DHS allows surveillance based on sexual orientation. Reddit's privacy moderators ban any mention of it

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60365167

Case 1

Original post

Moderator carrotcypher says "removed for paywall." When asked about which rule this breaks, receives no response. The post is then locked.

Case 2

Original post

Same as the first, except this time there is no paywall - the link is to a freely accessible advocate.com page.

It is censored with no explanation.

Case 3

Original post

Same as Case 2, moderators censor the post and leave no explanation.

Case 4

Original post

This one is finally given a removal reason: a rule that does not exist in the sidebar, and seems to have nothing to do with the post ("Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product.")

But in a censored comment, the OP of the post says they received a different removal reason:

This time, other people notice the censorship and the nonsensical nature of the official removal reason.

Since this removal, there has been no further post of this news in r/privacy. Sources tell me the moderators refuse to explain their decision.

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LWD@lemm.ee · 36 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Direct link to the field manual per one redditor

Leads to a dead link.

LWD@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

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kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

From my (not extremely long) experience in that sub I can say that user is an active and helpful contributor with a good reputation. But Reddit is a corporate sewer so... EDIT: I am referring to lo_______ol

marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Indeed. I have seen lo______ol around for a while now. We need to name and shame Reddit mods. And move more people to Lemmy. Unfortunately, the Reddit boycott didn't go well because normies have a sick compulsion to pardon any and all acts by corporate. Normies are the biggest digital masochists sans exception

Spendrill@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

Fucking normies. I don't want them over here. You can call spez a cunt until you're blue in the face (and you wouldn't be wrong) but it's the normies who spent thousands of man hours turning the place to shit.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Some mods are actually in cahoots with admins, and some admins could be mods themselves

don@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y

Had an account on it for 12 years, and while I miss the old days, I’m as glad I wiped my account there as I am I did the same with xhitter. šŸ–•šŸ˜¤šŸ–•^(yeah I got two right hands u jelly?)^

fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

ITS FUCKING REDDIT

Why are you even trying at this point; stop wasting your time on that shithole and move on.

LWD@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y

Not a bad idea. I'll try to crosspost that news a few times later during the weekend to help build the bad behaviour portfolio.

nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Do you know what they have against Graphene?

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Basically the head dev if graphene was a dick, but tbh so is Torvalds and I'm not about to stop using linux. That dev stepped down as head anyway iirc, still works on the project (which is good, cause he's good) but just isn't the face anymore (which is good, cause he is a dick lmao.)

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Some whiny BS as I remember, the mods were just being typical reddit mods.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 4 pts · 1y
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antihumanitarian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Out of curiosity, found 3 versions of the policy manual edits. As of Jan 19, it prohibited operations based on gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Sometime around February it removed those terms, adding "sex." Around March, and current as of 2025-04-06, it readded sexual orientation, presumably after this hitting the news, making the allowance of basing operations on gender identity more pointed.

Sources, page 79: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119072246/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Office%20of%20Intelligence%20and%20Analysis%20Policy%20Manual.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250222000624/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/Office%20of%20Intelligence%20and%20Analysis%20Policy%20Manual-508.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20250323044321/https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/25_0313_ia_office-of-intelligence-and-analysis_policy-manual.pdf