As I'm sure most of you are aware, Reddit is now censoring Luigi's name entirely and have been giving out warnings and bans as they are considering it to be promoting violence.
As I'm sure most of you are aware, Reddit is now censoring Luigi's name entirely and have been giving out warnings and bans as they are considering it to be promoting violence.
We get it. Reddits CEO is a scared little coward.
I just got my first Luigi-upvote warning this morning. The best part is the bots don't tell you specifically which post or comment you upvoted to get you auto-flagged, so you have no idea how to navigate the minefield of their automated autoban system, they don't even take the posts down.. they leave them up as some sort of honeypot to flag as many people as possible to ban.
they need to sanitize the site so they can sell it off,
Oh no, I am sure reddit totally won't just say something like Plumber or Green instead of Luigi, making it impossible to keep auto-censoring.
will they also flag words lugia, or WALUIGI.
On reddit Mario Bros will never be the same
Are they censoring ''player two'' ''green Mario'' ''Waluigi'' or xXBIGLOUIEXx ?
The L word.
Reddit is going heavy on censoring the thought of protest. For example, I suggested throwing rotten fruit, eggs, and using a megaphone to bother JD Vance at his residence. Because, bluntly, 'polite' protest misses the whole bloody point of protest. It is all about making the people in power feel uncomfortable, and to warn them if they keep it up, people will open the 4th box.
I got banned, which will end in three days. But more importantly, it has convinced me: Reddit is controlled by those who don't understand nor value the 1st Amendment, and why it is crucial for preventing the 2nd Amendment from being exercised.
While it sucks to harass people, the alternative if things progress further is much worse.
im pretty sure reddit will perma ban you right after, ive been hearing people were immediately rebanned right after thier temp ban ended, because the filters dont even refresh after you get unbanned.
No one regrets getting banned from nazi digg.
SPez, came from oligarchy hatchery, because of his strange humanoid appearance.
When it grew exponentionally, the regime intervened as they did with Facebook and others.
Long before Trump.
All MSM is controled and social media is no different when it reaches a substancial audience.
The hard truth still many don't want to hear:
Free speech is an illusion, only allowed if you scream into the void.
Anything else they will manipulate or sabotage.
TikTok is the latest example.
You can expect the same here eventually, while the nature of it makes it more difficult the platform will be flooded with bots trying to control the narrative.https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/
Twitter: Gone, Reddit: Gone, Facebook: You are NEXT!
I received a permanent ban on Reddit a week ago for similar/like comments, suggesting something to the effect that the Trump/Musk team was something less than stellar. The Mods did not care to hear that. I wonder why?
the god emperor musk and trump is now the shrine and not open on criticism. i pointed out the politics subs did the same a while ago, they were allowing "left leaning comments" to completely be astroturf by right wingers, and induce anti-Dem articles rage.
All that it’s doing is creating the Streisand effect. Heh.
Have Reddit explained why they think simply saying Luigi is inciting violence?
Reddit is owned by rich people and they want us docile and not talk about how easy it is to end their reign.
that and teams of lawyers who are always going to recommend 'playing it safe'
I got the warning that I’m one move away from being banned from Reddit after they made these rules. It’s definitely gotten very sketchy feeling over there.
i got caught up in the ban wave last month, havnt commented any other sub since(except a super niche sub that is very lowly monitored to test if im getting shadowbanned). I usually comment in some safe subs that allows some leeway in discussion in luigi, unless they are banning people in "pro-luigi subs too"
They straight up permabanned r/popculture which was one of my favorite subs. They were banned because they showed a lot of support for Luigi. My thing is this: If it starts here, where can it lead? Billionaire republicans actually own Reddit and while they have previously opposed Trump, they only seem to be censoring leftist voices (picking and choosing what is construed as violence). I made an anti Trump comment and got a warning. We know that they all have a price to be bought. I’m thinking the Newhouse family was bought and censorship will only start here.
Here comes another wave of lemmings!
This is absolutely crazy. Luigi is not uncommon italian first name, as well as obviously a game name and a pizza brand. Reddit is rediculous.
Seems like a case could be made for racial/ethnic discrimination. They're setting themselves up for anti-discrimination lawsuits at this rate. We need to round up some Luigis, have them get banned from reddit for mentioning their name, and then sue the pants off them for discriminating against Italians.
I knew the right was regressive. But I never imagined we would go back to "No Italians Need Apply."
Imo, this is proof of how scared the corpos are of letting him become a figurehead of the fight against them. I love it.
Exactly. This is a sign of how terrified they are of Luigi. Say his name!!! LUIGI!
Nobody is asking the parasite's opinion on this topic.
Luigi is an American hero and the corpo is the enemy of the American people.
You have to be a brain dead NPC not to see these self evident facts.
The system of insurance clearly raises prices to some euclidean point where its optimizing profits versus killing customers. How do you blame CEO instead of the government, who control the insurance company regulation, the hospitals, and the money printer?
If you're expecting the good hearts of the average CEO to prevent harm to your society you're a fewel.
Oh you mean Mario’s brother‽
Green Mario
you mean waluigis other brother.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Luigi is a hero
That's weird because Luigi didn't kill anyone. He's innocent.
If I wanted to promote violence, I'd praise the still unidentified murderer of Brian Thompson.
Yea the whole thing smells like a stitch-up. Cops couldn't afford to look incompetent or let their massive manhunt drag on too long, so they did their usual thing and picked a vaguely plausible target and build a narrative to pin it on them.
Sacco and Vanzetti of the modern day.
Well done
i KNOW he is innocent as he was with me and we definitely weren't murdering anyone. whistles
Exactly!! FREE LUIGI!! LUIGI MANGIONE WAS SET UP!!
I’m here because Reddit has turned to shit. They post a rule about upvoting violence will get you banned, so upvoting a comment that says FREE LUIGI will get you banned but upvoting a video of someone getting stabbed to death or a human being turned into red paste will just be another day at the office. Let’s be real here, they only want to silence specific people without saying out loud who they want to silence.
Same, I haven’t gotten any warnings just yet, but I won’t risk it.
I was banned for being critical of Tesla. Not Elon but Tesla. They said I was promoting or glorifying violence because I said Tesla has “Enron syndrome” they denied the appeal.
I just migrated from Reddit today because a post showed a compilation of things that were removed or banned because of “violence”. It included a story about peaceful protestors at a anti Tesla rally were being arrested, a protest for women’s rights outside of blizzard, a post saying trump is trying to start war with Greenland…
They are using it as an excuse to make Reddit fascist, take down any anti-government-backed bullshit.
So you're saying a site with a history of posting videos of women getting hit "deservedly" is being disingenuous when violence is directed at the powerful? Say it ain't so.
Lu*gi
Look just because I'm in the middle of a LM/Waluigi slashfic doesn't necessarily mean I'm inciting violence. There's violence in it (Wario is an insurance exec, Luigi gets a power star, runs over Wario who explodes into coins) but I can hardly call that inciting violence. Where could someone get a power star in this day and age.
I found an article here for anyone else looking for a source that's not just a clickbait image.
This kind of thing has been a long time coming, it's why I started looking into decentralized social media in the first place. It actually feels less dangerous today than it did before the plague of GPT bots that make everyone wary of whether they're reading something written by a human or not.
I left facebook for diaspora in the early 2010s because I felt like an algorithm could influence my opinions too easily. If I see a bunch of my friends voicing one opinion, but all of my friends who voice the opposite opinion don't make it onto my feed, that will influence my own opinions regardless of how mindful I try to be about that. I was kind of addicted and it took strength to delete my account.
I started looking for reddit alternatives a couple years later for similar reasons. I'm really glad lemmy has finally taken off but things had to get a lot worse for that to happen.
Don't forget, you're subject to the same content manipulation here. Mods of many communities are biased if not outright propagandists. The echo chamber is very real. It just isn't as centralized due to the nature of the technology.
I actually don't really care about "content manipulation" per se, I'm just trying to avoid astroturfing. Every online community has moderators. I'd prefer that the moderators are people, and people have beliefs and viewpoints that they might want to push.
If Jerry the mod from Minnesota is removing posts that don't align with his beliefs I don't give that the same weight as when it's done by a multibillion dollar corporation whose belief is more profit. If fifty mods are influencing my beliefs in the exact same direction without coordinating with each other, maybe I was actually inclined to believe that in the first place. It's coordination that makes it dangerous, and there really isn't a return-on-investment for astroturfing a community of a few thousand users.
You could make an argument that this is a reason to be wary of admins of big instances like .world, but I'm skeptical even that has enough users yet for astroturfing to be worth investing in.
I actually think lemmy took off because the "content manipulation" the devs/admins were engaging in through the early years prevented it from becoming a toxic environment. Almost all the other alternative platforms were focused on minimal moderation and they became awful places as a result.
Thanks for the article link. The additional drama around the "popculture" sub subreddit just adds to the absurdity of the situation.
But what about Green Mario, who allegedly unalived a healthlord in Minecraft?
This whole "avoid the censor by using euphemisms" thing that gen Z does is fucking annoying. Stop. Don't use any platform that is censoring you.
The next names to be banned are Washington and Grant. Both used violence.
Best not touch Sherman.
“I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers […] it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated […] that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. […] I declare before God, as a man and a soldier, I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed and submissive before me, but would rather say—‘Go, and sin no more.’” - some guy before lighting Atlanta on fire
Or Brown
Really, are they truly bad if their face isn't yet on Rushmore?
Let's dox and fuck them up! Insight thanks for the head up Reddi
They are banning people for up voting Luigi, even.
Luigi is becoming more powerful as a folk hero figure by the minute.
Exodus!
Great album, that.
Is it on certain communities? Posted on prequel memes and got no such warning? Maybe the ban van is coming for me?
This looks like a moderator approval thingie. Normal users probably won't see anything like that.
We need the Fediverse now more than ever.
Bye reddit! Glad we have this place instead. I never felt quite safe with posting there.
It feels good to cut the ties. Should have done it earlier but the second best time to do something is always now. Not worth sticking around any more after this.
Shocked to be swept up in this when I never even posted or commented on the account that was banned. It's strange because now I can't even delete the account either.
They're incentivized to keep your contributions public for search indexing and AI training.
That means they probably flagged your account as a bot
I bet other platforms are likely doing something similar behind the scenes, likely pushed by the White House. When I was still working in IT Cybersecurity in 2023, we (large government defense contractors) were having to remove TikTok from all company devices at the orders of the White House/DoD, long before the larger talks of bans last year. I could see them pushing for this too, and logging the results.
Which is interesting, because when those guys were out of power, they complained about exactly that kind of government behaviour. They filled a lawsuit, and won an injunction.
Every accusation is a confession.
Its nothing new on reddit. Censorship, suspension & ban.
Pussies
They're actually giving away the whole game with this one. They're trying to stop us from doing exactly what needs to be done.
I've been referring to him as Player 2.
They should have trophies for getting flagged for breaking their rules without getting banned...
People will just use Mario's bro or whatever instead. They going to ban everything Mario related then? And if they do they'll just use Nintendo's green bro. They going to ban Nintendo from reddit then?
That's exactly how it works in China, the language is constantly evolving to go around censorship. It gets very creative actually, it's fascinating.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/chinese-take-creative-approach-internet-censorship
A new lexicon has emerged on the Chinese internet, consisting of code words, homonyms, and vocabulary laced with mockery, satire, or sarcasm. The words “empty chair” refer to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was barred by Chinese authorities from going to Oslo to accept it. Being “harmonized” means being censored, a reference to top leaders’ frequent calls for creating a harmonious society. Chinese netizens invented the “grass mud horse,” or “cao ni ma,” a mythical creature whose name sounds like a Chinese profanity. The alpaca-like creature emerged online as a symbol of resistance to censorship, setting blogs, and social sites abuzz with images, songs, and poems about it.
"Green Mario"
"Mario's Brother"
"Enemy of the CEOs"
"The only dude that makes me, a straight man, become gay"...... okay, perhaps we can leave out the last one.
Pattern matching “Luigi” is the laziest form of moderation. Reddit works with a firm and has the scale that should be able to contextualize the term if needed in their content models for Violence.
Practically Voldemort.
But you-know-who was an antihero.
Mama mia
As far as I know, the word Luigi isn't outright banned, but it does get flagged for review.
Up vs. down in full swing
Does it autodelete or does it flag for review?
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