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by sage_joch 4609 days ago
If I scroll the Reddit frontpage (without being logged in), I am not seeing any NSA stories, despite being on the top of /r/WorldNews, /r/news, etc. Anyone know the story behind that?
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thisiswrong 4609 days ago
Reddit has been compromised. Just look at what happened on r/worldnews with the u/douglasmacarther and the RT censorship thing, or how the NSA-Israel Memorandum submissions were purposely 'buried'

http://rt.com/news/rt-reddit-ban-censorship-169/

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signed0 4609 days ago
It's currently at #10 on the frontpage. http://imgur.com/ZuIUSGl.png
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generj 4609 days ago
And it's now at the #1 spot.

http://i.imgur.com/ljVc1ga.png

Sometimes news takes awhile to reach the front page.

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krelian 4609 days ago
It's a conspiracy of course to try and hide this information from the public. That's the answer you were looking for, right?
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brymaster 4609 days ago
Here, I did your own research for you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...

> Most addicted city (over 100k visits total) > Eglin Air Force Base, FL

http://blog.reddit.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-m...

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helpfulElf 4609 days ago
You joke but if you don't think subtle censorship tools have already been deployed you're mad.
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lazugod 4609 days ago
/r/worldnews is no longer a default sub, so none of its posts appear on logged-out frontpage anyways.
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lazugod 4609 days ago
The posters above apparently show me to be wrong, so I guess /r/worldnews is still a default.
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