Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship

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[–]dfreally 30 insightful - 4 fun30 insightful - 3 fun31 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Dumb fucks is all I can say. They could have kept a low profile and quietly shilled, gamed, advertised and manipulated without nobody who isn't keenly paying attention really noticing. Reddit was always biased and left leaning way before too, but it wasn't so overtly in your face.

The censorship and meddling and bias is so in your face and obvious now that nobody in their right mind will take reddit or anything on it seriously.

Once people are dialed in on what's going on, so much of the power is gone, manipulations become way less useful and effective. It's the same thing that MSM has done to themselves. Nobody trusts MSM.

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you could be a centrist and skate by, it was okay.

Now centrist opinions are banned.

Then they're so far left they even started banning some center-left opinions. This is going to backfire bigtime, because that's most of the people on reddit. They're just on an ideological purity trek, and they're alienating more and more of their userbase as they do so.