This is censorship done by Reddit’s AEO (Anti “Evil” Operations), which are basically the admins moderation monkeys. I can’t state enough how much I hate them. They banned me for the dumbest shit, like saying that a fascist Italy should get kicked out of the EU & NATO (in a respectively relevant submission). This opinion was apparently worth a perma ban for “spreading hate” & denied appeal, in which I explained that both institutions require democratic foundations from their member states. They’re a big reason why I think Reddit went to shit over the past half a decade or so (I had hundrdes of thousands of karma before that with no issues for many years), because they’re either highly incompetent or have an agenda, or both. Meanwhile, they report you back that literal hate speech & calls for violence are “not a violation of their terms of service”.

The best thing about this censorship is that they even censor the comment from the writer itself. Regular removals are just [Removed] for others, while you as the original writer can still see your comment like nothing happened. Now you cannot even see your own comment, you can’t see what type of offending shit you’ve said, which also means you cannot possibly form a plausible defense for it - especially when the ban hammer comes like 3 weeks later and you don’t even remember what you’ve said there.