Bassnectar Getting Critical Reddit Posts Removed By Falsely Claiming Content Policy Violations
Recently, Bassnectar announced a show in San Jose that a lot of people are obviously upset about on account of his history of allegations regarding sexual misconduct and human trafficking. His team is deleting negative comments off of his instagram post and facebook post about it as one might expect.
However, someone made a post drawing attention to this on r/aves, asking people to email public leaders to pressure them to call the show off. His team is controlling all of the media around this to remove critical comments on social media, and now they're deleting reddit posts about this as well for apparently "violating the content policy":
You can see the original post here: https://ihsoyct.github.io/?backend=artic_shift&mode=submissions&subreddit=r%2Faves&after=2026-06-19T10%3A53&limit=100&sort=desc&query=Bassnectar+Return
And the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/aves/comments/1ubb4b2/removed_by_reddit/
I feel comfortable linking to the original post because I don't think this actually violates reddits content policy at all:
Going through the relevant rules:
Rule 3 (privacy) refers to personal or confidential information. Every contact listed is a public-facing professional or government email, that's not private information.
Rule 1 targets harassment of people on Reddit and attacks on vulnerable groups. Emailing a city government to object to a booking decision is civic advocacy, not harassment.
So i'm going to echo this person's call to action.
>I am posting to ask that people email these people to protest this event (credit to Nikki S on FB):
>Mayor Matt mayor@sanjoseca.gov
>San Jose Downtown Association (the organization that runs Music in the Park sjda@sjdowntown.com
>Music in the Park info@mitpsj.com
>Cultural Affairs culturalaffairs@sanjoseca.gov
>Jen Baker director of cultural affairs jen.baker@sanjoseca.gov
>Michael Lomio Downtown Manager michael.lomio@sanjoseca.gov
I think it needs to be brought to people's attention because shutting down these conversations is not how we keep our scenes safe. I'm guessing they're going to try and take this down too but it's worth a shot of having the conversation.