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‘Redditors' Reportedly Leaving Site Over Free Speech Concerns
- Terr_ 12y agoSpeaking as one of the crowd of Redditors, I find it strange that I'm first hearing about this crisis of "censorship" from a site owned and operated by the government of Russia! [0][1] Regardless of what's occurring to Reddit, I think they have some strong ulterior-motives for deflecting criticism and downplaying their own censorship and media-control tactics. [0]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/sputnik-news-agency-what-russias-new-website-thinks-of-the-world http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/12/sputnik-news-ag... [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(news_agency) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(news_agency)
- doctorshady 12y agoNormally I'd agree with you, but it seems like this is based off of a piece the Washington Post did. They have their own biases too, but I don't think they're particularly anti-Reddit or pro-censorship.
- esquimaux 12y agoThe author doesn't seem to really understand Reddit at all, and this is coming from a non-"redditor". There will always be drama and internal politics in communities of decent size, I don't think this is any different. They main point they didn't address: How many people are churning? It could be negligible, which makes this a non-story.
- mtmail 12y agoIt read like a planted piece to promote voat.co to me, see recent submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9020855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9020855, but even the folks at voat.co seem to hate article https://voat.co/v/news/comments/53299 https://voat.co/v/news/comments/53299
- anonbanker 12y agoI left reddit years ago due to being censored. HN today (at it's worst) is still light years better than reddit three years ago.