Case 1
Moderator carrotcypher says “removed for paywall.” When asked about which rule this breaks, receives no response. The post is then locked.
Case 2
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
Same as Case 2, moderators censor the post and leave no explanation.
Case 4
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:
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.
PTB, they’ve been on this comm before for this exact behavior. They’re not interested in privacy, only propaganda.
I’ve sent the FOSStodon admins proof of this fuckhead’s evil behavior before. If they’re still in power there, it’s only reasonable to assume that FOSStodon is accepting of this behavior.
In fact, if you Google “FOSStodon Elon Musk,” an interesting trend appears. Anything I clicked that was critical of Musk and posted to the instance this year was deleted…
In fact, if you Google “FOSStodon Elon Musk,” an interesting trend appears. Anything I clicked that was critical of Musk and posted to the instance this year was deleted
Holy shit. Can you provide some examples?
Carrotcypher freaks out about any anti-Musk article in any subreddit he doesn’t control, and many he does, but I didn’t think the moderation was happening behind the scenes on FOSSTodon too. Which is especially reprehensible because the creators, admins, and other mods of FOSSTodon all seem pretty resolute in condemning Musk before he went full fascist.
I noticed this stuff was more measured before mid January (almost right around the Trump inauguration) but it’s started expanding pretty rapidly. Maybe I need to put in a little extra legwork and figure out which news sites are being auto-censored based on his personal opinions faster than I had anticipated.
Well, there is a problem with this idea, admittedly. All the missing posts are from one user, @[email protected]
At the same time, however, it doesn’t look like he suddenly became a Musk fan, so…
There’s also no archive of these apart from Google’s previews.
This is the only Elon-critical post from this user that comes up on Google and hasn’t been deleted:
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112838449092743174
EDIT: I contacted AkaSci, and he informed me that he more than likely did delete those posts, as “I tend to delete old posts that are political or news related.” So it seems there’s no evidence his abuses have leaked onto FOSStodon yet.
Carrotcypher is one of the moderators of the FOSStodon server.
https://hub.fosstodon.org/team/
Carrotcypher also moderates over 50 other subreddits, and is often the top active moderator on them. Here are some of those subreddits, from most to less popular:
- r/opensource
- r/OSINT
- r/tails
- r/signal
- r/opsec
- r/KeepOurNetFree
- r/Mastodon
- r/Infosec
- r/europrivacy
- r/netneutrality
- r/snowden
- r/foss
- r/SimpleXChat
I presume the FOSStodon admins, as well as some of the moderators in the subreddits that aren’t fully taken over, are not aware of this activity.
Here are some other assorted notes:
- Here’s the same moderator on r/Mastodon, which they moderate, complaining about people who don’t like Elon Musk.
- Here is the moderator endorsing a law that forces teachers uncloset transgender children.
- Here is the moderator defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil
Well I know which Mastodon server I’m blocking now. I feel like I should bring this to @[email protected]’s attention because I can see this person from the blahaj.zone Sharkey instance (have since blocked carrotcypher and muted fosstodon).
Perhaps you would consider block fosstodon.org as a whole, Ada? Thank you for your consideration.
Malignant power-tripping asshole this guy. And also a Nazi. Who would’ve guessed?
Holy shit, that’s a massive PTB
Typical powertripping reddit mods keeping crucial information hidden. There’s so many moderators on reddit who permanently ban you if you post vegan positive articles.
It looks like [email protected] is your new home.
PTB, fuck Reddit.
This seems awesome. What awesome times we live in.
And as we all know, it’s always immediately obvious what a person’s orientation is so there’s no way this could ever be abused.
