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Reddit has always been this way. You're only just now taking notice. It seems to be accelerating in severity though.
I've had dozens if not hundreds of accounts over the past 15+ years. Around 2016 is when things severely accelerated. All my accounts gradually got whittled away. I have none left as of several years ago. Political replies that hurt conservatives feelings will inevitably land an account ban for trumped up reasons (no pun intended). At the very least enough subreddit mods will (shadow)ban you until it becomes a useless account. Most people don't check or notice if their accounts have been ghosted.
The founders of reddit are "free speech absolutists". Translation: right wing bad actors. Their whole world view is one where they aren't overtly conservative. oh no of course not. They're open minded "centrists". You're allowed to say what you want but if they don't like it they'll surreptitiously silence you. This is their whole game. Don't ask me why they're this way though. Sociopathy maybe?
Keep in mind. spez is the one who said we must have "valuable discussion" with r/the_donald even though it was the biggest hive of trolls the internet has ever seen. At this point does anyone even know about all this anymore? It's as if that whole period of reddit got memoryholed.
Anyways the simple reason to you question is they are, without hyperbole, fascists.
That's it it's that simple. I don't know why people aren't getting it... Haven't been getting it. That's what I want to know. How has nobody been seeing all this?
Huffman and Musk are the same kind of person. Only spez has been at it and under the radar for far longer. He didn't suddenly pivot. He didn't fall under pressure from Musk. There's no doubt in my mind he's more than gladly doing this. Though I bet he thinks Musk is too obvious about it. spez is far more discrete.