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Our belief, as Republicans began writing their “one big, beautiful bill,” was that the mods would whine, gripe, and draw red lines about spending cuts they’d never go along with—and ultimately lose the intraparty battle to spending hawks in the House Freedom Caucus and go along with whatever they wanted.

“This change not only puts pressure on users to correct their behavior—it makes users afraid to engage with voting. It puts pressure on mods to remove content before anyone sees it so that the user base isn’t punished.”

The mods said they had one instance when a user’s comment that simply read “agreed” was removed by Reddit.

They claimed, sharing screenshots with me, that the site is removing posts and comments and not putting them in the queue for mods to see, forcing them to manually snuff out instances of unfair retaliation.

“We know all of us are at risk of being banned or having the sub taken away at any time. We would rather that outcome than to censor anti-genocide posts or censor anti-Elon or anti-DOGE posts,” the r/SecularTalk mods wrote to me.