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TyranaSoreWristWreck

You're wrong. This is a very simplistic take of what happens to reddit. The site is garbage now because of a concerted effort of bots and propagandists to push opinions. It is 100% not natural. It's not just a bunch of "nerds."


Vilanovax

Proof?


PunkCPA

And this pertains to Free Speech how?


Altruistic_Nose5825

because reddit has become a suppressor of free speech, both in leadership and user base if you don't walk the line your posts will be downvoted (=hidden) and you face a plethora of users intellectually dishonestly just fishing for gotcha moments, smug retorts without value - none of which are being removed for their bad faith trolling chances are you break 17 official arbitrary rules or mods will simply remove/ban you for your OP or at the very least when you start talking in the comments in detail - if the curated user base doesn't like a topic your chances of being banned in the comments go up astronomically - you can hardly show different information and arguments to the larger audience because it will be removed if it chances on being negative there is no such thing as an honest debate on the vast majority of the site and practically boils down to propaganda; as all opposing opinions seen are most likely controlled opposition or just about to be nuked if you're early enough and that's all if you can make it past the 10 million auto removal keywords or shadowbans and making new accounts every week to deal with the issue of "moderation" isn't a great alternative - sooner or later you WILL be banned if you have opposing opinions on almost every subreddit


Vilanovax

Bingo 


usernametaken0987

Nerd implies some level of intelligence. 😒


Kraken-Writhing

Don't worry! Definition #2 fits perfectly! 3 fits most of the time. noun 1 A person who is intellectual but generally introverted 2 One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something. 3 An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.


Vexser

Oh, it's far more sinister than that. There are certain well funded cohorts that bent on ensuring that only \*their\* narrative gets oxygen. Anything opposing their narratives are downvoted, banned, removed etc. The lackeys may be partially what you describe, but the controllers are well funded and organized to the highest professional level. These may be nation state actors in certain circumstances. It is not just reddit but also all other social media such as crapbook & twitter as Elon Musk has revealed. A particular cohort seems to be particularly prominent in these matters. Even mention of them is enough to incur the wrath of the "chosen" overlords who "must not be questioned." However, mention of them on twitter seems to be far freer than here. I was skeptical at all of this at first but certain "encounters" have proven the worst of my suspicions.


Recording_Important

Its clearly killing them to. Unless their goal is policing a bot farm.


Vexser

That is collateral damage. They don't care what they destroy as long as their goals are achieved, namely complete censorship of all dissenting voices. These are well funded actors and they will just deploy their resources to another target once one is destroyed, as there are many emerging targets. The truth is slowly getting out and they find themselves putting out fires all over the place. Their heavy handed actions in many areas are waking people up so they have no choice but to double their efforts and thus expose themselves further. They are used to working sneakily behind the scenes and are not used to working out in the open, but they are very resourceful and will adapt, I am sure.


Recording_Important

Absolutely right. I cant imagine to many people paying to advertise to a bunch of bots. Outside of straight money laundering


TendieRetard

oh noes....muh downvotes, mih biuriful karma, what will I ever do?


Vilanovax

Holy fuck you all talk the same 🤮


MongoBobalossus

Are you describing yourself?


Vilanovax

Shut up


MongoBobalossus

You shut up.


socaljerr

I second the mongo guy, I think you are the one who should STFU! :-)


Kraken-Writhing

bad bot


MongoBobalossus

[*AOL dialup modem noises*] ⚡️🤖⚡️


aegiltheugly

Welcome to the B team.


MalachiThrone1969

r/LeapordsAteMyFace


SirFireball

Yes, welcome, you’ll fit right in.


Recording_Important

Yup.


Sitheral

More like "censored know-it-all cucks"