It all started on Tuesday, when a moderator for r/JoeRogan wrote that “all political posts are now banned on r/JoeRogan.”
“Today we are making the decision to ban all political posts indefinitely,” the explanation read. “After careful consideration, internal discussion and tons of external feedback we have collectively decided that r/joerogan is not the place for politics anymore.”
That post was not received well. One contributor wrote, “Every reddit mod is a hall monitor dork, change my mind. Youre banning the topic he talks about the most. You guys are hypocrites and anti free speech. If you cant mod effectively then go paint your warhammer figurines and let someone else do it.”
This is a guy who’s spent the majority of his “comedian” career shitting on others for censoring hate speech he likes and priming his audience to view all criticism of him as petty cancel culture.
As per usual, the “freedom of speech absolutist” crowd is the most authoritarian on crucial critical speech.