You know what made reddit shitty? It wasn't the dev team (they were shitty too), it wasn't the website flaws, and it wasn't the banwave of censorship. It was the people. It was you guys.

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[–]EpiCabbage 52 insightful - 1 fun52 insightful - 0 fun53 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Pretty sure it was the censorship, sure there were a lot of idiots on reddit (ie the mainstream) but the fact that that was forced onto everyone non-mainstream was the issue. Companies shouldn't have a say in politics, given the corporations solely exist to make profit and will always side with the majority, amorally.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You make a number of good points.

Censorship prevents the free exchange of information that is necessary for making informed opinions and decisions.

Interest groups (corporations, states, investors, etc.) all align in every cooperate media outlet to suppress and censor the public's ability of learn the relevant factual inflation.

Factual information will often negatively impact the interests of those groups.

Controlling information controls:

  • The limits of debates and discussion.
  • Discussion of relevant ideas/details/historical factors that affect any given debated issue.
  • The number of potential solutions that can be considered for any given issue.

What we don't know can't hurt them, so we aren't allowed to know.

Profit is only one of the many benefits of the control of information/perception.

Profit is also a common scapegoat for actual malice (aka corporate "incompetence", etc.).

It's an easy excuse, and the media generally accepts that answer because it relieves powerful groups of moral accountability.

IMO: Blaming most problems on corporate greed is a classic example of how censorship controls public perception, and controls the limits of debate.