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> I actually ended up having these on reddit I am actually quite surprised how complicit the media is in not reporting what goes on Reddit. It's the one plac
by tenpies 7y ago
> I actually ended up having these on reddit
I am actually quite surprised how complicit the media is in not reporting what goes on Reddit. It's the one place on the "mainstream" internet I run into where you can see calls for political assassinations in default subs, sub-reddits devoted to theft, ethno-nationalism, terrorism, and all sorts of content that makes 4chan seem tame in comparison.
Then there is the huge cross-polination of moderators with radical ideas, who just happen to moderate radical sub-reddits and some prominent default/mainstream sub-reddits.
If advertisers only paid attention. If journalists only cared.
- ViViDboarder 7y agoIf reported, Reddit (the company) will usually moderate or shut down subs like those. Recent example being what they just did with /r/T_D.
- anigbrowl 7y agoTrue, but it's a lot of work with no reward for the reporters.
- hutzlibu 7y agoHow much work is it? You don't just click "report"? Or send a screenshot of such a forum? (I do not know) And what kind of reward do you expect?
- anigbrowl 7y agoI'm talking about the work to investigate and monitor a forum, gather evidence, and recruit a crowd of people to report it with. I don't know how responsive Reddit is at evaluating any individual report, i don't spend a lot of time on that platform.
- collyw 7y agoI get the impression that Reddit only shuts down right wing leaning Reddits. I hear that there is plenty of calls for violence on left leaning ones such as late stage capitalism.
- pwinnski 7y agoThis is false, and perpetuating this falsehood without any direct knowledge ("I hear...") is shameful and unhelpful.
- manfredo 7y agoIts not false. I see plenty of calls to violence from the left on reddit. Some of it is overt, like calling for summary execution of conservatives and religious officials in the same vein as in many communist revolts. Much of the time it's slightly more subtle, like calling for violence against "Nazis" while simultaneously calling large segments of their political opponents "Nazis". Just browse a left leaning subreddit like LateStageCapitalism or even just /r/politics and you'll see calls to violence from the left.
- HappyDreamer 7y agoI actually now went to LateStageCapitalism and spent 10? 15? minutes reading topics and comment. I found nothing of the things you mention. (But it was interesting to go there and read.)
- manfredo 7y agoIt looks like two weeks ago they added a sticky post telling users to stop making calls to violence: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx/reminder_report_all_posts_and_comments_that?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/cfs3dx... I guess Reddit finally told them to clean up their act. This sticky was definitely needed. I've seen among other things, a commenter telling people whose family was killed by the Castro regime that their family deserved to be killed, and others calling for the summary killing of anyone in the top 1% of income. Look at some of the highest upvoted posts of the year: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar/capitalism_will_kill_you?sort=confidence https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/9lhjar... Lots of deleted comments. Several root level comments with hundreds of upvotes. LSC cleaning up it's act is pretty recent.
- erichurkman 7y agoIt took them _years_ to touch r/t_d despite many reports to the admins about abusive behavior running rampant. In true Reddit form, they only did something after the mainstream forced them to react. (Same problem they had with other questionable groups, like r/shoplifting, got banned after media attention.)
- topologistics 7y agoReddit is an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications. They are a large part of what is commonly referred to as "the media." Just sayin.
- avarun 7y agoConde Nast sold the company back to the founders years ago. Reddit is now once again a VC-backed "startup".
- dredmorbius 7y agoAdvance Publications, a Conde Nast umbrella, are majority shareholders: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit https://www.advance.com https://www.advance.com
- anigbrowl 7y agoJournalists do care but it's hard to get those stories the attention they deserve. To the general public a lot of these discussions seem like a tempest in a teacup, much as many people dismissed climate change and other problematic issues because they seemed too abstract.