The censorship on reddit is so fucked up now. There are a number of subreddits where certain word combinations are automatically and silently deleted. If you get past that hurdle, the mods will delete anything that goes against the narrative.
I just caught a ban in a thread about some random white guy saying something racist. I posted prominent, powerful, influential people saying the exact same thing about whites (because, if it's wrong to say "kill all jews" then it should be wrong to say "kill all whites") and they banned me.
...but, it took the mods two whole days, so a few people got to see my counterexample. In the future, the AI will ban me immediately.
And what's scary is that it creates this bubble where leftists have no fucking clue what the counterarguments are to their ideology.
Yup, it's like that already on various platforms, including YouTube.
Even simple phrases like,* "blacks commit more crimes per capita"* or "Natural selection requires heterosexuals for the human race to continue to exist, otherwise a majority of homosexuals will make humans go extinct" will get your comment auto-removed.
If you even go into any kind of details about how certain sciences work your comment will also be auto-removed (it's not that bad on Reddit... yet). I was trying to explain how certain preoptic functions work in connection with embryonic development and the comment just outright disappears (certain word combinations connected with embryos or fetuses the AI is especially sensitive toward, likely in connection with squashing any anti-abortion talking points).
They have essentially designed a system where dumb people will spout lies picked up from the mainstream establishment and anyone attempting to correct those lies will be shadow-banned. It really is the worst of both Brave New World and 1984 -- the overt and uninhibited hedonism from Brave New World with the Newspeak and Wrongthink policing from 1984.
Yeah... people don't realize how censored reddit is because it kind of appears like random free speech. The reality is there are several mechanisms to silence dissent. You can even run a whole sub where it appears that anyone (including you) can post/comment, but only the comments mods approve actually appear. Some websites are explicitly moderated like that, but reddit doesn't claim to be. Most of those websites will also tell you if your comments are approved or not. Reddit is very sneaky just to hide them.
The rate limiting thing is kind of like a ban. It slows down dissent while moderators get around to removing it.
The censorship on reddit is so fucked up now. There are a number of subreddits where certain word combinations are automatically and silently deleted. If you get past that hurdle, the mods will delete anything that goes against the narrative.
I just caught a ban in a thread about some random white guy saying something racist. I posted prominent, powerful, influential people saying the exact same thing about whites (because, if it's wrong to say "kill all jews" then it should be wrong to say "kill all whites") and they banned me.
...but, it took the mods two whole days, so a few people got to see my counterexample. In the future, the AI will ban me immediately.
And what's scary is that it creates this bubble where leftists have no fucking clue what the counterarguments are to their ideology.
Yup, it's like that already on various platforms, including YouTube.
Even simple phrases like,* "blacks commit more crimes per capita"* or "Natural selection requires heterosexuals for the human race to continue to exist, otherwise a majority of homosexuals will make humans go extinct" will get your comment auto-removed.
If you even go into any kind of details about how certain sciences work your comment will also be auto-removed (it's not that bad on Reddit... yet). I was trying to explain how certain preoptic functions work in connection with embryonic development and the comment just outright disappears (certain word combinations connected with embryos or fetuses the AI is especially sensitive toward, likely in connection with squashing any anti-abortion talking points).
They have essentially designed a system where dumb people will spout lies picked up from the mainstream establishment and anyone attempting to correct those lies will be shadow-banned. It really is the worst of both Brave New World and 1984 -- the overt and uninhibited hedonism from Brave New World with the Newspeak and Wrongthink policing from 1984.
Yeah... people don't realize how censored reddit is because it kind of appears like random free speech. The reality is there are several mechanisms to silence dissent. You can even run a whole sub where it appears that anyone (including you) can post/comment, but only the comments mods approve actually appear. Some websites are explicitly moderated like that, but reddit doesn't claim to be. Most of those websites will also tell you if your comments are approved or not. Reddit is very sneaky just to hide them.
The rate limiting thing is kind of like a ban. It slows down dissent while moderators get around to removing it.