In the runup to the 2024 US election, there was an article about a dramatic surge in voter registrations just as Biden stepped out and Kamala replaced him. I posted it to !notvoting@slrpnk.net and it got removed. Censorship was a dick move and an abuse of power, but at least the mod DMed me to explain why. Most mods are not decent enough to make their censorship transparent.
His rationale was to claim irrelevance to the topic.
Of course, that’s nonense. Voting and not voting are both relevant to communities about voting and not voting. To a “not voting” community, a surge in voter registrations is “bad news” but it’s still relevant news. I said that to the mod, to which there was no response.
It is a manipulated scenario of controlling the narrative. Making sure that only one viewpoint is represented to the point of blocking relevant news from reputable news sources (and discussion thereof).
I did not even write a comment in favor of or against… I simply linked the article. The mod was simply angry at facts.
I frankly don’t get this community. For a not voting community there sure only talk about this!
I’d say having more people vote could be a topic to discuss there, but if the mods don’t agree, there’s not much you can do. Wouldn’t say it’s censorship, maybe they just want to promote not voting or something, which is, yea, a kind of censorship
I would advise against participating in communities that are biased towards one side, the other, not voting at all…