The video doesn’t need to be watched: it may as well be a podcast. Or do you mean you can’t listen to the video?

How’s the weather in Valparaiso? 😂

If not all of Reddit, r/neoliberal certainly is.

• https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2019/10/bpr-interviews-the-neoliberal-project/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Policy_Institute#Center_for_New_Liberalism

Then there’s that r/IAmA incident:

• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
• I am Rushan Abbas - Uyghur Activist and survivor of Chinese oppression. My sister and my friends are currently trapped in western China’s concentration camps. Ask me anything!

And then there’s Reddit’s Director of Policy:

• Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
• https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/jessica-ashooh/

Only admins can do site bans. What you’re seeing is a hacky/temporary feature of the upcoming Lemmy v19.4, of which lemmy.ml is running the pre-release: when an admin bans someone from the site (temp or otherwise), it also automatically bans them from any community they have ever participated in. Lemmy.ml has always been the “beta” instance for new releases.