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Day 6 Behind the anger on the Reddit Canada site (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Interesting insights into how controlled the narrative is in /r/canada on Reddit. One of the things that struck me was that there’s no self posts in /r/canada unlike many other countries’ and provinces’ subreddits. It would be nice if we differentiated ourselves here on Lemmy with more self posts

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[–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I left r/canada even before I left reddit. The final straw was when I saw links to a report from Citizen Lab, a very respectable Canadian research group at U of T, about a foreign government interfering in Canadian affairs, getting deleted for not being "relevant to Canada."

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I got banned for archiving a conservative politicians leadership campaign website and publishing it when they started telling lies about their policy positions.

    'Not relevant'

    My final ban came when I pointed out a known white supremacist was saying racist stuff. They temp banned me, a mod (a different one, the white supremacist one) challenged me to explain it, and then fully banned me when I didn't reply, which I couldn't do... Because they banned me.

    On that subreddit, racist shit was okay but calling something racist was not.

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