by Harpo1988

Most individuals aren’t aware of horrible the censorship on Reddit is. They think it’s nearly banning subreddits that go against the narrative. Much more insidious are all of the comments that get deleted without most individuals knowing about it. But through the use of sites resembling Unddit or Removeddit we were capable of see just what number of comments are getting removed and what they said.

On average it’s between 35%-45% of the comments on the most important subreddits. And almost not one of the comments that get removed are in violation of any written rules. They only challenge the narrative. Unfortunately as of two days ago Reddit banned the power for those sites to retrieve deleted comments. This can be a huge blow.

On May 1st, Reddit banned Pushshift from the Reddit API. Since Unddit relies on Pushshift to search out removed and deleted comments and posts, any posts made after this time will appear to have zero comments on Unddit. The official announcement is obtainable here

Someone posted a comment and deleted it while I used to be replying so here’s the comment I wrote my response to

What difference does it make? Do you seriously think those subs were going to revive the deleted comments, even in the event that they had the theoretic ability to accomplish that?

No. Nevertheless it was very eye opening for people to see just how brutal the censorship is. It discredited Reddit and it demonstrated just how anti free speech this place really is. It was great to have the option to point out those that all of the comments they see aren’t actually how people think but how Reddit wants you’re thinking that. It’s crazy how a thread could have 1000 comments but 400 of them have been removed by the mods and only a few if any actually violated the foundations.