Yeah and fucking secret cleared civil servants are modding for tencent on AND off the clock (in their unionized federal jobs) ..
Talk about foreign fucking influence. The NDHQ psyops stuff going public has been in operation for years. This is a big fucking deal!
spez: I have personally verified /r/CAF and /r/ott. rCan we all have suspicions, Toronto? who the fuck knows. Montreal is just as bad, Cal, Van all of them could be feds.
Well if you want to jump back in the time masheen you could at least stop and point out how T_D was a /pol/ FOB/beachhead on reddit that grew too large and gained enough mass/momentum that it became unstoppable and killed the last bastion of free speech(tm) and board of peace(r) via reverse-immigration overload.
The MDE-niggers and Sam Hyde worshipping true believers are a great example, the more enlightened offshoot has now landed at ConsumeProduct actually and the influence is heavily felt there ...
And that was something that the lilhats threw MILLIONS of shekels at, for over a decade! And like everyone else lol but still.
Fuck that's a good read.
As Conde Nast, in a magazine that they own which hasn't been prominent since I was a kid try to explain in their own words about their censorship wave and put forth their very flimsy reasoning about why they'd banned the_donald and why they've been cracking down on anything interesting on that site.
The best part about it is how they unwittingly makes the_donald seem like it was fun back in the day and one of the few interesting things that was going on at the site during that time. Even worse, they talk about them expressing anti-muslim feelings in the wake of terrorist attacks and them warning people of what significant muslim immigration would do to womens' and gays' rights which is something that reddit as a whole seemed to really agree with at the time.
It's truly amazing how out-of-touch the ownership and management are with the site and its users. They really have no idea.
The best thing about the article, and I mean the best is how they mention that after banning r/fatpeoplehate they noticed that the majority of people cleaned up their speech on the site and used that as a rationale for further bannings; without considering for a second that people don't like censoring themselves and they don't like participating in a community forces them to have to censor themselves.
I actually wonder how long reddit is going to even exist at this point. There was very little o/c and a ton of karma-reposts before the pandemic even hit and they reacted to the pandemic with a lot of censorship in favour of China, who everyone knew owned a stake in the company and that goes double for Hong Kong.
The community became increasingly bitter as the pandemic wore on as well. The site that was known for the world's largest secret Santa event spent a lot of the pandemic being dicks to each other and that got worse after the 2,000+ subreddit pre-election banwave. One would have never expected reddit to behave that way in the days of r/fatpeoplehate, I'll say that much.
It's truly amazing how they've managed to fuck up that site. I have to wonder what kind of drop-off would even convince Conde Nast to put forth such an article. I'd have been sure that in an ideal situation they'd hope that no one noticed the mass censorship and subreddit bans.
The mere fact that it's being mentioned means things are going badly. Great article!
They didn't even need to control them.
If you want to take some heinous examples, look at something like /r/greatapes or even r/jailbait.
They existed, and everyone knew the existed but sane people didn't subscribe to those subs and they didn't give a fuck what went on in a collection of racists, or even pedos.
They took comfort in the fact that those subs existed, which meant that all of the users at least had a space to express themselves, which meant that they themselves, as normal people were free to express themselves as well.
That level of free expression led to creativity that was only dwarfed by the renaissance.
Even when you look at something like the_donald you have to ask, how much art came from that subreddit? Would one consider someone like Carpedonktum to be an internationally acclaimed artist? I'd say that more people have seen his memes than have seen the Mona Lisa in-person.
It's just sad how Conde Nast never understood reddit and fucked it up.
A 100+ year-old media company that bought a user-base and never understood it.
They were bullshit lucky when it came to the Reddit deal and all they really needed to do was stay hands-off then sell the cunt at the right time.
They fucked that up in a manner that I would consider to be spectacular. Dumbasses.
Yeah and fucking secret cleared civil servants are modding for tencent on AND off the clock (in their unionized federal jobs) ..
Talk about foreign fucking influence. The NDHQ psyops stuff going public has been in operation for years. This is a big fucking deal!
spez: I have personally verified /r/CAF and /r/ott. rCan we all have suspicions, Toronto? who the fuck knows. Montreal is just as bad, Cal, Van all of them could be feds.
Calm down with the anti-semetic questions, bro.
Well if you want to jump back in the time masheen you could at least stop and point out how T_D was a /pol/ FOB/beachhead on reddit that grew too large and gained enough mass/momentum that it became unstoppable and killed the last bastion of free speech(tm) and board of peace(r) via reverse-immigration overload.
The MDE-niggers and Sam Hyde worshipping true believers are a great example, the more enlightened offshoot has now landed at ConsumeProduct actually and the influence is heavily felt there ...
And that was something that the lilhats threw MILLIONS of shekels at, for over a decade! And like everyone else lol but still.
ALL INTERNET CULTURE IS DOWNSTREAM OF THE CHANS!
THE MOAR YOU KNOW!
I read part of this article when it was published. Utter trash. Notice how wired allows comments on most articles but not this one.
lol hate fueled, pro cop, pro military, pro Israel. So much hate!
Fuck that's a good read.
As Conde Nast, in a magazine that they own which hasn't been prominent since I was a kid try to explain in their own words about their censorship wave and put forth their very flimsy reasoning about why they'd banned the_donald and why they've been cracking down on anything interesting on that site.
The best part about it is how they unwittingly makes the_donald seem like it was fun back in the day and one of the few interesting things that was going on at the site during that time. Even worse, they talk about them expressing anti-muslim feelings in the wake of terrorist attacks and them warning people of what significant muslim immigration would do to womens' and gays' rights which is something that reddit as a whole seemed to really agree with at the time.
It's truly amazing how out-of-touch the ownership and management are with the site and its users. They really have no idea.
The best thing about the article, and I mean the best is how they mention that after banning r/fatpeoplehate they noticed that the majority of people cleaned up their speech on the site and used that as a rationale for further bannings; without considering for a second that people don't like censoring themselves and they don't like participating in a community forces them to have to censor themselves.
I actually wonder how long reddit is going to even exist at this point. There was very little o/c and a ton of karma-reposts before the pandemic even hit and they reacted to the pandemic with a lot of censorship in favour of China, who everyone knew owned a stake in the company and that goes double for Hong Kong.
The community became increasingly bitter as the pandemic wore on as well. The site that was known for the world's largest secret Santa event spent a lot of the pandemic being dicks to each other and that got worse after the 2,000+ subreddit pre-election banwave. One would have never expected reddit to behave that way in the days of r/fatpeoplehate, I'll say that much.
It's truly amazing how they've managed to fuck up that site. I have to wonder what kind of drop-off would even convince Conde Nast to put forth such an article. I'd have been sure that in an ideal situation they'd hope that no one noticed the mass censorship and subreddit bans.
The mere fact that it's being mentioned means things are going badly. Great article!
They didn't even need to control them.
If you want to take some heinous examples, look at something like /r/greatapes or even r/jailbait.
They existed, and everyone knew the existed but sane people didn't subscribe to those subs and they didn't give a fuck what went on in a collection of racists, or even pedos.
They took comfort in the fact that those subs existed, which meant that all of the users at least had a space to express themselves, which meant that they themselves, as normal people were free to express themselves as well.
That level of free expression led to creativity that was only dwarfed by the renaissance.
Even when you look at something like the_donald you have to ask, how much art came from that subreddit? Would one consider someone like Carpedonktum to be an internationally acclaimed artist? I'd say that more people have seen his memes than have seen the Mona Lisa in-person.
It's just sad how Conde Nast never understood reddit and fucked it up.
A 100+ year-old media company that bought a user-base and never understood it.
They were bullshit lucky when it came to the Reddit deal and all they really needed to do was stay hands-off then sell the cunt at the right time.
They fucked that up in a manner that I would consider to be spectacular. Dumbasses.
quarantining the sub ruined it though