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maybe this is odd but i just have to ask, do you consider reddit usage to be the sign of a civilized democracy?
by stainablesteel 1y ago
maybe this is odd but i just have to ask, do you consider reddit usage to be the sign of a civilized democracy?
- skirge 1y agoreddit makes no harm, thus there is no reason to block it.
- skinnymuch 1y agoReddit is a western American site while western hegemony exists. There’s always a reason for the global south to block western sites/companies
- qwerty456127 1y agoSure - the reason is the want more control over their people, they want to surveil them (hence blocking Signal), they want them to only read or express "correct" texts and prevent them from participating in open loosely-moderated discussions (hence blocking Reddit).
- int_19h 1y agoWouldn't want comrades to get cooties from reading icky things?
- qwerty456127 1y agoI consider banning it uncharacteristic to such. I can hardly consider a state where people are not allowed to access Reddit (as well as HN, Wikipedia or StackExchange) freely and anonymously a healthy civilized democracy. It can still be a very civilized society in general but tightening control on the people like this indicates the government is going slippery slope.
- skinnymuch 1y agoI’d think it doesn’t specifically mean anything for civilized or democracy or slippery slope to block a bunch of western sites.
- qwerty456127 1y agoThe grammar is our enemy here. Blocking a website may be Okay. Blocking a person willing to access it is not.
- newyankee 1y agoMany national subreddits are taken over by power hungry mods who now have behind the scene help from nation-states. Despite ample evidence and other subreddits highlighting consistent systemic biases there is no way to remove mods or change policies. I understand it is difficult to make it completely unbiased as subjectivity and a lot of other factors will influence what counts are right or wrong in that scenario, and mods are not even paid either. But then this always made it ripe for influence from other areas as a part of information warfare and here we are with the outcome
- AdrianB1 1y agoReddit, civilized and democracy are not strongly correlated. Free speech and civilized, they are.