The Broken Scissors: Supplementary Material — Reddit Evidence

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Authors: Yu, Liang
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Abstract

This supplementary material documents the real-time censorship of the primary publication "The Broken Scissors" on Reddit's r/Physics community. Within 21 hours of posting, the content was removed and the author was banned—providing immediate empirical validation of the institutional parasitism mechanisms described in the theoretical framework. Key observations include: (1) Entropy-based AI detection used to suppress low-entropy (high-logic) content (2) Karma requirements functioning as institutional mass acquisition (3) Cross-subreddit "quarantine zones" as mechanisms to neutralize heterodox ideas (4) Recursive validation: a paper about censorship was censored, confirming its predictions The recursive nature of this validation constitutes strong evidence for the proposed isomorphism between spontaneous symmetry breaking and institutional parasitism.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Misinformation and Its Impacts Academic Publishing and Open Access Academic Freedom and Politics

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
11 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint