Reddit doing CCP's censorship for them - Removed post: [#23|+5954|282] Wimbledon champion Peng Shuai disappears after accusing Chinese politician of abuse [r/worldnews]

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[–]Red23 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Just to clarify; Peng Shui won the Wimbledon Women's Doubles final in 2013.

[–]HiddenFox 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lest we forget? Was there not a large ($100 million if I remember correctly) investment from a Chinese company not so many years ago? (Which is just the CPP anyway)

I doubt anyone would be shocked if this was a form of soft censorship. Reddit has lots all credibility some time ago.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fairly popular post about how a tennis champion disappeared after speaking out against abuses she suffered from a politician is removed by reddit. Reddit is at least 10% owned by China, and here we see them literally doing the CCP's bidding by removing this post

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

might be fake news because I went to r/worldnews and there is an article about this like ten threads down so maybe they just deleted that one so someone else can get the karma

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

That could be. But there also exists the soft censorship of deleting a peaking story as it's rising over a technicality, but then allowing later replacements that will never get as high. It probably limits the visibility of the story by 70% as it'll never hit the top spot again, but no one can technically cry censorship as it's still being allowed. It's a smart form of soft censorship without ruffling too many feathers. Not sure if that's what's happening here but it's possible

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

good point

they might also soon delete the other thread if it gets too popular, and keep deleting them like a wack a mole

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yup. And then they may even reinstate some of them later after it doesn't matter anymore, and then go "Look, we didn't censor anything". There's a lot of very subtle manipulation happening on reddit, in addition to the overt manipulation

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

Political dissidents there would be lucky to stay in one piece and in one person.