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by sdoering
1583 days ago
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> Reddit's censorship has gotten so bad I think it's a real societal risk considering how prevalent it is. How is reddit anyhow relevant to society. And how would a corporation cleaning/sterilizing an online forum be a societal risk. Is society that fragile? And how can it be censorship? At least in my jurisdiction protection against censorship and free speech laws regulate the state's behavior, not private people or corporations. Not sure how this is in the US, though. I just don't understand why people calling the behavior of private entities censorship. But as said, I very likely are missing something fundamental. |
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A large portion of the population do not go to specific news sites directly but instead rely on a link aggregator, Reddit being the most popular in the world (I believe).
If a political entity were to gain significant control of the censorship mechanisms, you would have a massive societal risk IMO. I have been following the censorship problem on Reddit for a while now and I think this has now become the case.
I can't say which entities are operating here, but it seems resoundingly clear something very inorganic is happening in Reddit's systems.