I realize the irony or futility in attempting to submit a post such as this. If it is censored then my course of action is clear: I will no longer be using this site.
In recent weeks moderators have removed comments which discuss censorship on Voat.
Every single popular subversive which I checked has clear examples where users are saying Voat is censoring content, and those comments are being censored. It's of trivial difficulty to find examples by looking at removed comments.
It's good that we can check removed comments to see whether this is happening. Well, it's happening.
Note: I do not agree or disagree with what's said. I support them saying it. Censoring people who want to discuss censorship on this site is imo quite tragic.
/v/videos
0x00 0 points (+0|-0) 10 days ago Removed by Violentlight at: 11/17/2015 9:01:44 PM.
@mathgrunt, mod of /v/science has started removing posts which criticise the boards moderation policy.
https://voat.co/v/science/modlog/deletedcomments
Take notice and help keep voat free. Remember why we left Reddit.
/v/wtf
SJWs_ARE_ANTI_LOGIC [S] -4 points (+1|-5) 1 month ago Removed by skymod at: 10/4/2015 1:50:33 AM.
Mod censorship.
Deleting comments from my own submission.
http://m.imgur.com/nqYEpGl
/v/news
abolotionsooo -8 points (+2|-10) 5 months ago Removed by AmyAcker at: 11/11/2015 3:07:01 AM.
Censorship = COWARDICE
/v/introductions
deleted -1 points (+0|-1) 4 months ago Removed by AmyAcker at: 7/15/2015 8:31:21 PM.
Voat's new censorship
Downvoating is what reddit uses to silence dissenting views.
People don't typically upvoat, even if they like something. They will just look at it.
But when people get butthurt or see things they don't like they DO DOWNVOAT. You're assuming that people use both buttons the same way.
Voating is a censorship tool because it doesn't depend on rational argumentation. It only depends on CONSENSUS. That's why SRS use downvoat brigades because they know it's only purpose is to censor content they don't want seen by others.
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I found all of these after about 3 minutes of looking.
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[–] Typo 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
You posted:
If you looked at the image you would see that it has a link to mh101. That is spam.
[–] Possible [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What about the other comment which says nothing about this link. The bottom.
Whether something can be defined as spam merely by the presence or absence of a link is certainly an open debate, and one I would welcome. I would find grounds to disagree since the content appears to be clearly about censorship. I see now that the link is there. I had no idea what MH101 was. I thought it was a downed airplane or something.
[–] Typo ago
That isn't a removal that took place in this sub. You'll have to ask that subs moderators about it.
I don't think you understand. Their domain was banned by Atko because they spammed it. This means that they could no longer type it into the comments. To get around the banned link, they stopped posting it and put it in pictures. They made hundreds of accounts and thousands of posts. All were crafted to advertise their site/business.