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Reddit particularly used to be a free speech platform where anything could go and then used network effects to gain dominance. Now that they have dominance they

Reddit particularly used to be a free speech platform where anything could go and then used network effects to gain dominance. Now that they have dominance they now implement censorship of right wing views comments. This is true for Facebooks deboosting capabilities.

bradlys 6y ago
> Now that they have dominance they now implement censorship of right wing views comments. They did the same with chapo - so, it's really not just right wing views...
- raverbashing 6y ago
  Those platforms don't lack on identitarian division and push of extremist views There might be a slight point that those platforms end up being more of a right wing echo-chamber more than a left-wing one because of some factors. But the bias is on what's in there, not on the platform That being said, nothing was lost of value with the shutting down of T_D (ok, maybe it would be a prime source of information on manipulative state actors, but they can work on what they have already)
Daishiman 6y ago
I'm not seeing "school vouchers" or "individual responsibility", classical pillars of Conservative values, being censored. I am seeing a ton of censoring of racist and hateful comments, both openly so and dog whistles. So unless you're claiming that right-wing values are inherently racist or hateful...
- vanniv 6y ago
  You aren't seeing that content censored, because that content has been censored, and its posters vilified so completely, for so long, that it has disappeared. There are virtually zero republicans or conservatives on any social media site -- they know they aren't welcome, so they don't engage very much. You don't see them being censored because, at this point, they self-censor. Who wants to be doxxed and have their employer harassed into firing them just for trying to have a calm conversation with people who want to murder them anyway
  - kaens 6y ago
    i see them literally all the time. there's plenty in this thread. there's plenty on reddit. there's plenty on twitter. what are you talking about?
stu2b50 6y ago
The reddit administration honestly does very little active moderation. It's a shocker that they actually enforced their rules in the title. Almost all censorship is moderation. And that's "decentralized" and not part of the company itself. Honestly, Reddit would be better if they started laying down the law.
- skrowl 6y ago
  Reddit removed The_Donald from showing up in All, changed their search algorithm, and changed the number of active users showing up on T_D (they screwed up and you could see the true number on their ad buy portal). Those were all 100% admin actions to censor, not moderator actions.
  - stu2b50 6y ago
    And T_D should be banned years ago for blatant doxxing, brigading, and threats of violence, all clear violations of Reddit's rules. The admin has repeatedly been too scared to enforce their own rules, just doing half measures like that to pass the buck.
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bradlys 6y ago

> Now that they have dominance they now implement censorship of right wing views comments. They did the same with chapo - so, it's really not just right wing views...

raverbashing 6y ago
Those platforms don't lack on identitarian division and push of extremist views There might be a slight point that those platforms end up being more of a right wing echo-chamber more than a left-wing one because of some factors. But the bias is on what's in there, not on the platform That being said, nothing was lost of value with the shutting down of T_D (ok, maybe it would be a prime source of information on manipulative state actors, but they can work on what they have already)

Daishiman 6y ago

I'm not seeing "school vouchers" or "individual responsibility", classical pillars of Conservative values, being censored. I am seeing a ton of censoring of racist and hateful comments, both openly so and dog whistles. So unless you're claiming that right-wing values are inherently racist or hateful...

vanniv 6y ago
You aren't seeing that content censored, because that content has been censored, and its posters vilified so completely, for so long, that it has disappeared. There are virtually zero republicans or conservatives on any social media site -- they know they aren't welcome, so they don't engage very much. You don't see them being censored because, at this point, they self-censor. Who wants to be doxxed and have their employer harassed into firing them just for trying to have a calm conversation with people who want to murder them anyway
- kaens 6y ago
  i see them literally all the time. there's plenty in this thread. there's plenty on reddit. there's plenty on twitter. what are you talking about?

stu2b50 6y ago

The reddit administration honestly does very little active moderation. It's a shocker that they actually enforced their rules in the title. Almost all censorship is moderation. And that's "decentralized" and not part of the company itself. Honestly, Reddit would be better if they started laying down the law.

skrowl 6y ago
Reddit removed The_Donald from showing up in All, changed their search algorithm, and changed the number of active users showing up on T_D (they screwed up and you could see the true number on their ad buy portal). Those were all 100% admin actions to censor, not moderator actions.
- stu2b50 6y ago
  And T_D should be banned years ago for blatant doxxing, brigading, and threats of violence, all clear violations of Reddit's rules. The admin has repeatedly been too scared to enforce their own rules, just doing half measures like that to pass the buck.
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