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

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

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Post by jcwpwi2d »

sergiotapia wrote: post #43
sodosopa wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Editing one post is bad, but also consider that they've become a massive safe harbor for the alt-right. Reddit admins routinely dismiss threats, quick to hide accounts from people like Elliott Rodgers, etc. They edited a the_donald post all while allowing bigotry and hate speech flourish on Reddit.

> consider that they've become a massive safe harbor for the alt-right. I would say 95% of the website is firmly liberal. Try saying anything conservative anywhere on the platform and you'll be either: - Banned - Downvoted - Shadowbanned

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

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Post by boron1006 »

rayhendricks wrote: post #5

Deleted my reddit account. They can take their $150 million, but freedom of speech and more specifically being able to criticize the state is more important than your daily dose of catpics.

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.

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

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Post by rplst8 »

sodosopa wrote: post #41
rayhendricks wrote: post #5

Deleted my reddit account. They can take their $150 million, but freedom of speech and more specifically being able to criticize the state is more important than your daily dose of catpics.

it's a private company, there's no freedom of speech involved. You want a baker to create a cake that says an offensive message, the baker doesn't' have to comply.

Internet companies have protection under the law that they can't be held liable for what their users say. IMHO that protection brings with it a duty to allow people to speak freely on their platform.

They can't eat their cake and have it too.

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

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Post by ardy42 »

clircle wrote: post #21

Not according to the first 50 posts on r/all. I don't see anything about China. Must have blown over already.

It looks like those posts from the story are still as high as #3 on r/pics right now (and the graphic ones are at start at #5):

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190209154115/https://www.reddi...

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

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Post by renlo »

sodosopa wrote: post #41
rayhendricks wrote: post #5

Deleted my reddit account. They can take their $150 million, but freedom of speech and more specifically being able to criticize the state is more important than your daily dose of catpics.

it's a private company, there's no freedom of speech involved. You want a baker to create a cake that says an offensive message, the baker doesn't' have to comply.

What if the telephone company doesn't want to carry your offensive message to your friend? It's a private company, the telephone company doesn't have to comply.

In other words, I don't think your analogy entirely fits here, as Reddit is more of a platform for communication, they're not paying an artist (baker) to create some art. Jus' sayin'

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

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Post by maayank »

qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #45
yuxt wrote: post #31

I am surprised no one mentioned Digg here. It was the original Reddit. Arguably its demise is attributed by inflow of VCs capital following by pivoting direction. Which resulted in community leaving for Reddit. P.S. found this old article https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/07/13/reddit-didn...

I liked digg. A lot. Then v2.0 came, and I left to Reddit. A few months ago, I had a script write over all my comments, and deleted the account. Reddit is the new digg v3.0.

What’s the current alternative?

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

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Post by RyanShook »

CydeWeys wrote: post #46
yuxt wrote: post #31

I am surprised no one mentioned Digg here. It was the original Reddit. Arguably its demise is attributed by inflow of VCs capital following by pivoting direction. Which resulted in community leaving for Reddit. P.S. found this old article https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/07/13/reddit-didn...

I'm still amazed by how ill-conceived everything having to do with that redesign was, including the new design itself, the rollout plan, apparent lack of load testing, and no ability to roll back. Contrast with reddit's redesign, which was rolled out slowly and incrementally. More recently Snap had a redesign that was received almost as poorly, but at least they executed it competently.

I mostly attribute both of those bad moves to strong founders who were convinced they knew what people really wanted.
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