What luck, the search engines had some of the purged dice.com discussion threads in their caches. The posts have been mirrored here:
Vote with your feet if you object to recent censorship.
Banning and Censorship
This second thread is not actually what I thought it was, but seeing as it was censored too, it seemed worth mirroring. Note that this post deliberately avoids bringing up the initial censored topic in order to avoid being censored itself (because discussing censorship is not officially against the rules). However the moderators view this as dissent and delete it immediately, often followed by threats and account banning.
Some side notes:
Dice.com moderation staff appears to be putting more resources into censoring posts/threads quickly. Unless a member's own posts have been censored, they are less likely to observe the uncensored posts of others and be aware of the censorship. Ironically enough, this could result in fewer censorship complaints for Dice to censor.
Another effect of purging dissenting threads quickly is that the posts disappear before search engines are able to crawl them. So it may become more difficult to use search engines to reveal censorship.
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