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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

#61

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

Do you prefer Newsmax, OANN, or Fox News?

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

#62
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reveddit.com for all your deleted user/comment needs; just copy/paste the URL of the comment/thread/user. Edit to add: Huh, it's not showing. Normally it would - https://www.reveddit.com/v/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cw...

Unddit works: https://www.unddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cwf/...

It shows zero content

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

#63
post #45

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

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Wasn't Ellen Pao pro-free speech?

https://www.cnet.com/culture/former-reddit-ceo-defends-ellen...

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

#64
Nothing to see here folks.

From Reddit’s press release (https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-secures-funding-to-con...):

> We will raise up to $700 million in Series F funding, led by Fidelity Management and Research Company LLC. and including other existing investors, at a post-money valuation of over $10 billion.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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post #51

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This is a great example of gas lighting right here. Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion. They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.

The president of the United States should be treated no differently than other users of the service. In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowed to continue to break the rules for far longer than normal peoples would have been.

The parent said it’s only bigotry, the kind you’d find at Stormfront, etc, that gets you banned. So now it’s “misinformation”? Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that?

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

#67

I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.

And reddit is still 100x better than old school forums because it's way easier to find the thing you search for

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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post #58
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great example of gas lighting right here. Dear Octonian, users were banned left and right for suggesting Covid was a lab leak or for making their case for why vaccines were problematic. It isn’t just banning if extreme ideas and race, sex, and religion. They banned the president of the United States. It’s about power and controlling the propaganda messaging apparatus.

The president of the United States should be treated no differently than other users of the service. In this case the president repeatedly broke the rules by posting lies and dangerous misinformation. Even given that, his account was allowed to continue to break the rules for far longer than normal peoples would have been.

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

#70

One thing I've noticed with reddit is they constantly push violence to the frontpage and encourage it. Someone calls you a name or uses a racist word, here watch this video of someone getting beat nearly to death for speech and here are 1000 top comments as to why that is perfectly okay and acceptable. I get the feeling the police state actually wants more violence and crime and therefore encourages it quite frequent…

Reminds me of that song by Jedi Mind Tricks - Shadow Business. He said slavery is not illegal that’s a lie, it’s illegal unless it’s for conviction of a crime.
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