Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship

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[–]Fictionsaur 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It's bad reddit didn't have any significant competition as a primarily anon website for debate. If other communities like saidit appeared earlier, there would be a more equal distribution of users among these communities and so when reddit go down the path of censorship we could just migrate there. Instead, because of the monopoly, reddit will always come up as the first option for people looking for an anon website.

It's a private company. We can only try to bring as much users to join alternative communities enough for them to compete against reddit even though it will take a long time to happen.

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    [–]AFutureConcern 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 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