[mioasndo]

> There’s a large (the vast majority), who think what is happening to Assange is a travesty.

Not sure that's true, go to reddit for example, and you'll see the majority are already brainwashed into thinking Assange is a Russian asset. US mainstream media is working on it overtime.

[freeflight]

And Reddit is usually on the more "enlightened" end on such topics, at least used to be.

Ask some random person on the street about Assange and the best they can come up with is probably something about fleeing from the Swedish police for rape, something Russian agent, maybe something about how he treats his cat horribly or doesn't clean his toilet properly.

The Five Eyed propaganda machine [0] was very effective in smearing him, and even Snowden, among the general public in these past years.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

[lettergram]

I’ve watched Reddit devolve into mostly bots with shills these days...

First they banned many communities and users who was right leaning or even moderate in the past two years.

Then you just have an echo chamber plus propaganda and bots are everywhere.

Finally, Reddit is the whole world, not the US. Many of the US specific boards were more right leaning and have been banned.

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

"Right leaning", really? Or far-right extremists who conspire to support or defend attempts of coup d'état?

[raxxorrax]

The Viking really seems to have caused some traumata.

If that is your excuse to compromise on freedom of expression, than you don't support it in the first place. Just be honest with it then.

[leereeves]

Have you completely forgotten 2020? After a year in which forcefully occupying government buildings was regarded as legitimate protest; a year with over 500 riots, for which arrested rioters were generally not prosecuted; Democrats have no credibility when they complain about the right occupying one government building.

What you've done there is pure partisanship: defining "the other side" by the worst among them while ignoring the behavior of the worst among your own side.

[baud147258]

most were already banned at this point

[l332mn]

Reddit is definitely not the whole world. It's heavily dominated by people from the US and western europe, and heavily biased towards the the mainstream western propaganda narrative. Reddit is an active target for propagandists (i.e. intelligence communities). Votes and recommendations for news articles are not at all based purely on interest and activity, it's being pushed by actors with various agendas.