Skylab
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Skylab
Beware of he who would deny you access to information...
2yr ago
What, if any pressure, has the current Whitehouse applied to Reddit, in regards to censorship?
Since it has recently been revealed that the Whitehouse pressures Facebook (and the FBI pressures FB as well), Twitter, Youtube into censoring American citizens, I wonder if similar pressure has been applied to Reddit.
Link is in the title. I should acknowledge my bias that I am a staunch pureblood antivaxxer(unexperimentally jabbed person who strongly disagreees with MRNA mandates.) I have taken Ivermectin for Covid. My significant other is fully up to date on jabs, having gotten the mouse jab just earlier today. We did have an argument, but as civilized persons, we don't believe in mandates.
That said, all things being equal, I trust doctors providing treatment on the ground more than corporate funded RCT's. Also, I tend to believe the opposite of whatever current centralized power is pushing as a message and that has served me well as a truth seeking mechanic in the past 3 years. So I agree with Alexandros and personally believe that Scott Alexander's blog on Ivermectin was sloppy at best, and cowardly at worst.
Skylab
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2yr ago
I think MSNBC viewers might have a strong class action lawsuit for brain damage caused by weapons grade military propaganda.
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2yr ago
I love the sweet sweet juicy gossip of how horrible my censorious outgroup is.
Skylab
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2yr ago
Yes. Censors are my eternal outgroup.
Skylab
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2yr ago
But presumably, Zorba wouldn't lie to us. And there was ongoing censorship in other threads. Until I see strong evidence otherwise, I am going to assume it was the Stazi.
Skylab
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2yr ago
Thank you. My entire lifetime, teachers warned me that we must always be on the look out for anyone infringing on free speech or authoritarians censoring us and that they ALWAYS try to start small and then move on to bigger issues.
Then one day I woke up and half of my fellow countrymen were pro-censorship. I am still confused by this.
Skylab
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2yr ago
And a Reddit Admin got involved and deleted the comment?
Because that sounds kinda outgroupy to me.
Skylab
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2yr ago
We're going through a similar process now. Reddit has become increasingly hostile - we just had a comment removed for discussing the meaning of various types of parenthesis, I'm not making that up, I'm not exaggerating, that's a thing that happened - and if the community is to survive, we need to disengage from Reddit.
I have done a cursory search on both reddit and here but I cannot find the juicy gossip. I really absolutely have to know the specifics of this incident. Yes it is salacious gossip. Yes it is an utterly irrational guilty pleasure. But please please please can someone spill the beans on exactly what went down.?
And please, just this once, can we ignore the usual motte precepts and fully and shamelessly engage in friend/enemy distinctions? Can we embrace sarcasm and mockery just this once? Can we be a little uncharitable to our censorious enemies? Can we pretend that they will never read this because they probably won't?
Please I would love someone to leak all the intimate details of the parenthetical comment being deleted while I engage in apelike disdain of my outgroup.
Thank you in advance, and please forgive me this one time for bucking the very pillars upon which the Motte rests.
I thought this was the culture war thread where we can say whatever we want whenever we want?
https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/white-house-big-tech-colluded-to-censor-misinformation-lawsuit/
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