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I'm hoping when the day comes, it isn't too violent. But history has its own thing to say about that.
It is troubling that, in the US at least, one of the two major political constituencies has a lot more guns than the other....
Watch out folks - critical discussions about Reddit seem to be getting flagged as flame bait. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347400 Idk why. We should be able to have a civilized, intellectually curious discussion about this. The future of Reddit (and its implications for the future of the Internet) is pretty on-topic to me for HN. @dang can we get a stance on this?
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Why should I trust the CEO who was just recently caught in a lie about blackmail despite evidence to the contrary and in the past has straight up edited people’s comments without any notification that Reddit is responsible for the edits?
What does CEO trust have to do with any of this?
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You mean like a China-style social credit system?
Yes and no. Like China, in that users are identifiable in the real world, and held accountable for their actions. Unlike China in that it's not about mass surveillance and mass shaping of behavior and political opinion. Think of it like a drivers license, but for the internet. Keeps people from anonymously performing drive by shootings and hit-and-run type events, because the car/driver can be traced back to a real p…