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I got a ban from a group because there was a lot of horse posting. I basically commented that "hey there's a lot of evidence that horse riding causes permanent injuries", and "who here can actually afford this posh hobby". The admins were rich as fuck. Somehow rich people tend to have more time to do this shit. Anyhow, they said that I was being personally insulting because "posh hobby".

blocky-wat

I was also kicked from a reddit-logo sub for reporting obvious Islamophobia. Fuck that place.

I got a two week ban from Facebook for anti-white racism. And I'm officially the whitest person on Hexbear.

Maybe I'm a lib or too damn civil, but I haven't yet been kicked from a site yet deeper-sadness

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[–] Pili@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (21 children)

I said on twitter that we should legalise hunting hunters to regulate their population.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (14 children)

cw: transphobia

The only platform I've ever been banned on is Amazon, unless IRC channels from a million years ago count. I'm not banned from buying stuff but I am banned from leaving reviews.

Basically there's a ton of merchandise on Amazon that is explicitly transphobic. Bumper stickers or shirts saying something transphobic I won't repeat, or books about how being trans is an illness. Heinous horrible things like that. Well over about a week I just snapped and reported a bunch of sellers, left negative reviews, tried contacting the sellers to unlist their garbage transphobic items.

At first the Amazon reps were cordial, since I would reference a clause they used to have about how items couldn't promote hate speech, violence, etc. After the fifth time or so they stopped immediately responding, then I wasn't able to make reviews anymore with the official reasons being spam and that I kept reviewing things I wasn't buying.

Yeah except I know what's actually going on. Amazon is perfectly willing to sell hate speech

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[–] RotundLadSloopUnion@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Got preemptively banned from /r/communism101 without ever posting there because I posted in a Bernie sub back in 2020 exactly 1 time

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a confession!

You know where to go gulag

We got em comrades!

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Was it WayOfTheBern? I think there may have been some sus activity in that sub at some point.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago
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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I got banned from r/FULLCOMMUNISM years ago by a power tripping mod because I joked that I was a gamer.

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Well deserved tbh

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

I don't use social media gigachad

[–] crime@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Banned from r/ADHD for asking one of the mods if they're a landlord when they told me off for quoting Mao (without attribution, mind you)

Banned from r/antiwork for "tankies = bad" after pointing out that UBI in the global north just shifts the extra work to the global south rather than eliminating work

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I staged a hostile takeover of the Geometry Dash forums when I was 11 that lasted for about half a week until I was usurped by the (until-then-inactive) senior admin

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

during the George Floyd protests, once a day I would link to some new clip of cops brutalizing unarmed/vulnerable people. there were so many to choose from and I figured 1 new one each day would have a higher impact than flooding the feed.

after a few weeks, FB administratively "check pointed" my account. my account was a goofy fake name and none of my shit was real. they wanted me to submit my real name and a picture of my driver license and address.

I responded that they could fuck themselves in the mouth with a dog turd, and that was the end of that.

my first/only :stormfront: ban was for cooler reasons, but even articulating a few broad strokes would open me up to retaliation of some kind, I'm sure. I am more careful these days, so just imagine something cool that would make you smile and that's what it was.

[–] roux@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I got a temp ban on FB years ago for posting a crude drawing of a man with his head up his butt as a retort to an argument against my chud brother.

I got a temp ban on Twitter around that same time because some famous talking face called Greta Thurnberg a Nazi because she had her hair braided. I mentioned something about how real fascists actually just dehumanize and demonize their "enemy" like this person was doing. Basically I got the ban for calling a person a Fascist who was calling an eco-socialist a fascist.

I got banned briefly from /r/latestagecapitalism for saying DSA was a leftist org in a comment thread about what leftist parties there are in the States. I was simply listing a bunch I know across the spectrum of leftist schools of thought. The mod said I was banned because "we are a Marxist-Leninist subreddit and DSA is full of libs" or some shit, and like, I agree but a lot, and I mean A LOT of users on that sub are reformists and so is the DSA.

Bonus: I got doxxed on a local Linux forum a long time ago because I said I was pretty evangelical about "the good word" of Linux. Idk what the mod there thought I said but next morning was a wall of text about everything he could find about me online and basically just tearing into me. I banned myself right after that and will not associate with any Linux users in any real capacity in my area ever again. I will make small talk about distros but that's about it.

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been temp banned from various forums over the years, mostly for "inappropriate language."

Like it's okay to spout off racist conspiracy theories about immigrants in Europe. But when I say "Jesus fuck me in the titty fucking shitter Christ" that was too far apparently.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

My first reddit ban was for reporting racist content (sorry, "abusing the report function"), and my second, more permanent one for asking if Israel meant they were going to kill millions of civilians and then leave without solving anything when they said they were going to "do to Hamas what the US did to ISIS". Apparently criticising the US is antisemitic.

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i expect to get banned from c/badposting because my posts are somehow too bad

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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got banned from Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit all for being anti fascist.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I was banned from the TNO sub because i commented "based" on a post about an event talking about a romanov aclaimant getting shot

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got banned from r/piracy for saying it was impossible to be racist against white people.

Banned from r/196 for expressing doubt over Uyghur's being organ harvested.

Got 2 or 3 temp bans from Reddit for saying that when the revolution comes anyone with a K-On pfp gets the wall.

But I'm 99% that was because there was a funny-clown-hammer cultist stalking my account because I would comment in any thread involving him that he had threatened to SA a woman who he once told looked like a loli.

[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Never gotten a single ban because Hexbear is the only place I even bother with when it comes to interacting with other people. Otherwise if I were to use other social media sites, I think I would cach one REALLY quickly as I don’t tend to hold back when calling shitheads out.

[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got banned from a Discord server for just posting "Z" under a "SUPPORT UKRAINE" post by a mod of some fan animation project of a franchise I will not name. This was like in March 2022 I think.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

worst on the list are those with horse usernames

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wished death upon a zionist

Wished death upon an anti-china guy

Reported a post for russophobia

Ban evaded to engage in youtuber drama

All on reddit

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perma from reddit-logo for calling liberals "disgusting Nazis" when they justified voting for Harris to people who were saying they couldn't due to the genocide.

Prior to that I got a permanent sub ban from /r/menslib on a thread of "As a dad, these videos of grieving fathers who lost their children are breaking me, I don't know what to do," for the same thing a few months into the genocide.

Banned from Worldnews back in 2019 for explaining to someone who called the rioters in HK "non-violent" that they were tacitly supporting burning old men nearly to death. I probably used harsher language than that, but I don't remember the details.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Criticising voting is challenging the ruling class ideology.

I'd hope that menslib would do better. That's sad.

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[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been banned from a bunch of places. The funniest one was Twitter, for "violent threats" against TERFs in general. Just got rolled up by a bot and reported, then doubled down when my suspension was over. I was down to get banned so idgaf. My posts were not targeted at anyone in particular and did not constitute anything approaching a believable, realistic or targeted threat. It was just a funny bit. X did not reinstate my account when Musk took over.

I won't mention the others cuz that would quickly narrow down who I am to some people.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I got banned from contra points sub reddit for asking them if voting for biden helped.

I got banned from some rationalist places for talking about how economic planning was the most rational way to organize the economy.

I of course have never been banned here for struggle session posting.

[–] ptc075@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I got perma-banned from reddit for logging in from out of state.

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