Summary
Reddit’s r/medicine moderators deleted a thread where doctors and users harshly criticized murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Comments, including satirical rejections of insurance claims for gunshot wounds, targeted UHC’s reputation for denying care to boost profits.
Despite the removal, similar discussions continue, with medical professionals condemning UHC’s business practices under Thompson’s leadership, which a Senate report recently criticized for denying post-acute care.
Thompson, shot in what appears to be a targeted attack, led a company notorious for its high claim denial rates, fueling ongoing debates about corporate ethics in healthcare.
It’s bewildering that aggressively-independent media feels equally cagey about randos saying “good riddance.” Like if they allowed that, they would be forced, forced!, to let Nazis says the same about trans people.
As if having an opinion is a contradiction.
Mods of all websites: your role doesn’t even require following written rules. If your temper is slow and your bans temporary, you can go by vibes alone, and you are doing a favor to the entire community. Just deal with assholes before the rest of us have to. When “the rest of us” plainly agree that some prick’s death is more funny than tragic, silencing that is censorship for the sake of censorship, and people will seek places without you in charge.