Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship

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    [–]AFutureConcern 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

    You're absolutely right. Google censor anything that could be considered a free speech platform that competes with the tech monopolies (let alone an actual right-biased site). Reddit blocks any links to thedonald.win or voat.co - and shadowbans you if you mention saidit.net. They intentionally fracture competitors as well - if one gets too popular, you can bet it will be censored and another alternative promoted. Since there is no expectation of free speech from the masses anymore, and leftist fools will side with big tech, denying that any censorship is happening, the tech companies feel absolutely free to stifle their competition through aggressive censorship and control of the public discourse.

    [–]konoplya 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    google is absolutely disgusting. half the shit i'm trying to find i can't find anymore. i resort to duckduckgo, which i used to bash for its cumbersome search results, until very recently. i still use google for non-hot topic queries, but anything politcal related or anti left you can't find much anymore. same with youtube results. its absolute shit, unless you change up the filters and sift through a ton of crap to find something useful.

    [–]bagano1 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Many countries are gearing up to go to war against Google. It's the beginning of the end.

    [–]oneinchterror 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Good. It's about time. They should have been destroyed the moment they dropped "don't be evil" as their motto.

    [–]Honestanonymous 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Google is censoring the fuck out of everything

    [–]Dragonerne 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    The solution for the right is to ban leftist companies. Use their own cancel culture against them.

    The right is afraid of big government because we know that the leftists will use it to oppress us. The left isn't afraid of centralized power because they know that the right wont use it against them. It's time we play their own game.

    [–]jet199 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    Reminds me of something I read along the lines of "it's funny how Ken Loach makes endless films about how bad, faceless and useless government is but votes for more government."

    It's not that they don't know centralised power is bad. They just think somehow it would be magically better with themselves in charge.

    [–]Dragonerne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yes exactly. There is nothing in fact that drives them more mad than centralised power. They're fueled by their hate of centralised power but only when its used against them, because that's an injustice.

    [–]Honestanonymous 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That's exactly the problem and look at how the Chaz/chop went or evergreen college, as soon as these passive aggressive jellyfish fucks get their tentacles on any power they start abusing the shit out of it, I wouldn't be surprised if they started putting people in camps for racism or something absurdly stupid like that

    [–]tuesday 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Is reddit blocking s a i d i t.n e t

    [–]AFutureConcern 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    There are of course ways to encode the information that an automated tool cannot catch, for example

    int.to_bytes(544869074015978395690356, 10, 'big').decode()

    But the mods & admins will surely be watching. If they see you promoting saidit they may well manually shadowban you.

    [–]thebonkest 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Because people can't just make alts or put the URL in memes.

    [–]Honestanonymous 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Those are some barbaric and cutthroat vicious aggressive people

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      [–]Dragonerne 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

      Yes, try finding studies on race and IQ with google. You'll have an easy time finding studies that are misleading based on fallacies from the 70s, but finding the useful studies is a lot harder.
      I think they use social media to weight the links so they cluster "wrong think" people and based on the links they post or click they decrease/increase in ranking.
      I would assume reddit does this too with their upvoting system. Some votes count more than others - at scale. For small numbers you wont notice but say 1000 upvotes from the "wrong" group might count as only 700 while 1000 upvotes from the "right" group might count as 1500.
      This would be an easy way to control filter content.

      [–]thebonkest 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      I noticed Ruqqus actually does this too when I was downvoted for calling out a racist. Went from 115 Rep to 27 rep, all for two posts that were -14 and -15 points, respectively.

      It's scary how the world is splitting up into factions and how entire social systems are being set up to glorify the opinions of the political faction they market to.

      [–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      Not saying they don't do it but have you considered that some people went through your profile and downvoted all your posts as a possibility?

      [–]thebonkest 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      I checked, those were the only two affected. Any place that allows downvoting opens the door to ideologues exploiting it to silence those they disagree with. And developers will skew algorithms to do the same.

      [–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      You can do the same on saidit without downvotes. I hope they wont do that in the future.

      [–]PencilPusher55 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Wow! You're right. It is always those lame ass articles "me spent one week on the alt-right version of da innternet!"

      [–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      It's hard to fight a system that owns the system and knows you're coming.