I always get nervous when someone vaguely references their free speech. Aside from it being a poor argument against most censorship, it also doesn’t include any context. There is nothing in this post to suggest the removed comments were anything but spam and threats.

Now I do know a little bit about how Reddit mods operate, and I can fill in some gaps, but I have no reason to believe these were helpful or insightful comments that were just unpopular.

I’m all for shitting on Reddit, stupid mods, stupid AEO, etc. but this has literally 0 context as to what those comments content was and a big dosage of SAS in the title.

Edit: Not sure why this became a reply instead of a top comment.

I mean it’s a moderated forum, not a public square.

Lemmy isn’t different in this regard, and comments also get deleted here by mods.

As private property the concept of “free speech” doesn’t come into play as Reddit isn’t the US government.