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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Reddit is being funded by a fake company?
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You ever seen the front page? There is little to no "pro-American" content.
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It depends on your definition of “America”. Do you mean “white Christians” or do you mean “all men are created equal”, separation of church and state, etc.
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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?
>Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that?
The owner(s) of the platform or service. As per the terms of service you agreed to in exchange for an account on that platform or service.
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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?
>Who is the arbiter of that? Which authority gets to judge that? The owner(s) of the platform or service. As per the terms of service you agreed to in exchange for an account on that platform or service.
You forgot to mention he was banned for the insurrection.
"...due to the risk of further incitement of violence..." Was their reasoning, and I think it probably prevented more violence.
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#75I 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.
I don't understand this... Reddit has been very heavily moderated since I've used it (I don't remember dates, but well before 2016). mods can pretty much censor whatever they want for whatever reason they want.
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No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.
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.
And you're downvoting me right now for telling you the actual truth.
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User peppustimbus replied with the archive version but is shadowbanned. This is the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220513210317/https://old.reddi... This could just be a wealthy family office, I have first hand knowledge of one such company that would have no website or information online other than a few things in filings but manages several billion dollars.
This post claims that the person controlling the family office is now 18, and is also spending money to be philanthropic. This could be someone who inherited money trying to buy their way into legitimization/importance in the world, tech world especially. Which is honestly a far more reasonable use for inherited money if you want to do something interesting with your life than "bought yacht, coke, women". If the tota…
And down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole we go! I love your theory, and it's very plausible. In a way this just boils down to "was the money 'good' or 'bad'?" and "will the money be used for 'good' or 'bad'?". It's fun to speculate, it's best to know more of the truth.
My hope this will blow up a bit so we get more information (it's in the public's best interest to know more). This is the way all "conspiracy theories" should go, at least those with credible theories to test.
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#78I 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.
You also mean they were victims of social media propaganda and gaming the system /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots. If you're pro free speech you'll need to answer towards the onslaught of bot based content generation and fake users
You say this like they didn’t already have this issue with jailbait half a decade before td. If they had at all come up with a reasonable policy after experiencing many issues before the Donald. Even if you say ok that was only for nsfw reddits they also had to deal with fatpeoplehate.
It is absurd to say that the problem started with robot or mechanically generated content. They haven’t ever been effective or smart in developing content policies that work.
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#79I 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.
No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.
> No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.
There is just the racism reddit moderation agrees with and the racism reddit moderation doesn't agree with, the misogyny reddit moderation agrees with and the misogyny reddit moderation doesn't agree with.
So when you're claiming that reddit moderations are reasonable, you're just claiming they agree with who you allow and who you doesn't allow being the target of bigotry.
I consider porn a form of misogyny for instance, reddit allows porn, and some very depraved form of porn, so don't claim reddit has reasonable terms of services and fights "bigotry", you just don't care about the former.
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#80I 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.
No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.
Yes. Even if the reedits if the world don't talk about the paradox of intolerance they act according to it and they dampen hate speech to enable free speech.