To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. Ever since the moderator shuffle that accompanied that clusterfuck of a domain blacklist from late last year, the moderation quality of this sub has taken a very visible and called-out nosedive. Popular stories suddenly vanish off the front page, entire trees of comments are obliterated, unknown, extreme and much-maligned users have been brought on board the mod team at the expense of more established/popular/moderate ones, and in general it's gotten to the point where you can't even talk about the politics of /politics on /politics: Police brutality and militarization as enabled by the laws passed by our politicians?