Reddit is shadowbanning comments containing links to alternative sites.

I discovered this some two

weeks ago when user on my subreddit asked several questions, including any resources on
reactionary ideology I had. My response included a number of YouTube links, as well as a link to a
BitChute channel. It posted normally, but when I came back several hours later, the comment was
gone. I reposted it, but it got – automatically – removed again. All my attempts to get the comment
back up failed.
List of videos and channels was as follows:
• https://www.youtube.com/c/TumblarHouse/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9mnprK8vtFuHkHyl_ffCw/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/c/Charlemagne_III/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsKBqLQmB1aCVuUC3e14riA/featured
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWRClsBI3p9gnYO8UBst2g
• https://www.youtube.com/c/MorgothsReview1/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDistributist/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkzHxIcfoEr69MWBdo0ppg/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqBN8cSd6hfwqq0BM2biXOg/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkAgeTheorist/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbiEAICCX-lyat0IOUIbyCA/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9mnprK8vtFuHkHyl_ffCw/videos
• https://www.bitchute.com/channel/NJ5ax7ZIMocc/
I did some research, and as it turns out, this is nothing new or unusual. Reddit has been secretly
removing posts and comments containing links to the alternative media sites such as BitChute for
some time already. BitChute links had been banned all across Reddit. Mods are not able to override
these blocks. The only way to post a bitchute source in Reddit is to do it verbally, that is, to name
the title of the video and say it is on the BitChute. Any attempts at direct linking will get the post or
the comment shadowbanned. And it is shadowbanning. The comment looks like it posted when you
post it, and if moderators see it in their spam filter and try to approve it, it looks approved, but it's
not if we go back and check. My comments only got through after I removed the BitChute link from
the list of channels.
Reddit is hardly the only such platform. Youtube is shadowbanning the comments which contain the
word BitChute. In the words of ThreedOgg at Reddit: "I posted a comment the other day warning
the uploader that his video will just get taken down again, so that he would just be better off
uploading it to Bitchute. Then came back the next day to see other comments there had hearts and
mine was the only one that didn't. So i pulled up youtube in another browser with a different
account, and my comment wasn't even there! But was still visible from my original account, so i
deleted it and posted another comment with the "i" in Bitchute switched out with "í" and switched
out the "a" in shadow banned just in case. And it was visible on the alt account!". GooTube is quite
active at shadowbanning content, consciously manipulating the viewers into "forgetting" about
troublesome content producers, because they are simply not appearing in the feed anymore. The
Corbett Report had been shadowbanned for years now, and gradually to an increasing extent. Not
only is YouTube hiding his videos, but also automatically unsubscribing people from his channel.
All mainstream social networks are in on the trick. Facebook, as far back as 2018., admitted that
"we demote individual posts etc. that are reported by FB users and rated as false by fact checkers.
This means they lose around 80% of their future views. We also demote pages and domains that
repeatedly share false news.". Twitter has long denied this, but its former employees had stated,
multiple times, that Twitter does indeed shadowban posts – people keep posting, but nobody can see
their content.
Unlike Twitter, Reddit openly engages in shadowbanning. It is possible to shadowban users, but
also comments on individual posts. The user still sees the comment, as if it is there, but nobody else
will see it. In other cases, the comments may get deleted automatically, as already described.
This all comes back to Edward Bernays' book "On Propaganda", which outright states that "The
conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an
important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society
constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country". And this is
effective. People are creatures of habit, and it is rare for YouTube followers to actively search for
Reddit for shadowbanned authors. As Bernays states, "civilization is limited by inertia"; alternative
media may well be driven into the ground by inertia, because majority of people are not willing to
take an active action to try and search for reliable sources of information. Majority of people would
rather be misinformed than to actively move from Youtube to BitChute, or from Twitter to Gab.
But the censorship is slowly tightening, and alternative content is ever harder to come by on the
mainstream media. If you want the truth, you have to actively seek it.