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Does anyone else feel like this is extremely suspicious (classic misdirection) given the negativity surrounding the moderation of Snowden's latest leak?

by pxlpshr 13y ago

bfish510 13y ago
A decision like this isn't made over night.
- Crito 13y ago
  Presumably they were not blindsided by these 'revelations' overnight either.
untog 13y ago
Are you serious? Of course it isn't. Not everything is a conspiracy theory, you know. That was to to do with the moderators of /r/news and nothing to do with Reddit itself.
- pxlpshr 13y ago
  I'm willing to believe both sides of the coin now. Traditionally, I'm not a tin foil hat kinda guy. I proposed a question that I thought was worth discussing considering the leaked presentation which highlights the psychological theater orchestrated by our government on a regular basis. Admittedly, I'm not nose-deep in all of the Snowden/Reddit drama either.
- MisterWebz 13y ago
  A company is trying to get some good press after a lot of bad press. Must be some kind of conspiracy theory, right?
  - Crito 13y ago
    If I haven't already read about it in the newspaper, then it must be a loony conspiracy theory. /s
hemabe 13y ago
Let's see what happens, if donations for Edward Snowden are ranked #1 at the end of the year... :)
- Dan_Nguyen 13y ago
  Not sure if you're joking (I can be tone deaf with text comments), but that's never going to happen. Reddit specifically stated they're only going to open suggestions for 501(c)(3) organizations. Besides, even if they didn't, it'd be hard getting money from an American company into the hands of someone actively being pursued by the American government.
Dan_Nguyen 13y ago
I don't at all. 1. The moderation is very recent news, and something like this isn't banged out in 24 hours. Likely this has been in the works for a while, before news broke of the Snowden moderation. 2. The mods on subreddits like r/news are different people from the admins of Reddit. Obvious bias within the subreddits, but I have little reason to believe that it's a site-wide conspiracy from the admins rather than controversial decision making from subreddit mods.
redthrowaway 13y ago
No.
winslow 13y ago
Can someone possibly fill me in on what the latest leak is and why Reddit (Conde Nast) would be involved? The latest leak I've found is the webcam spying that GCHQ has been doing. Edit: Looks like possibly this story related to the r/news subreddit and not necessarily reddit in general? [1] [1] - http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/reddit-censoring-greenwald/ http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/reddit-censoring-greenwald/

Does anyone else feel like this is extremely suspicious (classic misdirection) given the negativity surrounding the moderation of Snowden's latest leak?

by pxlpshr 13y ago

Does anyone else feel like this is extremely suspicious (classic misdirection) given the negativity surrounding the moderation of Snowden's latest leak?

bfish510 13y ago

A decision like this isn't made over night.

Crito 13y ago
Presumably they were not blindsided by these 'revelations' overnight either.

untog 13y ago

Are you serious? Of course it isn't. Not everything is a conspiracy theory, you know. That was to to do with the moderators of /r/news and nothing to do with Reddit itself.

pxlpshr 13y ago
I'm willing to believe both sides of the coin now. Traditionally, I'm not a tin foil hat kinda guy. I proposed a question that I thought was worth discussing considering the leaked presentation which highlights the psychological theater orchestrated by our government on a regular basis. Admittedly, I'm not nose-deep in all of the Snowden/Reddit drama either.
MisterWebz 13y ago
A company is trying to get some good press after a lot of bad press. Must be some kind of conspiracy theory, right?
- Crito 13y ago
  If I haven't already read about it in the newspaper, then it must be a loony conspiracy theory. /s

hemabe 13y ago

Let's see what happens, if donations for Edward Snowden are ranked #1 at the end of the year... :)

Dan_Nguyen 13y ago
Not sure if you're joking (I can be tone deaf with text comments), but that's never going to happen. Reddit specifically stated they're only going to open suggestions for 501(c)(3) organizations. Besides, even if they didn't, it'd be hard getting money from an American company into the hands of someone actively being pursued by the American government.

Dan_Nguyen 13y ago

I don't at all. 1. The moderation is very recent news, and something like this isn't banged out in 24 hours. Likely this has been in the works for a while, before news broke of the Snowden moderation. 2. The mods on subreddits like r/news are different people from the admins of Reddit. Obvious bias within the subreddits, but I have little reason to believe that it's a site-wide conspiracy from the admins rather than controversial decision making from subreddit mods.

redthrowaway 13y ago

No.

winslow 13y ago

Can someone possibly fill me in on what the latest leak is and why Reddit (Conde Nast) would be involved? The latest leak I've found is the webcam spying that GCHQ has been doing. Edit: Looks like possibly this story related to the r/news subreddit and not necessarily reddit in general? [1] [1] - http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/reddit-censoring-greenwald/ http://mashable.com/2014/02/27/reddit-censoring-greenwald/