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> the original core of the site was very left-leaning I don't remember it that way. I remember it being very libertarian (Ron Paul was the Bernie Sanders of 2
by commandlinefan 6y ago
> the original core of the site was very left-leaning
I don't remember it that way. I remember it being very libertarian (Ron Paul was the Bernie Sanders of 2000's reddit) for a very long time. I believed that the shift to a left-wing orientation was organic and representative of the general population UNTIL the whole T_D thing came along... T_D was doing the same thing, pulling the site to the right, until Reddit's owners worked overtime to make sure that didn't happen. That makes me suspect that the liberalism was also artificial.
- AlexandrB 6y agoI find it pretty funny that you're accusing reddit of being "artificially liberal" when it's actually organically liberal thanks to its demographics and history. The market has chosen, isn't that the libertarian way?
- bitwize 6y agoAaron Swartz was a huge Chomsky fan. Reddit leadership was always on the left.
- tnecniv 6y agoI'm not sure why you're being downvoted, perhaps over how people are defining core. In terms of the user base, I definitely remember early Reddit having a strong libertarian bent, or at least significant conflict between libertarians and more mainstream leftists. Things seemed to shift left roughly when the Digg influx happened.