Evidence of REDDIT-style censorship currently on VOAT (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by mHtt

Had a reddit account for over 8 years, not one comment deleted ever. Came to voat about 4 months ago after reading the How Reddit Was Destroyed (ver3.0) thread And this weekend I got my first ever notice of a comment deleted!

Much to my dismay I was curious, did I accidentally violate Swiss laws? Did I mistakenly dox someone? what little comment of mine could warrant such derision? Well low and behold my comment from this thread in fat people hate, where I point out the futility of shaming people in a forum they'll never see it, in the hopes of helping them loose weight.

Some FPH mods actually believe they are helping people

I've been in the FPH community for about 6 months, and considered it my reddit home. Anti-obesity it's something I feel very strongly about, not just from a FPH fat-shaming standpoint, but also from a "how do we solve the obesity problem" active standpoint.

and all I did was point out that logic is futile if they never see the content directed towards them.

Low and behold I make a thread on v/voat discussing my comment deletion

and who turns up?

FPH mod: @12_Years_A_Toucan openly states:

We don't allow people who are there to fight, argue, and comment dissenting opinions to the community and our community likes it that way

AAAAAAND another FPH MOD confirming censorship:

user @ https://voat.co/user/SportyStrawberry: posted

DING DING DING!

YES we censor dissenting opinions from our subverse, as is our right. We have never claimed otherwise. Are you daft?

So there you have it folks see for yourself how this community thinks it's better than the down voat button. Think it can decide what you can and can't read. Feast your eyes on CENSORSHIP.

MUAHAHAHA

i had fun writing this time to play tf2 a bit and let some comments roll in. :)

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Canaduck ago

I'll copy past from my post there

"Rules" are vague justifications for censorship now? Amazing. We'd all be better off moderators like those shown in this thread stopped with their own theocracies and ideas of how to run a subverse. You are still part of Voat, so abide by the SITE-WIDE GOAL, or you know make your own website and stop using other peoples hard work and ideas to fuel your own petty zealotry.

Censorship of any kind isn't allowed unless it is illegal content. If a subverse can ban people and delete comments for no good reason, then that subverse shouldn't have any upvoat/downvoat capabilities because its just a fucking garbage echo chamber circle jerk.

tl;dr : Subverses can have their own rules as long as they don't violate Voat's main goal.

12_Years_A_Toucan ago

You wanna back that up or just spout your nonsense opinion?

Canaduck ago

I don't have to anything for you and fedora collection.

12_Years_A_Toucan ago

So that's a no. Learn how this stuff works.

Canaduck ago

dons armor of the whitest metal You will NOT talk to a m'lady like that! You worthless piece of shit, I will fucking destroy you, I am the top brony in all of the brony fanclubs in America, with over 300 confirmed hentai drawings of flutter shy. I will blog about you so hard and will tip my fedora to hard [name]will become my waifu. You see jocky chads like you were always taking all the girls from us gentle sirs, in highschool because of your swag. But now the matured ladies have realized that class is timeless, while swag is only only. Do not make me use my katana, you fucking pleb.

After a post like that, how could anyone take you seriously? I bet you wear adult diapers.

pikeymick ago

Oh man that's pure gold!

12_Years_A_Toucan ago

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE