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Despite the overwhelming liberal bias on Reddit, there are a small number of subreddits a with conservative populations; such as r/Conservative and r/Republican.

Despite the overwhelming liberal bias on Reddit, there are a small number of subreddits a with conservative populations; such as r/Conservative and r/Republican.

However, many conservative subreddits have been [[censorship|censored]] by Reddit. r/pizzagate, was banned<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzagate-we-dont-want-witchhunts-our-site</ref> as well as r/The_Donald being unfairly banned for being "anti-police" after a [[Media_Matters_for_America|Media Matters]] hit piece was released. Recently, in 2020, r/Wuhan_Flu was quarantined, within 3 days of its creation.<ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddit-full-calls-violence-support-oregon-republicans</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/</ref><ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/</ref><ref>http://archive.is/u61WC</ref>

However, many conservative subreddits have been [[censorship|censored]] by Reddit. r/pizzagate, was banned<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzagate-we-dont-want-witchhunts-our-site</ref> as well as r/The_Donald being unfairly banned for being "anti-police" after a [[Media_Matters_for_America|Media Matters]] hit piece was released. Recently, in 2020, r/Wuhan_Flu was quarantined, within 3 days of its creation.<ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddit-full-calls-violence-support-oregon-republicans. Oddly enough subreddits like R/Communism, R/Beholdthemasterrace and R/Fragilewhiteredditor, R/Fuckthealtright have not been banned and have thousands of followers dispite being hypocritical of reddits "anti harrassment policy." </ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/</ref><ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/</ref><ref>http://archive.is/u61WC</ref>

On August 23 2021 a Reddit user made a post on the [[Marxism|Marxist]] subreddit r/vaxxhappened calling for Reddit to "take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the</ref> What this Redditor meant by "take action" is for Reddit to censor views that opppose [[Vaccine_mandate|vaccine mandates]] and [[Covid_lockdown|totalitarian lockdowns]]. This post was reposted to hundreds of other subreddits resulting in Reddit making the decision on September 3 2021, influenced by Chinese oligarchs, to quarantine and ban dozens of [[freedom|pro-free speech]] subreddits such as r/NoNewNormal.<ref>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-active-covid-misinformation-subreddit-nonewnormal/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/04/censor-happy-reddit-bans-links-to-russian-state-media/</ref>

On August 23 2021 a Reddit user made a post on the [[Marxism|Marxist]] subreddit r/vaxxhappened calling for Reddit to "take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the</ref> What this Redditor meant by "take action" is for Reddit to censor views that opppose [[Vaccine_mandate|vaccine mandates]] and [[Covid_lockdown|totalitarian lockdowns]]. This post was reposted to hundreds of other subreddits resulting in Reddit making the decision on September 3 2021, influenced by Chinese oligarchs, to quarantine and ban dozens of [[freedom|pro-free speech]] subreddits such as r/NoNewNormal.<ref>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-active-covid-misinformation-subreddit-nonewnormal/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/04/censor-happy-reddit-bans-links-to-russian-state-media/</ref>