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  • Screenshots can be easily manipulated by Inspect Element. Like for example:

    There’s no way for us to authenticate OP’s claim with 100% certainty unless we had access to Reddit’s backend and could verify the comment history directly.

    Plus, this story was told entirely from OP’s perspective. Can we verify with 100% certainty that that was exactly what was said? Are we for certain that OP didn’t say anything else? How do we know if the full sentence wasn’t “Go back to the muscovite empire and I hope your entire family gets raped”?

    And how do we know Reddit didn’t see a larger pattern of TOS-breaking comments and simply included one excerpt in the ban notice to OP? I know for Reddit moderators, they’re restricted to being able to include only one single rule-infringing comment in a ban notification sent to users, even if multiple messages were problematic. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit admins had the same limitation.

    That’s why I always take “I got banned by Reddit admins” posts on the Fediverse with a grain of salt. There’s too much missing information to judge. OP might be telling the truth, or they might not. I don’t have enough evidence either way, so I’ll reserve judgment and move on.




































  • The social media ban for younger kids in Australia is not a good thing. By requiring anyone who wants to access social platforms to provide government ID, you’re effectively eliminating online anonymity.

    Sure, the justification today might be to “protect the kids”. But you’re slowly building the infrastructure of a surveillance state. All it’ll take is for an authoritarian party to win the next election and your privacy and freedom of expression is over.

    The only way to protect children and protect our privacy is if the age verification software is publicly auditable and uses zero-knowledge proofs for age attestation. The website you’re accessing must never see anything about you aside from “This user is 16+.” And the age verification platform must never be able to keep a log of which websites you’ve accessed.

    But that’s just a compromise. If I had the option to choose, I’d rather there be absolutely no age verification, ever.

    EDIT: Fixed grammar.