Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform

Post by lstodd » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

Anechoic wrote: post #207

deadalus wrote: post #145

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> the drama it caused is way overblown People have been arrested because of Reddit posts they made. If the admins can edit comments without any indication to the users... They can falsely accuse you of a crime. They can also identify you and ban you specially if you do or say things not in alignment with the founders of Reddit(criticizing Serina Williams got a subreddit banned recently).

criticizing Serina Williams got a subreddit banned recently Sincere question: Was it actually criticism of Serena Williams ("she exhibited poor behavior", "she's lost a step", "her fashion sense sucks", etc) or was it abuse ("she's a man", "she's an ugly pig", etc)? Banning because of the former is unacceptable, but I see no reason why we would expect her husband to permit the latter on his platform.

Post by JohnJamesRambo » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 7:17 PM UTC

sque wrote: post #78

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #66

Are there examples of companies that said “this is enough money” and stopped concentrating on having ever increasing profits every quarter to satisfy VC or stock investors? I think of this a lot lately. It seems companies don’t want to just do what they do well anymore and be satisfied with that. Can someone give me some inspiration? Companies that have such pride in their work that they aren’t constantly looking for…

craigslist???

Post by Novashi » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

wolco wrote: post #240

Novashi wrote: post #221

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>When you run a large platform like Reddit, millions of users are trusting you with some basic and fundamental extensions of speech. Except that they let The_Donald and other rigid subreddits constantly ban people with opinions contrary to their group-think. Where is the speech protection there? Let's also not forget spez and other moderators routinely get death threats. If you're going to be an asshole by saying "fu…

The protection of speech is the reason you are being banned. Each subreddit has an acceptable policy and posting against that could get you booted. The good news is you can start your own with your own rules. Going in the gardening subreddit and talking about your cat will not be looked on positively. Same as the donald with whatever viewpoint you have that doesn't lineup.

Post by Novashi » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

marpstar wrote: post #213

Novashi wrote: post #208

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>but the injustice Let's chill out with the over-the-top rhetoric because few of us are paying customers of reddit and it's their database at the end of the day. Stop manufacturing outrage please

I see your point, but it's bad for Reddit, too. Can their users (and consumers of their ads) trust that posts aren't being doctored?

Post by ssnistfajen » Sat, Feb 09, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

learc83 wrote: post #77

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What is the evidence that reddit is taking the 150 million for censorship? There was a post here that said that reddit was being valued at like $3 billion. Relative to that, 150 million is a tiny amount. Also, Tencent isn't equivalent to the Chinese government. Although the Chinese government certainly has more say in what it's companies can or cannot do, it's not right to say they're the same thing.

If the government wants to use them to pressure Reddit, they can and will. In this instance, Tencent and the government are functionally equivalent.