By rights reddit should have died a long while ago. You can’t piss off huge swaths of your user base this routinely and keep getting the page clicks.
Perhaps they think they’ve gotten too big to fail?
Perhaps China has propped it up with bots.
Regardless, reddit is soon to be dead. I used to love this site because I could get all the news and latest events. Now it’s so politicized and they actively suppress news and happenings. What is the point of a news and content aggregator when they hide content and suppress news?
The DNC has given lots of money to reddit. This was well documented back on The_Donald which has conveniently gone invisible.
It’s what spurred r/politics to go so heavily left. The moderating team was “reinforced” with hardcore, non-objective liberals. Also ShareBlue and CorrectTheRecord became hugely involved on reddit during the election.
There was a moment when the DNC had to decide on a strategy, and reddit actually became somewhat politically centered for a brief day or two. Once the orders came through, it was more leftist astroturfing.
Anyone remember Air America? That was one of the first attempts to imitate Limbaugh and other conservative's dominance of talk radio. It was a humiliating defeat for them. It was nearly instantly involved in a huge financial scandal, went bankrupt, then was kept afloat by two New York real estate guys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_%28radio_network%29
Yep, talentless hacks. Every liberal is an expert on everything and there isn't one of them who believes they can't absolutely excel as a talk radio host.
I was driving across california once, and got to play the "What radio station is actually tune-inable game. I believe I was around the Altamont pass, when I tuned into Jennine Garrafolos show.
It was clear within minutes that nobody on that network understood radio broadcasting.
They constantly make fun of the zoo crews and Jimmy and the Wolf or what have you, but they don't understand a world where you don't get multiple takes.
First it was 100% bernie but once hillary stole the 2016 primary to be the democrat candidate it made a 180, followed by correct the record. Oh and its more 80% anti Trump, 20% pro hillary.
It's this one. One of the people spez disappeared early last year did some analytics and discovered that reddit traffic is about 60% bots.
Between that and the DNC funneling money to keep the site controlled by bolshevik activists in mod positions, that's how they stay in business. Pretty much the same as twitter.
Its got that thing the Ottoman Empire had. Where they would proudly say that they are so far gone as a country no exterior force could topple them just through sheer momentum. Reddit is the same way, a whole lotta momentum keeping it going.
Reddit died with Aaron. So much more to be said but we all know the truth. It's a goddamned shame what it has morphed into and a disgrace to the vision of it's founder.
A man who was saw something wrong with our system. The tax payers spend money on science / research and don't have access to the benefits of that purchase. In fact other companies that weren't involved at all in the process make billions off of the tax payers backs, and then in turn charge (tax payer funded) public Universities for access to their own work again.
I want to spend the bulk of my remaining time on another global problem: the rise and monopolistic behavior of the giant IT platform companies. These companies have often played an innovative and liberating role. But as Facebook and Google have grown into ever more powerful monopolies, they have become obstacles to innovation, and they have caused a variety of problems of which we are only now beginning to become aware.
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Social media companies deceive their users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own commercial purposes. They deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide. This can be very harmful, particularly for adolescents.
Depends on which part of the left, I used to be on the left and my views haven't changed much at all but the current left has changed drastically.
Some on the left would never come here because "they are on the left" and we are their enemy, they can't see past that. The reality is, Trump is just center-left of two decades ago, it can easily be argued that Bill Clinton was more to the right of Trump on many issues.
In the past, when Clinton was in office, the right were the ones running a moral panic trying to control and censor everyone and trying to ban Harry Potter books.
What is so sad about this and the retards over at reddit: if the phrase "I'm left wing, and" did not exist in that paragraph it would be -2474 votes. For real.
I hope people understand that nothing about the course Silicon Valley tech companies have taken is organic. All of these companies, absolutely all of them, have been conscripted by government. In some cases our government, in other cases foreign, but it's government in every case.
Once it became clear in the early 2000s that the Internet was going to be the leading communications medium of the 21st century, there was no way government was going to allow control of that medium to slip away. The world wide web, as it has become (a very different thing than how it was originally envisioned) is the most effective propaganda tool in human history.
The ability of a Leftist to excoriate a hated authority figure is something to behold.
Never forget that supporters of Donald and Liberty are BI-PARTISAN.
Although the precise mixture of this ALLOY incorporates a higher proportion of right-wing constituents, this serves to stiffen and reinforce, thus enabling our left-wing components to cut with greater ferocity.
Anyone asserting that our movement is homogenous in its composition is attempting to divide and destroy us.
At the end of the day big tech companies are calling the Congresses bluff and pretty much smearing it in all ours and POTUS face at this point. Like said before by many people, this isn't left vs right anymore, any fucking "liberal" who openly applauds censorship isn't a fucking liberal for one, you are a Communist through an through. This is Communism vs. Freedom, so if you still decide to vote Biden because you think he is an old Blue Dog Democrat you are so fucking wrong it hurts and kill yourself you dirty pinko traitor.
[s]pez is just like those physically inferior losers in all those teenage dystopian movies: they weasel their way into a position of authority, lie and shit on everyone under their sphere of influence, and ultimately are destroyed by the shitstorm they alone created.
The only difference is that this is all happening in real life.
Yup. My TDS ridden sister in law treats her Facebook page like she was a pulitzer winning journalist. Multi-page long posts of nothing but pure virtue signaling. She even has things she posts daily at a set time. The only people on her friends list are just as TDS stricken and only serve to further her addiction by clicking like and replying now and again. It truly is an addiction for her. While she thinks she's well on her way to a pulitzer her child is raising herself, her house is deteriorating to the point where we no longer go over for visits because of safety concerns, and she has a masters degree in accounting and lives in a middle class neighborhood. Her life is literally crumbling around her but all she cares about is getting a handful of likes on today's "Here's why Trump is bad" post. Truly pathetic.
They're dedicating some real AI processing power towards censoring this on reddit, even screen captures get insta nuked.
The instantaneous removal means they have dedicated some real resources towards character recognition of images to keep screenshots that goes against the narrative from being posted.
I'd like to refer everyone to the Corporate Darwin award for tumblr. They decided to ban and censor porn, and people left. Company went from hundreds of millions of dollars worth to not being worth enough to buy a single bedroom house in San Francisco.
One of the most successful cons the commies pulled off was getting people to call them "liberals" using the "tell a lie long enough" strategy when they saw that calling themselves "progressives" wouldn't be enough.
It's more likely that in the next few days the dims will push forward something else as a distraction and people will forget about being mad at reddit and be mad at the new thing. The majority of the population are like babies when you jingle a set of car keys in front of them.
It makes me happy that even some left wingers see the evil in this obvert censorship. Gives me hope that we could be united one day on a set of fundamental rights.
By rights reddit should have died a long while ago. You can’t piss off huge swaths of your user base this routinely and keep getting the page clicks. Perhaps they think they’ve gotten too big to fail?
Perhaps China has propped it up with bots.
Regardless, reddit is soon to be dead. I used to love this site because I could get all the news and latest events. Now it’s so politicized and they actively suppress news and happenings. What is the point of a news and content aggregator when they hide content and suppress news?
The DNC has given lots of money to reddit. This was well documented back on The_Donald which has conveniently gone invisible.
It’s what spurred r/politics to go so heavily left. The moderating team was “reinforced” with hardcore, non-objective liberals. Also ShareBlue and CorrectTheRecord became hugely involved on reddit during the election.
There was a moment when the DNC had to decide on a strategy, and reddit actually became somewhat politically centered for a brief day or two. Once the orders came through, it was more leftist astroturfing.
Anyone remember Air America? That was one of the first attempts to imitate Limbaugh and other conservative's dominance of talk radio. It was a humiliating defeat for them. It was nearly instantly involved in a huge financial scandal, went bankrupt, then was kept afloat by two New York real estate guys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_%28radio_network%29
Oh god, Air America ... you think Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo are painfully unfunny on TV? Try em on AM radio!
Yep, talentless hacks. Every liberal is an expert on everything and there isn't one of them who believes they can't absolutely excel as a talk radio host.
My favorite example: https://omny.fm/shows/rich-zeoli/wpht-presents-alec-baldwin-rich-zeoli-show
Shorter clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kzRtrj6AWE
Never heard of it, but it makes sense that it would fail since liberals have no jobs and therefore zero commute time to listen to AM radio.
I briefly remember it...it was dull as fuq.
I was driving across california once, and got to play the "What radio station is actually tune-inable game. I believe I was around the Altamont pass, when I tuned into Jennine Garrafolos show.
It was clear within minutes that nobody on that network understood radio broadcasting.
They constantly make fun of the zoo crews and Jimmy and the Wolf or what have you, but they don't understand a world where you don't get multiple takes.
Rumor has it that /r/politics was bought out by CTR during the last election cycle.
I think the mod and admin team has people double dipping with CTR.
Back when it was close between Hillary and Bernie, there were a ton of copypasta talking point NPCs for Hillary. If called out, they would ban you.
First it was 100% bernie but once hillary stole the 2016 primary to be the democrat candidate it made a 180, followed by correct the record. Oh and its more 80% anti Trump, 20% pro hillary.
It's this one. One of the people spez disappeared early last year did some analytics and discovered that reddit traffic is about 60% bots.
Between that and the DNC funneling money to keep the site controlled by bolshevik activists in mod positions, that's how they stay in business. Pretty much the same as twitter.
I believe Reddit is getting ready to go public. This is why they are purging all these corporate unfriendly subs, accounts and comments.
The irony of course is by destroying its core business model, there will be no one left to advertise to.
Well, it would be a chance for the current CEO and staff with options to cash out before it goes tits up.
Be reminded, Chinese bots = mindless human drones serving their government propaganda apparatus.
Its got that thing the Ottoman Empire had. Where they would proudly say that they are so far gone as a country no exterior force could topple them just through sheer momentum. Reddit is the same way, a whole lotta momentum keeping it going.
They really need to stop buying gold and other meaningless awards to good posts.
I was given gold and stuff back when I was on there. I never spent a dime.
I used it to gild conservative posts. Anti-reddit/pro-Trump, etc.
Hey that content you made was soo awesome I'm going to give someone else money!
like fuck outta here...
Spicy with the beginnings of a redpill hidden in the center of it.
The most upvoted reply is from an account called "LikelyToBeBanned" Reddit is dying.
Reddit died with Aaron. So much more to be said but we all know the truth. It's a goddamned shame what it has morphed into and a disgrace to the vision of it's founder.
RIP Aaron Swartz.
A man who was saw something wrong with our system. The tax payers spend money on science / research and don't have access to the benefits of that purchase. In fact other companies that weren't involved at all in the process make billions off of the tax payers backs, and then in turn charge (tax payer funded) public Universities for access to their own work again.
Aaron was forced on Spez by Paul Graham in return for more investment
Spez never believed in free speech
Nice post. Frick, I have something in common with someone on the left. Imagine that.
And George Soros
The IT monopolies
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https://www.georgesoros.com/2018/01/25/remarks-delivered-at-the-world-economic-forum/
Depends on which part of the left, I used to be on the left and my views haven't changed much at all but the current left has changed drastically.
Some on the left would never come here because "they are on the left" and we are their enemy, they can't see past that. The reality is, Trump is just center-left of two decades ago, it can easily be argued that Bill Clinton was more to the right of Trump on many issues.
In the past, when Clinton was in office, the right were the ones running a moral panic trying to control and censor everyone and trying to ban Harry Potter books.
Look at the cucks giving Reddit cash, to reward a post criticising Reddit.
The admins can give gold etc for free, they used to do it to us on T_D when we said don't buy gold. Wouldn't be surprised if Spez gilded that post.
What is so sad about this and the retards over at reddit: if the phrase "I'm left wing, and" did not exist in that paragraph it would be -2474 votes. For real.
I hope people understand that nothing about the course Silicon Valley tech companies have taken is organic. All of these companies, absolutely all of them, have been conscripted by government. In some cases our government, in other cases foreign, but it's government in every case.
Once it became clear in the early 2000s that the Internet was going to be the leading communications medium of the 21st century, there was no way government was going to allow control of that medium to slip away. The world wide web, as it has become (a very different thing than how it was originally envisioned) is the most effective propaganda tool in human history.
The ability of a Leftist to excoriate a hated authority figure is something to behold.
Never forget that supporters of Donald and Liberty are BI-PARTISAN.
Although the precise mixture of this ALLOY incorporates a higher proportion of right-wing constituents, this serves to stiffen and reinforce, thus enabling our left-wing components to cut with greater ferocity.
Anyone asserting that our movement is homogenous in its composition is attempting to divide and destroy us.
nicely put.
I respect principled lefties as much as I do principled conservatives. As long as people stick to their guns and don't equivocate I'm all in.
also, they need to know what they are talking about.
Haha, I took this screenshot and posted it on voat. Nice to see.
well hell. i didnt think i would like anyone on reddit at this point.
At the end of the day big tech companies are calling the Congresses bluff and pretty much smearing it in all ours and POTUS face at this point. Like said before by many people, this isn't left vs right anymore, any fucking "liberal" who openly applauds censorship isn't a fucking liberal for one, you are a Communist through an through. This is Communism vs. Freedom, so if you still decide to vote Biden because you think he is an old Blue Dog Democrat you are so fucking wrong it hurts and kill yourself you dirty pinko traitor.
Congress needs to act, NOW.
[s]pez is just like those physically inferior losers in all those teenage dystopian movies: they weasel their way into a position of authority, lie and shit on everyone under their sphere of influence, and ultimately are destroyed by the shitstorm they alone created.
The only difference is that this is all happening in real life.
Key word there: addictive.
Yup. My TDS ridden sister in law treats her Facebook page like she was a pulitzer winning journalist. Multi-page long posts of nothing but pure virtue signaling. She even has things she posts daily at a set time. The only people on her friends list are just as TDS stricken and only serve to further her addiction by clicking like and replying now and again. It truly is an addiction for her. While she thinks she's well on her way to a pulitzer her child is raising herself, her house is deteriorating to the point where we no longer go over for visits because of safety concerns, and she has a masters degree in accounting and lives in a middle class neighborhood. Her life is literally crumbling around her but all she cares about is getting a handful of likes on today's "Here's why Trump is bad" post. Truly pathetic.
They're dedicating some real AI processing power towards censoring this on reddit, even screen captures get insta nuked.
The instantaneous removal means they have dedicated some real resources towards character recognition of images to keep screenshots that goes against the narrative from being posted.
(anyone have any ideas on how to beat this?)
I'm sure if I checked, the comment is gone. But to do so, I'd have to create another account and fuck that.
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/fweahhv/?context=3
Thanks man, I really enjoyed reading that.
Amazing.
The upvotes are amazing. Most have posted when the chinese bots were asleep.
I'd like to refer everyone to the Corporate Darwin award for tumblr. They decided to ban and censor porn, and people left. Company went from hundreds of millions of dollars worth to not being worth enough to buy a single bedroom house in San Francisco.
Reddit will join.
A person who is a famous Reddit pedo.
Whoever it was is now suspended.
Oh, I Googled him, creator and moderator of jailbait and a number of other creepy subs.
One of the most successful cons the commies pulled off was getting people to call them "liberals" using the "tell a lie long enough" strategy when they saw that calling themselves "progressives" wouldn't be enough.
Is that a -3k next to Spez? Holy shit the firestorm is glorious to watch!
Almost every comment he made, always have karma points in the negative. This is not his first time. I think one time, I've saw it to be at -10k.
However, when you look at his profile, you will see his karma is really high.
Obv. manipulation of karma.
R/quityourbullshit
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/fweahhv/?context=3
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They got hugged to death by a lot of fleeing Redditors.
lol ruqqus
It's more likely that in the next few days the dims will push forward something else as a distraction and people will forget about being mad at reddit and be mad at the new thing. The majority of the population are like babies when you jingle a set of car keys in front of them.
This is the type of person who eventually ends us HERE and becomes one of our most articulate posters!
truth!
Cucked from orbit
It makes me happy that even some left wingers see the evil in this obvert censorship. Gives me hope that we could be united one day on a set of fundamental rights.
Doxxing Karens...
...sounds like a service to humanity, truth be told.
This is beautiful. I think they should be one of us, they sure have the balls!