For what it's worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can't track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It's sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.
It's hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT's stock price today, down 9% today alone lol, -31% in the last 30 days. A third of their stock value lost in the past month, very impressive.
I'm on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn't violate any ToS, they just didn't agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):
Woke Authoritarianism
This refers to the enforcement of progressive or "woke" ideology through authoritarian means, such as:
Censorship of dissenting views
Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)
Thought Policing
This term comes from George Orwell's 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people's thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:
Policing language to ensure ideological purity
Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization
And a followup response:
Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.
Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.
Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.
Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.
Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.
ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn't even know "Woke Authoritarianism" was an actual term.
If one were so inclined you could have many 5318008s on the screen back in the TI-84-85-86 days. Or write a graphing formula to draw them.. my teachers didn't appreciate that very much.
People have had many of those cars long before any of this happened though? You're saying people should have seen this coming 6 years in advance or something?
Aren't they destroying regular citizens' private property by doing all of this or are you only focusing on the dealership arson events and not the masses of other events?
Seems like a safe haven for the extreme leftists who trespassed, vandalized, and stole various things off my neighbor's yards this last election season. The left are 100% fully unhinged now and will commit assault, and many other crimes simultaneously like a child throwing a temper tantrum, except they are more dangerous than a child. It's unfortunate to witness in my own community. But this is where the leftist extremists tend to huddle together it seems.
That's unfortunate, hopefully more instances with more centrist views pop up eventually, I might have to make the first of many. The irony is that the extreme lefties online think that centrists are extreme-right-wing somehow. Boggles the mind.
It's strange that we can't judge people based off of their words, we have to somehow know their gender ideology through some miracle of long distance mind reading instead of just analyzing the content itself, regardless of anything else. Seems like people have lost the plot these days.
I was referring to the posts, if you read my original comment I said nothing about trans or gender identity whatsoever. Hexbear when I signed up did not advertise itself as "trans only" or "trans centric" or anything gender related, so I was not aware. Please help me understand where you are getting those ideas. If anything it seems like if I consider a community similar to my behavioral health clinic experiences to be "transphobia" then you are insulting them as well. Again, we never discussed gender identity in the clinics.
I've been in an insane asylum before, we didn't have gender identity as part of the program there.. everyone was shacked up together regardless of gender or identity, no doors allowed on any rooms or showers or anything. No contact with the outside world, no internet, no TV, no movies, no music, no books, nothing allowed. I was just noticing similar behavior to all of us at the asylum, that is all, it had nothing to do with gender or trans people whatsoever as we never talked about any of that in the asylum either. But okay, friend, I hope you have a great day.
In the insane asylum we didn't care about genders, we were all shacked up together regardless of identity or sex at birth, no doors were allowed on rooms or showers or anything, so I'm not sure where I'd be insulting genders with that statement.
Would just be nice to be able to have open dialogue instead of all this tribalism and rage and arson and violence and assault and whatnot. Seems like a fair ask but everyone has lost their minds lately it seems.
To be fair I would say a mass-orchestrated event of committing arson and destruction of private property across the nation should be classified as domestic terrorism.. if you remove politics from the equation, it's still terrorism.
That seems to be the general direction at this point. reminds me of r/HailCorporate, calling out posts that are really advertisements but don't explicitly tell you they are.
The irony is that reddit ripped off digg's original UI nearly 95% identically. I hope they keep a similar format because the Digg redesign sucked and everyone hopped over to reddit, then reddit made that god-awful new UI that I can't even bother to use at all (you can opt out of the 'new design' in your user preferences/settings) but at this point, reddit is practically useless anymore. They'll probably be censoring any links to digg once it comes back up as people tell other users that there's a reddit alternative.
That's what I think happened to me, seems weird that so many of us are getting banned at the same time. It's different for me though, I get banned or downvoted to oblivion if I express any right wing ideas. It's 98% leftist there now it seems. Wouldn't surprise me if they ban r/conservative entirely this year.
For what it's worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can't track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It's sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.