Just discovered that admins are removing resource-content on the subreddit. Both the DPRK and China megathreads that are in the sidebar have been removed, probably others too.
I doubt this is unique to only /r/communism, /r/communism101 is probably going to be hit as well.
Why are they saying they are banning it?
Use of "admins" usually indicates a reference to the owners and administrators of reddit itself as a whole rather than "mods" of the sub, locally. The people who own reddit are reactionaries, capitalists, and silicon valley techbros at best and outright fascists at worst. They would ban communists spaces and erase our resources for the same reason they banned the old chapo sub: they don't want collectivist ideology to spread, and don't even want to allow for any pushback whatsoever against reactionary/neoliberal discourse site-wide. Non-socialists always have to act to suppress leftist discourse because it is really the only sane ideological slant that is humane, and is generally agreeable to the majority of people once they can start to see past indoctrination and propaganda. It is discussed elsewhere, but people have noted distinct rightward shifts in the discourse of all sorts of subs since r/cth was banned. It is no surprise that it finally got quarantined and ultimately banned after it started to make waves on the front page of r/all. If you are able to look back at some of the charts, r/cth was basically experiencing exponential growth in terms of its readership.
I understand why they want to ban it, I don't understand the justification.
There is no justification. This content was silently removed and is showing on third party removal sites as "spam filter" which indicates reddit's admin team manually did it as the spam filter doesn't automatically remove old extremely popular posts.
I've reached out and asked the mod team but not yet received a response, doubt they will want to rush a any public response if they're now being targeted and want to try and keep the community.
Ah, I haven't seen a justification for it yet, not that they really need to give one. They did the chapo banwave with a "both sides" argument. What I can tell you is that the megathread was originally posted by one u/albanianbolshevik (see here) and that that account has been "suspended" (which I think means banned by the admins) see here. TBH for all we know, it could have simply been automatically removed due to the user's ban.
Content posted by banned users doesn't get removed when the user is banned.
Damn dude albanianbolshevik was a great poster.
Because, like the poster you dismissed said, it's uncovering imperialist lies.
Do you know what a justification is? Did the admins say "well, you see, we removed this content because it uncovered imperialist lies"?
Probably nothing, same with the "rule breaking content" they could never seem to directly point out in the old CTH sub. They don't give a shit.
Eh. We weren't really shy about breaking rules in CTH lol (which was cool). They had an excuse to ban us.