Censored and banned from Politics on Imzy for defending Trump supporters against violence

Hey Imzy, political censorship and harassment by your “leaders” is not okay.

Imzy is a new community platform that I’ve been beta testing since May 2016, which just opened their doors publicly towards the end of last year. It was created by former Reddit employees, and had some serious potential to be a next generation community platform. I had a lot of hope that they would build a more fair platform for creators. Unfortunately, much like Reddit they gave community leaders too much power, oddly shut down the creation of new communities, and have essentially built yet another platform of censorship with no accountability.

Several months ago I began submitting my Medium articles to Imzy, and the response was mostly positive or neutral. Last week I submitted the story I wrote about the Berkeley riots, and one of the leaders of the community, does_not_compute, targeted me personally and questioned my logic completely off-topic, which is a violation of the communities rules: “Be civil. Stay on topic. It’s OK to disagree but bon’t make it personal. Please refrain from flaming or name-calling. Keep content related to political discussion.”

In other words, the leader of this community made it a point to leave Imzy and go through my Medium account, find articles they disagreed with that had nothing to do with anything I had submitted to Imzy, and then posted and quoted these unrelated articles completely off-topic in an attempt to discredit and harass me. In my opinion this is against Imzy’s community policy concerning harassment and malicious speech.

I attempted to reason with does_not_compute and explain that half the country are not literal Nazis. The conversation escalated from there, and this supposed community leader then argued on behalf of those conducting violence against anyone they determine to be a Nazi; which includes any Trump supporter who considers themselves to be a “deplorable” (which is likely millions of normal Americans who are not by any means a member of the Nazi party). Unfortunately, it appears some of this leaders comments may have been removed, but the ones that remain still clearly indicate they believe Trump supporters are Nazis.

This leader is also a member of Imzyians Against Trump, which is lead by another leader of /Politics, mrjazzy. Meaning at least two of the four leaders on /Politics are both anti-Trump. Both /Politics and this anti-Trump community are dominated by posts from mrjazzy. Why Imzy even allows an anti-Trump community is beyond me, as it once again seems to be against their community policy which clearly states:

“Don’t encourage violence or hatred on the basis of things like race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics. We encourage you to dismantle negative speech through discussion rather than censorship.” -Imzy Community Policy

I really do not think it is appropriate for the leader of a community with over 7,988 people on the topic of “Politics” as a whole condoning violence against Trump supporters, and considers them to be actual members of the Nazi party.

What this ultimately comes down to is at least two of the four leaders of /Politics on Imzy are openly anti-Trump, and are purposely censoring /Politics to fit their anti-Trump narrative and manipulate over 7,988 people.