In the subreddits that have anything to do with politics and/or lambasting right-wingers, any comment or post with even the mildest language criticizing a certain controversial personality now gets a fucking instaban. They don’t care how you defend yourself, a spade is a spade to them.

Otherwise some mods do tend to be on a powertrip.

Reddit wants to provide a service that people can use for free,

lol. Yeah, free but with conditions, as at the end of the day, it’s a privately-owned space and they’ll kick anyone out for using “violent language”.

You can’t – only way is to avoid all politically-charged subreddits. They’ll ban anyone using even remotely violent words to describe US current events, especially in large subs where US politics and news are discussed. You can’t even create a new account and use it immediately after a ban.

It’s really a chilling effect over there. I betcha they’re now using something new to supplant human moderators, and reactionaries are prowling the subs to flag anyone desecrating their idols.