Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship

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[–]dfreally 30 insightful - 4 fun30 insightful - 3 fun31 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

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.

[–]PencilPusher55 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What do you personally think will happen? I think it will be an interesting experiment to watch an echo chamber that keeps enforcing it's laws and restrictions. Will more people get sucked in or will it eventually destroy itself?

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

More people will be sucked in initially and then they will self-devour. When every opinion is the same they slowly push to the more extreme and they will continue to alienate the mildly extreme. I suspect this will be the cycle for quite a while until it finally implodes and fades into obscurity.