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You had everything from (hardcore fetish) porn to hobby subreddits shutdown over the admins not banning "right wing covid disinformation" subs. I agree that not all subreddits involve politics (some even have rules against political posts) but the problem is that it's so widespread that even your niche craft subreddit can have a mod that thinks anyone cares about his opinion/online slacktivism.

The problem isn't their message or political stance, it's more than they usually bring absolutely nothing to the table and absolutely no one asked for political theory classes from the internet equivalent of an unpaid internet janitor/average random subreddit user.

It used to be mostly confined to the default subs but i guess reddit grew so much (and with most of the new users using the default subs first) that the end result was inevitable

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