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[–]magnora7 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah this is like 5 years ago when there was a video of a cop shooting a dog that went super-viral. People were PISSED. And then reddit started plugging up everywhere it could be posted, changed tons of subreddit rules to disallow it, and basically made it disappear. It was similar to what is happening now.

And a few anti-cop subs were closed down, and the only one left is the absolutely ridiculous and non-serious sounding /r/bad_cop_no_donut, which makes a mockery of the whole concept. Much like /r/conspiracy does of serious ideas of collusion between powerful people. It's by design, so people think they're having their say but they're relegated to having this ridiculous title to do so. I'm glad saidit allows us to break out of that.

And that was 2014. Now it's like 3 levels more blunt and ridiculous. There's basically no non-MSM perspectives on reddit anymore, even in the comments, unless you know where to look and how to sort. It's just obnoxious and I rarely learn anything from reddit anymore, which is the main reason why I use it.

[–]codywohlers 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

that's why that sub has such a stupid name

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yup. There was one called something more neutral like "PoliceMisconduct" or something, but it got banned or shut down if I remember. They basically forced it to happen.

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

Yep, that was the neutral one. Far better than BCND, we used to cop brigades from em constantly. Never from PM though, solid lil sub that was.

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

Well on saidit we have /s/PoliceMisconduct so feel free to fill it up!