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Honestly, I’m not as concerned with Reddit. It allows a greater degree of self-selection, it has community moderation, and bots are easier to spot.

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It's the community moderation that's a problem on Reddit, because any kind of dissenting opinion is immediately wiped out, when it goes against the group think. And the group think is leaning very heavily to the left on Reddit.

The most prominent example is supporters of Donald Trump being forced off-site, but any kind of conservative or right-leaning community or politically incorrect community is being forced out.

I was there for about 10 years, and a few months ago my account got temp-banned because I said a naughty word. So I deleted my account and left the place for good. Some people on the extreme right have congregated elsewhere, but I'm not sure where right-leaning centrists are supposed to go.

> I was there for about 10 years, and a few months ago my account got temp-banned because I said a naughty word.

What was the word?

> The most prominent example is supporters of Donald Trump being forced off-site, but any kind of conservative or right-leaning community or politically incorrect community is being forced out.

Do you have any concrete examples of this? I won't pretend I'm up to speed on the subject but this just strikes me as incredibly heavily exaggerated.

I just had a look at /r/reclassified and saw that /r/GavinMcInnes has been banned. He's a conservative talkshow host. While I was still around, /r/ClownWorld and /r/CringeAnarchy got banned too. Both were critical of extreme leftwing politics, while being politically incorrent.

/r/SargonOfAkkad is quarantined, meaning it's circling the drain before being banned.

Actually just browsing /r/reclassified sorted by top posts brings up a lot of examples. It's not all political of course, there are literal CP subs getting axed like /r/AgePlayPenpals, but banned subreddits are overwhelmingly either conservative, anti-feminist or edgy or equivalent.

I hope you realize your personal Overton window will appear to many, here and elsewhere, as more of a slanted slit.

Angela Merkel is a right-leaning centrist where I'm from. I'll leave it at that.

The point of the original article is that almost all right-wing politics is saturated in disinformation. The particular combination of disinformation, racism, and incitement to violence or disruption that characterised the_donald, and their persistent inability to rein it in despite the site admins begging them to, led to them getting banned. It is entirely their own fault. Just as I can work up no sympathy for those with self-inflicted bleach injuries due to being stupid enough to listen to him.

> not sure where right-leaning centrists are supposed to go

Given that's basically Biden's Democrat party, I don't think they're an endangered species just yet.

(There is also a disinformation problem on the left, but nowhere near as prevalent in the mainstream politics and news organisations, and a non-aligned smattering of nonsense such as the anti-5G campaign)

I disagree with you, and I think you're wrong, but I suspect political arguments of this nature are extremely offtopic on HN. If I'm going to make enemies here, I'd like it to be over my intense dislike of JavaScript, Docker and Apple, and not over my political persuasions.

In closing, before anyone puts me in a category I don't belong: I'm not american, and I don't follow or care particularly about american politics.

> before anyone puts me in a category I don't belong: I'm not american, and I don't follow or care particularly about american politics

Then why the f are you commenting on it? Don't comment on things you don't know about, especially the politics of a country not your own.

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