well well well

literally just happened. was on a thread talking about a Romani teenage girl who was attacked by the ukrainian military and when i tried to sort the comments different the board was suddenly quarantined.

    • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      What do you expect from the same people who say "-940952349503252 social credit" yet can't buy a house because they pay all their cards on time.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      no this is fine because the Free Market™ is censoring information, and not the Government 🤢🤮🤢🤮

      • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        it's actually the CIA https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If you ask libs what "free speech" means, they will almost always say it's unfettered right to criticize the government, that's what separates us from those evil gommunist countries. What they don't get is we only have the "free speech" we do because it's not really a threat to capital at the moment. And to extent that it is a threat, MSM and tech companies do a fine job of squashing what power wants squashed. If speech becomes too dangerous and if the private sector can't contain say emerging class consciousness, then the government will step and abandon free speech to the degree that libs only dream goes on in places like China.

        • chicken_pizza [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          the criticism of government is such a fucking spook lol

          like, the biden boy won't keel over because you called him a senile old grandpa

          it's just to keep the populace complacent

    • 2danky4me [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Well you see, Reddit is owned by China so that's why they did this -Average redditor

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    So basically this is going to be it for the future of western internet, anything that goes against state department propaganda will be censored. We're seeing it play out in real time on twitter, reddit, etc. I can only hope dual structures will be built as a life raft for people escaping this.

  • Parenti [comrade/them,any]
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    3 years ago

    The centralization of the Internet and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity

    :a-guy:

    • DashEightMate [any]
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      3 years ago

      Exactly why stuff like this, niche forums, irc servers are so fn cool. Almost feels like a rebellion against social media tech conglomerates

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    The precedent has been solidified, over time the censorship will extend to more and more leftist subs, even socdems won't be safe in the long run when the focus shifts back to domestic politics and anyone who isn't a never-Trumper republican or a DNC loyalist consumer starts to question MSM excuse narratives on the inevitable defeat of the Democrats during midterms, BLM, climate activism, drug legalization, etc. all of it will be subsumed under the label of RUSSIA from now on

    Brace yourselves, anyone not parroting the official line of corporate DC access media will be labeled a Russian bot and censored accordingly, we're in new territory now and this time those freeze dried peaches really are being confiscated

    Found this great comment on the r/ShitLiberalsSay sub reacting to the news

    • chicken_pizza [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      nah i think the actual chuds will be allowed to stay as long as they wrap their vile shit in vague aesthetics

  • flowernet [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I like how Reddit has no default quarantine message, so every sub you see the current brainworms. "High volume of information not supported by credible sources almost reads like a complement.

    since this made me think about quarantines again. imaged the shitstorm if they quarantined Ukraine right now, because that sub violates every criteria: Racism, harassment, calls for violence, violent content. not subtly either, mods are stickying stuff about chechen orcs and and endorsing Azov videos.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      racism, harassment, calls for violence, violent content. not subtly either, mods are stickying stuff about chechen orcs and and endorsing Azov videos.

      oh my god, i just thought it was lib-infused "zelensky is avengers" type posts :jesus-christ:

  • Mizokon [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    :sadness-abysmal: it was inevitable ig.

    I was there when FULLCOMMUNISM was quarantined :chomsky-yes-honey:

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    A group of powerful, if sectarian and misguided, posters lost to the whims of the ever increasing censorship of the "free world." :sankara-salute: Hope the good ones find their way here, and learn that the "anarchists" they hate are the same breed as the dem socs they dunk on but principled, committed anarchists are comrades through and through, and that ironically stanning Assad and Putin morphing into unironic stanning of right-wing capitalist despots just because they oppose American imperialism is real Not Good.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      morphing

      :doubt:

      "what even is critical support, and why does it not apply whenever the joke isn't funny to me?"

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I guess some of it was always unironic, but I like to think the original intent of those memes was ironic because they are legit funny. The "Assad must go" meme is an OG.

    • Abraman [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Some dude on there (4 hour old account btw) called me a NATO shill and a concern troll for saying there were too many "omg putin BASED???" posts

    • American_Communist22 [she/her,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I've actually seen many a post on there that they support IRL anarchists who made an impact, and that the real problem is the ones on reddit. Thinking about it, their sectarianism makes a lot of sense, due to most "anarchists" and other communists would be just western libs, so they had to go full defense mode, resulting in the current sectarianism.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Despite some big things, I liked the place. A lot of good posters.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      mentioning the employment history of their director of content policy will get you banned for harassment

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean we already know how the CIA controls Reddit, me and the user @Civility (I think) have both made posts about it.

      I'll try find mine now.

      Found it

      https://hexbear.net/post/3114

    • UlyssesT
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      2 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      That Atlantic Council lady with no digital media experience ending up as director of policy proved that quite handily

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Contains a high volume of information not supported by credible sources.

    What was wrong with the old fig leaf of "calls for violence" or "shocking content" or whatever like what they did for FullCommunism or the old cth sub? It's not even an attempt to hide, this basically says don't go against the western narrative - it's just shy of explicitly saying that. I think they easily could've stuck to the old fig leaf what the fuck is the deal with that, like there was plenty of gzd posters happy about the reddit legion getting missiled.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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      3 years ago

      What was wrong with the old fig leaf of “calls for violence” or “shocking content”

      They can't ban GZD for violence while VolunteersForUkraine is literally mobilizing international brigades. They can't ban GZD for posting shocking content because posting shocking videos of Russian atrocities is a key part of the war propaganda.

      So they do it for some nickel and dime bullshit.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      i'm actually shocked it took the people in charge this long to ban it. I think the current crisis with ukraine made them pay attention. They probably were under the impression that they had scrubbed the site of undesirables until a new crisis emerged.

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Took a look at /r/subredditdrama

    Neoliberalism is winning the information war (if you want to call it that)

    :sadness-abysmal:

  • RION [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    What is there even left over there (reddit)? Shitliberalssay?

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      COMPLETEANARCHY apparently is the largest now lmao, what a shitshow

      • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I once got banned there for "antisemitism" because I pointed out that a poster was probably dogwhistling.

        In their defence, it was downvoted -200, even people here thought it was sussy, and they did eventually undo the ban.

      • RION [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The last time I went there it was full of vaushites

        • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          It's nowhere near as bad as syndiesunited. I literally got downvoted for pointing out that the IWW was gutted for being communist they literally fought against the soviets

          In that thread, one guy said "Fuck you vaush is based" in response to being told he was a cryptofash pedophile. Yeah, that subreddit's fucking gone.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      dankleft posts memes but I found the mods being pretty sussy when ukraine/russia heated up. My effortposts about NATO history were getting deleted and the mods were claiming that they couldn't approve them because of the links. But then I could post the same stuff to zedong, so their claims of a blanket ban on certain domains seemed to be bullshit to me, but idk.