Erroring out is just being broken, but accepting and then deleting comments is a filter that is shadow banning your comment (so that you can’t tell it’s been removed and try to re-post it by circumventing the filter).

Definitely, though some subs have more of these ‘filters’ in place than others. Worldnews was particularly egregious; innocuous links would have a 50/50 chance of getting a comment shadowbanned, leading to a nosedrive in the quality of discourse as no one was willing to go through that gauntlet to provide sources (or just didn’t know their posts were getting censored).

Of course, any mention of ‘shadowban’ or related words is also an instant shadowban. SOP pretty quickly became to try to open your comment in an incog window to see if it had been turned invisible to everyone but you or not.

Similar thing happens with youtube comments, and probably on a plethora of other platforms as well. Between that and bots and other trickery, more and more of the conversations we see on the internet are manipulated and no longer truly real.

I’m not actually clear on what part of my comment you are having an issue with.

And Gazans voted them in hoping the platform of better internal security, less corruption, and less extremism that Hamas was running on would give them a better life. Exit polls corroborate this, with most voters saying they wanted peace with Israel and wanted Hamas to moderate its stance against Israel.

It’s almost a year now, isn’t it time for Palestinians to start admitting that Hamas is bad for them?

Prior to the war, the majority of Gazans did not support Hamas. Because they are extremists who are bad at governing and bad at being nice and sane neighbours.

This did not help them much once the war started. Now Hamas has widespread support, because they are extremists who are good at fighting off a foreign invader that is in the process of blowing them and their families up.

All we see is support for Hamas or excuses for their actions. Or just looking the other way. Can anyone point to any real protest against Hamas by Palestinians? I can understand people living in Gaza and the West Bank may be too afraid to speak out against Hamas, but people who have left the country? Where are the Palestinian voices denouncing Hamas?

They exist, but they are not likely to be particularly vocal about it. Even if a Palestinian does not like Hamas and their actions, from their perspective, Hamas is still on the side of the Palestinians, fighting against an even worse aggressor - one that is in the midst of a geocidal campaign against their people. It’s like expecting an Israeli citizen to stand up and condemn the IDF and Israeli apartheid while the Oct 7 attacks were ongoing. There are plenty in Israel who do so. But in the middle of a massacre is not a likely timing for it.