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DHS allows surveillance based on sexual orientation. Reddit's privacy moderators ban any mention of it (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 days ago by LWD@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60365167

Case 1

Original post

Moderator carrotcypher says "removed for paywall." When asked about which rule this breaks, receives no response. The post is then locked.

Case 2

Original post

Same as the first, except this time there is no paywall - the link is to a freely accessible advocate.com page.

It is censored with no explanation.

Case 3

Original post

Same as Case 2, moderators censor the post and leave no explanation.

Case 4

Original post

This one is finally given a removal reason: a rule that does not exist in the sidebar, and seems to have nothing to do with the post ("Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product.")

But in a censored comment, the OP of the post says they received a different removal reason:

Holy shit I'm banned for 30 days for "conspiracy spreading". This sub is cooked

This time, other people notice the censorship and the nonsensical nature of the official removal reason.

Since this removal, there has been no further post of this news in r/privacy. Sources tell me the moderators refuse to explain their decision.

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[-] antihumanitarian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Out of curiosity, found 3 versions of the policy manual edits. As of Jan 19, it prohibited operations based on gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Sometime around February it removed those terms, adding "sex." Around March, and current as of 2025-04-06, it readded sexual orientation, presumably after this hitting the news, making the allowance of basing operations on gender identity more pointed.

Sources, page 79: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119072246/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Office%20of%20Intelligence%20and%20Analysis%20Policy%20Manual.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250222000624/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/Office%20of%20Intelligence%20and%20Analysis%20Policy%20Manual-508.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250323044321/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/25_0313_ia_office-of-intelligence-and-analysis_policy-manual.pdf

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Here are the sources for the DHS allowing surveillance of minorities:

Carrotcypher is one of the moderators of the FOSStodon server... To keep this more related to privacy and not bad moderation, I've added more details here.

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

From my (not extremely long) experience in that sub I can say that user is an active and helpful contributor with a good reputation. But Reddit is a corporate sewer so... EDIT: I am referring to lo_______ol

[-] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

Indeed. I have seen lo______ol around for a while now. We need to name and shame Reddit mods. And move more people to Lemmy. Unfortunately, the Reddit boycott didn't go well because normies have a sick compulsion to pardon any and all acts by corporate. Normies are the biggest digital masochists sans exception

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

Fucking normies. I don't want them over here. You can call spez a cunt until you're blue in the face (and you wouldn't be wrong) but it's the normies who spent thousands of man hours turning the place to shit.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Some mods are actually in cahoots with admins, and some admins could be mods themselves

[-] don@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

Had an account on it for 12 years, and while I miss the old days, Iโ€™m as glad I wiped my account there as I am I did the same with xhitter. ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿ˜ค๐Ÿ–•^(yeah I got two right hands u jelly?)^

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

ITS FUCKING REDDIT

Why are you even trying at this point; stop wasting your time on that shithole and move on.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago

In part, because one of the fucking Reddit moderators is now also a FOSStodon moderator, and I think FOSStodon admins might appreciate seeing a pattern of bad behavior

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago

Not a bad idea. I'll try to crosspost that news a few times later during the weekend to help build the bad behaviour portfolio.

[-] nimble 7 points 3 days ago

Of all subreddits i ever visited, that one was THE WORST. There are certain words like graphene that will get your comment auto removed and maybe even banned. Rather than allow privacy minded people to discuss things, the mod(s) enforce their own flavor of privacy on everyone and will not let anything be posted that goes against what they deem acceptable

[-] drosophila 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Do you know what they have against Graphene?

[-] MangoPenguin 1 points 3 days ago

Some whiny BS as I remember, the mods were just being typical reddit mods.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

One man's PTB is another man's opportunity. Feel free to link them to lemmy/this community lol

edit: feel free to post these articles here, they're relevant

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