>ah yes, making fun of people dying is okay as long as you obscure the names!
Yes. You've made up an imaginary enemy in your head and you are talking down to others based on the imaginary Reddit company in your head.
The reason those other communities were banned were for targeted harassment, doxing of real people, and brigading other subreddits. Reddit has never stated that they were any rules on the "morality" of the content. The communities that are still around have not broken those rules yet.
So then what is the defense for a similar subreddit that made fun of people that died after getting the vaccination. They followed the same "rules" you seem to claim here, they did not doxx anyone, they did not harass anyone, they did not brigade other subreddits, most of it was just side by side tweets of a person positing the vaccination announcement followed by a notification they died a few day later...
>the only speech moderation we should be worried about on any site is illegal speech
I never said that. I, for one, am not a free speech absolutist, and I think those that pretend they are, are children of the Facebook era of online discourse. I am iterating once again, that Reddit has clear rules and those rules have largely been executed without political bias. If your favorite subreddit got banned, they were very likely violating those rules.
Yes. You've made up an imaginary enemy in your head and you are talking down to others based on the imaginary Reddit company in your head.
The reason those other communities were banned were for targeted harassment, doxing of real people, and brigading other subreddits. Reddit has never stated that they were any rules on the "morality" of the content. The communities that are still around have not broken those rules yet.