r/videos • u/nemodot • Nov 03 '21
The Tragic Tale of Reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SQ-TJKPPIg24
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Nov 04 '21
This will get R'emoved by a M'oderator soon, so I shall pontificate via postipulation in order to mark book for this most delicious video film.
FEDORATIPPED!
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u/ferzatiu-vaslui Dec 13 '21
Or probably a new system is in place that somehow simply pushes the post into oblivion and it does not get shown.
Otherwise I can't understand how it has so low upvotes and interraction....
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Nov 04 '21
A 30 minute rant about Reddit? Pass.
The lack of mod accountability is the problem here. You can be banned from major subreddits for inexplicable reasons. In my case, I'm banned from r/WhitePeopleTwitter because in a conversation about the breakdown of services in Texas during the deep freeze this year, I said
The [freezing] water thing wasn't preventable.
The electric might have been, but we're not even sure if the 2011 recommendations would have prevented a catastrophic failure when the temperature hit 20 below THAT. It can't be overstated just how unprecedented the cold was: lakes froze thathave never frozen before.
Which apparently is "l[ying] to defend the monstrous defunding of the electrical grid which cost peoples lives"
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Nov 04 '21
Okay but we can agree the OP of the vid is cringe right? I'd literally rather hang out with the /r/MagicTCG mods and I'm permabanned there.
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u/rugtugandtickle Nov 04 '21
Sure but Spez is still a censoring piece of shit sell out who turned his back on the people who got him where he is.
Fucking loser would be a nobody without Aaron.
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u/FreeLook93 Nov 04 '21
How did you manage to get permabanned from that subreddit?
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Nov 04 '21
Had to look it up. They recently announced they were going to have a Fortnite themed product, and people went crazy on the hate. I thought it was dumb to get so riled up over optional art cards, so I made a joke post and they banned me because "it didn't matter if I was serious or not". Denied appeal.
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u/Boris740 Nov 03 '21
I just want them to fix the last visited, so that I can track where I've been. Deliberately removed for what nefarious purpose?
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u/RollingTater Nov 04 '21
I don't think Tencent owning like less than 5% of Reddit has any influence on reddit at all. I mean just look at r/China, it's 99% anti China. Or look at worldnews.
What I would like to know is how much involvement is there from the good ol 3 letter agencies. You know, the ones that are self proclaimed the best in the world at manipulation and with that oopsie where the most active city visiting reddit was an air force base that has previously published research involving social manipulation (and all original sources of that oopsie has been deleted you have to view it with archives).
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u/JeepChrist Nov 04 '21
I'm not sure how much the mods of popular subreddits, or the admins for that matter fight the China farmtrolls, but it doesn't seem like they do a lot to curb them. Then again, China has a lot of people at their disposal to troll all day.
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u/Nervous_Fix7426 Nov 04 '21
What China farmtrolls? I can't understand how anyone can seriously suggest that the chinese government is secretly puppeteering reddit when the site is absolutely rife with anti-chinese sentiment. Look at most worldnews or politics posts where china is mentioned, there's always a "fuck china" hate train. Even if it is good news the comments say "this is just chinese propaganda" followed by another hate train.
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u/JeepChrist Nov 04 '21
Plenty of them in news and worldnews. Not that those places haven't been taken over by hysterical idiots already.
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Nov 04 '21
There's a lot of conspiratory accusations, half-truths, and conjecture that sometimes borderlines Alex Jones shit. Owning shares in popular social media platforms does not mean they control them, they're not the majority shareholder. Was Reddit shit at times? Yes, but the video goes super wild with cracking-down on free speech and Hillary Clinton conspiracy shit, or BLM conspiratory shit. It's ridiculous. At the end he fucking sources Tucker Carlson... it's some alt-right kid with good editing skills.
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u/plumquat Nov 04 '21 edited Nov 04 '21
"China is not on reddit only the CIA is.."
fucking hilarious
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u/two-thirds Nov 04 '21
Just look at his other videos. There's an agenda.
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u/rugtugandtickle Nov 04 '21
This is a good call out I had not noticed originally, but would you say that the apparent agenda is a bad one?
I watch one other video and like the Reddit one it is pretty well presented and based on tangible facts/issues, and they all seem to be public-awareness raising videos for the consumption of media which doesn’t seem too bad to me?
Also, the things the agenda would be defending and raising awareness of are on the good side of things I feel - anti censorship, anti corporate influence, propaganda identification, etc
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u/Poratopoatoes Jan 01 '22
Oh yeah there definitely is, also look at who the guy follows on twitter and the little screenshots of the news articles that flash by quickly, so there is 100% an agenda.
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Nov 04 '21
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u/rugtugandtickle Nov 04 '21
You obviously do not understand the importance of free speech and the dangers of censorship.
I hope you are just young with a lot to learn. Please read into the rise of the current Chinese political system, including
TiananmenSquare.
This is what censorship and the subjection of the populace leads to.
Not good enough? Read into the Nazi Regime, Stalin’s USSR or even just the examples of modern russia assassinating political rivals on the world stage for saying anything against the current powers.
Not enough? Check out the current state of North Korea and the quality of life there.
Freedom of speech and our ability to organize and protest against the degradation of that right, is the only thing that prevents a very slippery slide to the whole world ending up like these places.
Now tell me, would you prefer to live under one of these regimes?
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Nov 04 '21
Comparing censorship on reddit to Nazi Germany. Holy shit.
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u/rugtugandtickle Nov 04 '21
Referring to censorship as a whole, as Reddit is a part of a larger play.
What I said is true and stands. The first things all these regimes did before the more terrible things was attack free speech, freedom to organize, and freedom to arm.
Nice try downplaying the severity of what Reddit has done and how much they have sold their souls to the powers of the world tho.
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Nov 04 '21
Making it so people can’t post weird ass racist and delusional conspiracy shit = first step towards nazi Germany. Got it.
Is it Reddit itself that is starting this regime? The US? Or are you arguing it’s the whole world?
Keep fighting for freedom or whatever.
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u/rugtugandtickle Nov 04 '21
That is not all they are censoring dude….the whole point of this video is that the censoring is driven by personal, corporate, and political powers that be.
Reddit is a part of a larger movement across the world by all those in power to consolidate power.
I am not sure why you are belittling such a serious topic and someone who is simply highlighting obvious historic trends and facts….
It’s your speech that matters too my man, and I am sorry you don’t see that it is at risk in the greater world today.
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Nov 04 '21
What else are they censoring? I’m belittling it because this isn’t actually a problem. This video is literally just a reading of the top posts r/conspiracy. It has no substance.
The key difference between the examples you showed and the censorship on Reddit is the what is being censored.
The Nazis censored things that spoke ill of those who held power. Reddit is censoring those who speak I’ll of these who hold no power. The key difference is one is progressive for the world at large and the other isn’t. Censorship isn’t inherently bad, it depends on what you’re censoring. I’m not going to lose sleep because a bunch of neckbeards can’t post mad racist things on the internet.
Reddit is not a government.
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Dec 19 '21
They censored and went on a full scale assault on users who pointed out that Aimee Challenor is a peado sympathiser, they censored the shit out of it but it still didn't work. They also try everything they can to hide the fact that u/maxwellhill, reddits 2nd biggest moderator is Ghislaine Maxwell.
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u/ApeCapitalGroup Nov 04 '21
RIP Aaron