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This self-reported characterization of corporate manipulation seems suspect. If I get up here on HN and say "Gmail is a good service that works well and respect
by jeffbee 3y ago
This self-reported characterization of corporate manipulation seems suspect. If I get up here on HN and say "Gmail is a good service that works well and respects your privacy and security" 95% of you will accuse me of being a corporate shill, but it's just a vanilla opinion. Anyway, this author doesn't bother linking to the Pew study and searching for "The Pew Research Center study, conducted in 2018, delved into the experiences of 2,505 adult Americans who use Reddit" reveals nothing, so I can't be sure their description of the study is accurate, or that it even exists. I'm certainly not going to sign up to read this members-only post, the free part of which is almost worthless.
- joemi 3y agoI fully agree that the self-reporting in this (alleged?) study is suspect. I've been accused of being a corporate shill many times on reddit just for voicing an opinion contrary (or even just partially contrary) to the bulk of the thread. This seems to be a lot of people's favorite way of dismissing dissenting opinions (accusing dissenters of being trolls is still a close second, though), and it's likely that it makes other people believe it's actually true when a few people start accusing dissent of being corporately motivated in that way. It's such a common occurrence that I refuse to comment in most larger subreddits. Smaller subreddits are much more reasonable, in my experience.