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Certain mods will delete comments and hand out bans for advancing political opinions or posting stories they disagree with. For example /r/news[3] is notorious for censoring stories related to the TPP.
What you forget is that these are still subreddits, and the moderators can choose how to moderate, or censor the information they want to. Because they moderate it.
I don't personally agree with mods doing that, but I'm not going to say that admins should step in and say "No, don't censor certain adverse opinions."
That's what make subreddits good, and bad. Mods who do the right thing, and those who don't. Don't like /r/news or /r/politics? Find another subreddit with a similar ideology without the stupid moderators. I'm sure there's a /r/truenews, or /r/truepolitics.
Again, I don't agree with moderators censoring opposing opinions, but I also don't agree with admins being able to step in over that. Don't like the subreddit, find a new one, or make your own.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/08/2015 at 00:12 UTC*
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Comment by kochevnikov at 06/08/2015 at 04:28 UTC
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This is an extremely naive defence of moderator fiefdom.
Especially in large politically oriented subs, moderator censorship needs to be kept to a minimum. Politics is fundamentally different from other types of discussions in this sense in that political discussion cannot exist without disagreement. If you don't like how the sub of Pokemon or something is being modded, sure make your own. It's of a fundamentally different nature when a political sub with 6 million subscribers is being censored by a small team of mods with absolutely no accountability.
Politically speaking you can't simply say start your own, that's fundamentally not how politics operates. That's like saying to someone criticizing some government policy or another "don't like it here, move to another country!" it's a fundamentally anti-political statement that seeks to quash political discussion instead of foster it.
The admins need to consider these set of problems related to mods that I pointed out, especially if there is going to be any place for politically-oriented subs on reddit in the future.