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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by voakbasda »

0des wrote: post #57
nceqs3 wrote: post #46

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You ever seen the front page? There is little to no "pro-American" content.

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No, both parties are “pro-America”, but they each have vastly different ideas of what their America should look like. Theses parties are actively engaged in a civil war in the courts, which is increasingly spilling out into acts of violence.

Meanwhile, many moderate Americans stand on the sidelines in total disbelief, as they both work destroy the principles on which the country was founded.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by 0des »

beamatronic wrote: post #72
0des wrote: post #57

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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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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by logicalmonster »

cyanydeez wrote: post #47
narrator wrote: post #15

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.

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

> /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots.

Just curious, how do you know for a fact that bots were involved in boosting the content? I mean, I'm sure that's possible, it's just that the level of energy/enthusiasm there among the users was extremely high to the point that I think it's reasonable to think that the subreddit's success was mostly just people being enthusiastic and wanting to upvote everything.

As far as bot based content-generation goes, that seems a little far-fetched to me given the level of humor and quality of the memes. Human humor to that level seems beyond reach of whatever technology was state of the art in 2015-2016 or even now.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by krapp »

monetus wrote: post #74
krapp wrote: post #73

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>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.

I agree. Honestly, since we're talking about Trump's personal account (not even the official @POTUS account) I think he should have been banned much earlier.

I'm just pointing out that the slippery slope argument of "who gets to decide what is an isn't disinformation" on a specific platform which always gets brought up in this case has an obvious answer.

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Post by nemo44x »

krapp wrote: post #73
nemo44x wrote: post #65

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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.

But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out.

The platform is pressured to arbitrate a certain way and is a political tool. Musk opening up speech will be a breath of fresh air.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by zionic »

octonion wrote: post #41
narrator wrote: post #15

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.

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.

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Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by nemo44x »

monetus wrote: post #74
krapp wrote: post #73

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>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.

What about all the people using the platform to organize and normalize the BLM riots and looting?

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by monetus »

nemo44x wrote: post #87
monetus wrote: post #74

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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.

What about all the people using the platform to organize and normalize the BLM riots and looting?

A lot of them got banned? You should always report when you see people planning violence if that is what you are saying you saw.

Re: Reddit is being funded by a fake company?

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Post by ricardobayes »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

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…

Well the thing I have noticed their 'home feed' in the app (not showing on desktop version) is basically political news and outrage. They seem to be heading the direction of facebook. Pushing outrage content is such a '2020s' thing, I hope it's just a fad.
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