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[โ€“] firead 4 points 2 years ago

I think some people did take it too far, which seems to be a problem with a lot of social justice oriented communities, in particular people who are not part of a marginalized group making decisions to ban or otherwise censure your people on behalf of that group (I've seen it on both Reddit and Facebook in relation to trans and autistic people specifically).

That said, a lot of "polite disagreements" on Reddit really are/were transphobic, and even many questions were just bait to set the stage for anti-trans rhetoric, so I can see why it was easier for mods to come down heavy-handed.

The whole trend of "You are autobanned from subreddit X because you replied to a front page post from subreddit Y" did get extremely annoying though.