

-1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

oh i would love for them to try to cite and prove misinformation there

oh they can't thats why no one ever showed up to do so and then banned it to keep people from seeing