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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] grepe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

i got first permabanned by a mod from r/news for commenting "when a terrorist hides in a school full of children it is not ok to blow up the school with the children still in it" under an article about IDF doing just that while hunting for some hamas fighters (no warning, no previous infractions, straight permaban, reason: "you broke the community rules" - no further explanation). it hurt a bit cause i did not participate in any political discussions normally. but shortly after that there was a picture of WW2 nazi flag on someone's front yard in ohio and people started suggesting that someone should bring a veteran to this person to explain them the error of their ways. i didn't resist and responded that this person knows exactly what they are doing and they do it cause there are no consequences to it. i also wrote that somebody should "tar and feather them and chase them around" - after which my account got restricted cause "we are trying to create a community where everyone can feel safe and therefore we cannot tolerate calls for violence against others".