I got an account strike the other day and a post removed “by Reddit” according to the message for saying something to the effect of “protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn’t mean much to those in power these days” on a thread about some ongoing protests.
Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.
I think threats of violence actively detract from the value of protests, its kind of achieving the opposite of its goal when you promote yourself as the enemy of the people you’re asking to change.
That’s why Fox News displays every protest as a riot, to lessen their effectiveness and to mobilize opposition.
My accounts were permabanned because Trump said Liz Cheney deserved to be shot, and I said I didn’t care because she’s called for the deaths of millions of people overseas. Banned for “advocating violence,” simply because I didn’t clutch my pearls that a warmonger was threatened.
I got an account strike the other day and a post removed “by Reddit” according to the message for saying something to the effect of “protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn’t mean much to those in power these days” on a thread about some ongoing protests.
Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.
I think threats of violence actively detract from the value of protests, its kind of achieving the opposite of its goal when you promote yourself as the enemy of the people you’re asking to change.
That’s why Fox News displays every protest as a riot, to lessen their effectiveness and to mobilize opposition.
You’re probably right, must be time to be done with mere “protests”… How do threats of violence affect revolutions?
Hopefully soon we’re done asking the enemies of the people to play nice
You should take a gander at how revolutions affect governments.
(90% chance everything gets worse for at least a century)
My accounts were permabanned because Trump said Liz Cheney deserved to be shot, and I said I didn’t care because she’s called for the deaths of millions of people overseas. Banned for “advocating violence,” simply because I didn’t clutch my pearls that a warmonger was threatened.