The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story [2] on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden [3].
Similarly, the moderators at the even bigger r/worldnews reddit (over 5 million readers) repeatedly deleted the story, so that each new post had to start over at zero.
For example, here are a number of posts deleted from r/news (click any image for much larger/clearer version):
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[6]Related posts from other sites – like 21stCenturyWire – were deleted as well:
[7]And here are a number of the posts deleted by the moderators of r/worldnews:
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Write-ups of the same story from other sites – like Zero Hedge – were also deleted:
[10]Two Redditors provide further information on the censorship of this story:
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This isn’t the first time Reddit moderators have been caught censoring:
Source links: Here [15], here [16], here [17], here [18], here [19] and here [20].