I thought, without context, that the punchline of the comic was just pointing out the internet is a strange place and federal agents fighting hate crimes must do increasingly weird stuff to do their job.

Unfortunately the creator of this comic is a holocaust denier. One of his comic references RNG to come up with holocaust death tolls. I think this comic was just made to make fun of people fighting hate crimes, or to imply non-heteronormative people are neo-Nazis.

People thought they had a mutually beneficial relationship with reddit (and they did): they provided content and moderation, reddit provided a platform, administration, etc.

Reddit has never been perfect but pretending it was as bad as Zuck’s creations is being dishonest. Sure, no corporation has your needs as their top priority. However, I remember a time when reddit used to do things like talk about warrant canaries and other privacy minded things. Facebook has always been a bit… questionable. And then it got worse.