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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit
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Your pictures are welcome here, Paul!
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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Fux you spez.
TIL Sir Paul McCartney is on Reddit.
Was on Reddit
It's funny how a lot of the complaints I'm reading here are about how Reddit is unfriendly toward left-leaning people but all the right wing people complain about how Reddit is a cesspool of liberal propaganda.
It just goes to show that the platform plays both sides just to promote hate and anger.
I visited after I got banned and the default posts that show up without logging in (therefore uncurated) were all so irritating that I had to assume they were all ragebait.
I got banned for posting that Trump is a piece of shit. KTHXBAI!
Reddit is a cesspool of liberal
Liberals are not left wing
Ok, whatever. The point was that they have fun seeing us bicker over shit for their profit.
But the right doesn't know that.
From my perspective "liberal" is still right-wing.
Lmao I feel the same. Literally feels like rage bait. Like these people are so freaking ignorant. It doesn’t help a lot of Reddit posts are just bots recirculating old content.
Kind of tangential to the topic but reddit has been appropriating user names for celebrities and companies. The first known instance (as far as I know) was u/borat. I was surprised thiskind of thing wasn't a bigger deal.
I wouldn't be surprised if u/paulmccartney is such a case. A basic name that's only a 5 year old account. No way nobody grabbed that before.
But how would a fake Paul get access to the real Paul's private footage of his own, not-filmed-by-audience show?
That's exactly how they getcha. It's the perfect con, you see!
Start by killing the real Paul in a motorcycle accident.
My three notable bans:
- Banned from politics for quoting the Constitution on treason punishment
- Banned from gym for arguing with a "pro" claiming there are no stupid exercises and bad form doesn't exist.
- Banned from child free for saying not every one that is child free hates children with the passion of a burning sun and wants them all to die.
Edit: I forgot to mention when time number 2 happened. I asked the mod "Why was I banned?" Then my entire account got a 3 month suspension for "Mod abuse" by the admins.
What do you mean bad form doesn't exist? Serious question.
Just got my first ever warning the other day.
Was a comment about voting on using gallows or guillotines to solve some problems in the US.
Wasn't even advocating it, just offering it as a suggestion to those living there.
A modest proposal if I ever heard one!
When Epstein was sent to prison and was in protective custody, I suggested that he shouldn't have special treatment and belonged in genpop.
Banned for advocating violence against someone.
May that mod have a spasm and faceplant hard on a gravel road, then be forced to drink cold hot-dog water while listening to Baby Shark at high volume on an endless loop. And may all their teeth fall out but one, and in that, may they have a toothache.
It's interesting you mention the Baby Shark thing. In Oklahoma there were some prison guards who forced multiple people at various times to stand handcuffed in a stress position for hours listening to Baby Shark for the purpose of torturing them. There was also other forms of physical abuse that happened.
The guards were arrested but were given 2 years of probation. But you as an average citizen get caught up in some war on drugs bullshit where you didn't even victimize anyone and your unlikely to get the same treatment in many cases, especially in some harsher states.
Former Oklahoma jail officers sued over 'Baby Shark' torture tactic are placed on probation
Christian Charles Miles and Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. pleaded no contest to misdemeanor cruelty to a prisoner
A federal civil rights lawsuit four inmates filed in 2021 accused Miles and Butler of using excessive force and discipline tactics described as "torture events."
Joseph Mitchell, said he was pulled from his cell in November 2019 and placed in a room where he was forced into a "standing stress position" for three to four hours while he was handcuffed behind his back, according to the lawsuit. Officers then played "Baby Shark" on repeat so loud "that it was reverberating down the hallways," it said.
Ja’Lee Foreman Jr., another inmate, said in the suit that he was not forced to listen to the song but was placed in a stress position and then kneed in the back and slammed into a wall by Miles. Foreman alleged that Miles spat on him as Butler laughed.
In addition to probation, Miles and Butler must complete 40 hours of community service, and they were fined $200 and ordered to pay $300 in victims’ compensation. They are also no longer allowed to work in law enforcement, the court records state.
Butler's attorney, Lance Phillips, said his client is "happy this matter is behind him." If Butler remains out of trouble while on probation, he will not have a misdemeanor conviction on his record, Phillips said Wednesday.
I got banned for suggesting someone should drill a hole in the Charlie kirk statue
That's somehow badly proportioned. Didn't he have a smaller face on that big head?
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I just want to say that I know people who have known Paul for many years, and every single one of them have nothing but good things to say about him. He knows people want to catch him doing jerk behavior, so he bends over backwards to be polite and respectful to EVERYBODY. He's a Righteous Dude.
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Looks like the account is reinstated. Good to know that's how to reach human support there: be Literally Paul McCartney.
The posts are gone, though. I hope this was the decision of McCartney or his team. Reddit doesn't deserve him.
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Fuck Reddit Mods. Well not literally, of course.
I say fuck Reddit and Lemmy too for not providing the tools to audit modderators. Like we need a removed post/comment/account graveyard where anyone can review and inspect what is being removed with the reasons as to why so that we can have assurance mods are not abusing. Like it is such a simple problem to solve , yet no one wants to implement and thus, here we are.
Aren't you just describing a modlog? The only annoying feature is that mod name is obscured so you have to jump a couple hoops to find who did what and whether they still are mods.
Oh yeah. That is sort of what I was envisioning. It is not really feature complete, but a step in the right direction. Thanks for that link. At least Lemmy is trying versus Reddit that lets it fester.
It used to have the mod names when I first got here. I don't know why they changed it.
Oh hey, yeah, been this way for at least 4 month since... you've permabanned me off people twitter 😂 Mind lifting that?
So, in conclusion, Reddit banned McCartney for posting images from his own concert in his own subreddit? Wild...
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It's always interesting to see people commenting who don't understand how reddit works. Which is fair - you can have an opinion. But knowing how it works makes a difference in how seriously I can take your opinion.
Mods on reddit cannot do a sitewide ban. They can ban you from one or more subreddits they moderate.
Admins do sitewide bans, which is what's happened here, since you can see the profile has been banned.
And these days, with reddit's shitty AI moderation, it probably means a ban done by AI.
Because this is not a normal person, someone will probably take a look at it and overturn it.
If you're a regular joe, however, them taking a look at it even if you appeal is pretty damned rare. And as some have mentioned - things that trigger AI as a "threat of violence" that a normal human would easily see are not - doesn't matter, AI bans. You get a warning, 24-hour, 3-day, 10-day, 30-day, then permanent. Unless there's something that accellerates that.
As much as many people manage to survive without saying things AI picks up on, it's damn easy to get unjustly banned, and it's only gotten worse and worse over time.
Anyone in this thread talking about bans from mods is technically offtopic, except that reddit itself is also the topic, so that's fine, but you should understand that a mod banning you is not similar to what happened here. :P
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Man. Reddit has really just become a joke.
It's so bad it almost seems intentional.
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