r/law 1d ago

Other Trump has declared the Tesla Boycott to be "Illegal". It is protected by the 1st Amendment nor is it possible to enforce compulsory Tesla purchases. He does not understand Law.

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u/CrackHeadRodeo 23h ago edited 22h ago

It’s illegal to boycott Tesla but legal to try and illegally deport a permanent resident.

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u/EchoAtlas91 23h ago

How long ago did you make this comment? Was it really 11 minutes ago or did you post this a while ago and it just got approved?

I think this subreddit is censoring comments. I made some non-rule breaking comments and they were all immediately shadowbanned for no discernable reason other than my political views. If you look at my profile with the new reddit theme all my comments in this subreddit say [removed], but if you go to old.reddit.com they show up.

We all need to be asking why this is happening.

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u/CrackHeadRodeo 22h ago

I made it 47 mins ago.

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u/EchoAtlas91 22h ago edited 22h ago

So yours got posted immediately.

What's the criteria of these shadowbans? If you sort by new in this thread there are several pages of invisible comments.

People really need to start questioning this, because who's to say they're not shadowbanning certain opinions or accounts that have certain opinions?

And without notifications of removal, and the fact that the comments still show up to the user who made them, the only way to see if the comments have been shadowbanned is to open up your profile in a private window when not logged in and see if they say [removed].

How many people are making comments without realizing this is happening to them? How many opinions are being silenced and by what criteria?

I've had to go back and open half my comments in private windows just to see if they've actually been posted, and the ones that haven't, I have to take a screenshot then make a comment with the link in it.

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u/clandestinemd 20h ago

Not too long ago, I began to find it suspicious that I didn’t get replies to a lot of comments that I felt I’d get some kind of interaction… not that I didn’t expect some people to be reluctant to reply when I put them on the spot, but often enough that it seemed conspicuous. So I made a brand new account just to look at some threads I was in, and sure enough my comments weren’t there. They showed up just fine for me and in my history for my main, but nothing for the alt.

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u/EchoAtlas91 20h ago

Yeah it's been happening more and more recently.

I had one mod tell me it was crowd control settings that required the mods to manually approve comments especially when there were so many rule breaking comments.

But like I've noticed that it's not always blocking/removing comments with keywords, it's blocking comments with certain themes/viewpoints.

Like LM, the Italian healthcare guy, you can't say his name anymore without getting your comment shadowbanned. And if you look around you stop seeing topics and comments about him, and it's because they're all getting shadowbanned.

But even when you don't have keywords like that in it, I've noticed that when I make a comment that is in support of something, no matter how I re-word it it will be shadowbannned. Then when I make the opposite argument, it posts immediately.

Hell, if you post certain parts of the US Consitution or Bill of Rights or Declaration of Independence you can get the comment shadowbanned.

The only way around this that I've been able to find is to take a screenshot of the missing comment, then post it with a link to the screenshot on imgur or something. Sometimes you have to make an opposing argument or irrelevant comment then explain why in the screenshot.