I'm still shocked Reddit is allowed into the wider ecosystem of tech infrastructure. Between hosting explicit gore content and very extreme pornography with borderline legality at best (Including under Alexis's and Steve's leadership allowing a jailbait subreddit to continue for years) I would have thought they'd be booted from AWS etc.
Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
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#12this is all over the UK press now too:
https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/24/chaos-at-reddit-as-dozens-of-...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-reddit-censoring-the-...
they couldn't have handled this worse
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#13Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?
Quotes in headlines are not scare quotes. They're just quotes. It's a quotation.
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#14This is great. Reddit has been leftist shithole for a while now
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#15Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?
Some people would argue that "censorship" would not apply to a private company owned platform.
That only governments and their agents are qualified to perform act of censorship.
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#16reddit admins responded and specifically said their automod got aggressive, remediated it, and that talking about the admin is alright as long as it isn't a dox attempt or threatening behavior.
Keep this in mind as you see other people claiming falsely that anything is still being censored.
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#17Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?
The problem (from the very start) was censorship.
Reddit has always had the ability to censor.
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#18Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.
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#19Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules. Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
Of course, but that would break some trust where as of now most seizures are of renegade subs. Here if they seize normal subs just because they protest a bad decision by management has the potential of alienating lots of people.
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#20This is great. Reddit has been leftist shithole for a while now
This is one of the most popular opinions on Reddit.