> I was banned from r/conservative in a discussion about trump handling the coronavirus seriously. I posted a timeline of quotes from him "only 15 cases soon to be none etc" indicating he had not taken it seriously early.
This should be all anyone needs to know about how seriously these groups takes freeze peaches. Look at their actions, not their words.
Um... you don't normally get an objective account of why someone was banned from the banned person in question.
Don't just take a claim like this as the whole story, they are generally in "tidied up" form.
You'd want the text of the post, the person's posting history on the forum in question, a list of warnings etc and a copy of the forum rules to even approach a reasonable judgement.
They also label most discussions now as "Flaired users only!" and to get flair you have to prove you're a conservative.
It's not about free speech and being oppressed, it's a literal safe space - which is fine, but selling themselves as the opposite of that just makes them look foolish.
To be clear, /r/conservative forces potential commenters to hold interviews with current members to vet their ideological purity. If at any point they flip-flop on an issue they will ban you for ideological impurity if you do not flip-flop your position accordingly. It may well be the most heavily censored board on Reddit.
Other subreddits have started to do this too, r/BlackPeopleTwitter has "Country Club Threads" where you can only comment if you've proven to the mod team that you are a person of color, which is.. interesting.
You're assuming the people doing the banning and the people defending speech are the same people. Or even if some of them are, that they represent everyone who supports the same political views.
This should be all anyone needs to know about how seriously these groups takes freeze peaches. Look at their actions, not their words.