Comment by ahappypoop on 29/06/2020 at 17:55 UTC

18 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

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The banned subreddits weren't banned for being propaganda, they were banned for inciting violence. In general, if they banned subs that were just propaganda for things they didn't like, it would be censorship and going against the original Reddit purpose of being a place for free speech. That's why this whole thing is so hard in the first place, because there's a balance they have to strike between being pro-free speech, which is what Reddit was founded on, and not being a place that harbors hateful people who incite violence.

Anyways, all that to say that none of the things you just listed are bannable offenses. Yes the Chinese government is horrible, but as long as people in the sub aren't inciting violence or being racist (and the subreddit as a whole would have to be shown to be a place that repeatedly harbors and encourages these people, rather than it being a few isolated people that get removed and banned) then supporting a horrible government is not against the rules.

I'd also like to make the disclaimer that I don't spend any time in that sub so I don't actually know if they're a racist and violent community, I'm just going off of what you said in your comment and trying to give a bigger context for what Reddit is dealing with.

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Comment by Justice_R_Dissenting at 29/06/2020 at 20:02 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

/r/Sino very regularly denigrates any non-Chinese person and is pretty severely racist against other ethnicities.

Comment by [deleted] at 29/06/2020 at 18:14 UTC

11 upvotes, 10 direct replies

Thats what they said was the reason, but quite a few of those suns were not inciting violence. For example, r/ConsumeProduct was basically just about bettering your life by quitting your addictions to products, planting your own food, simplifying your life. They also spoke out about the dangers of pornography and the porn industry. Zero reason for a ban.