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.
The west really makes fun of China for the great firewall and does stuff like this lol.
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.
no this is fine because the Free Market™ is censoring information, and not the Government 🤢🤮🤢🤮
it's actually the CIA https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/
Inform these people of how the government and free market co operate and watch their brains explode.
Not possible. 6 solid inches of congealed ideology protect their brains from thinking that
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.
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
Well you see, Reddit is owned by China so that's why they did this -Average redditor
bourgeois non-liberatory nationalism is a :bruh-moment:
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.
Just watch, give them a few years and they're just going to start arresting people for what they post online, and of course fascists and pedophiles are going to get special exemption like they already do now.
They were jailing IWW members during the Cold War, just give it some time. We're being inconvenient to them. They'll find a justification.
The CIA literally controlls the western internet lol
https://hexbear.net/post/3114
One and a half I think. Rounding up the age of the posts
The little work I've done in JavaScript makes it sound like a nightmare tbh
It's not too bad. Out of all the UX frameworks ive used React is literally a dream. Although i do not understand the people using JS on the backend lol
Although i do not understand the people using JS on the backend lol
:yea:
Uh wait I take that back I think we have a small js server running to serve the frontend oops 😬
that's kinda the appeal of these shitty blockchain decentral software
you don't need to care about servers, just install it, it grabs the whole blockchain (or not), load it up with some chunguscoin and presto
The centralization of the Internet and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity
:a-guy:
Exactly why stuff like this, niche forums, irc servers are so fn cool. Almost feels like a rebellion against social media tech conglomerates
Disfunctional, fun, pointless, well-intentioned, and destined to collapse under the weight of internal drama? Idk seems about right to me
Yeah this analogy hits a little closer to home than I had thought :deeper-sadness:
I gotta get back on irc sometimes. Are there any cool places to look for channels anymore?
Im gonna be completely honest, I never really learned how to use irc too well other than to get help with some obscure library or something. But i really respect what people are doing on there.
If you just want to go on and chat, not do anything fancy like run scripts, it's not really much harder than setting up and using an email account.
there's a lot of decentralization movements, they're just not mainstream
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
nah i think the actual chuds will be allowed to stay as long as they wrap their vile shit in vague aesthetics
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.
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:
:sadness-abysmal: it was inevitable ig.
I was there when FULLCOMMUNISM was quarantined :chomsky-yes-honey:
At least with r/FULLCOMMUNISM you can still visit it, it still shows up under "My Communities". For r/genzedong you can't even visit unless you've given r*ddit your email.
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.
morphing
:doubt:
"what even is critical support, and why does it not apply whenever the joke isn't funny to me?"
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.
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
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.
Has Queen Enver returned from her slumber beneath the hill, just when we needed her the most?
told you guys the cia controls all media (including reddit)
mentioning the employment history of their director of content policy will get you banned for harassment
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
That Atlantic Council lady with no digital media experience ending up as director of policy proved that quite handily
Looks like an app thing. The website using old reddit com (mobile and desktop) has the "uncredible" information tag, which is scary AF.
Contains a high volume of information not supported by credible sources
Real "who watches the watch men" hours
Capitalism has always been against free speech. See all of the red scare.
Send that image to spez, and watch what happens to your Reddit account. He is most likely editing genzedong comments now.
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.
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.
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.
Took a look at /r/subredditdrama
Neoliberalism is winning the information war (if you want to call it that)
:sadness-abysmal:
Neoliberalism is winning the information war
Looks like we'll have no choice but to win the real war.
I mean they always mostly have in the US. And most countries for that matter.
they'll win the "information war" at the cost of a livable future
Stickied comment by mod saying fuck tankies
Same mod also mods r/xijinping (Sub dedicated to the one joke as well as covid conspiracy theories). Who woulda guessed.
This whole saga really brings into light the western fetishization of free speech
The Christman explanation for the stupidity of :freeze-peach: becomes relevant once again
lmao "I disagree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death to defend your right to say it" my ass
I'm fully on board with censoring anyone who is not a communist at this point. Fuck it.
Unironically same, I'll give some to anarchists too, the real ones are pretty based and make some good points
“I disagree with what you say, but I’ll fight to the death to defend your right to say it”
any time someone says this garbage I ask 2 very simple questions (and I admit this is kinda "debatebro" energy so your mileage may vary)
1: Will you "defend to death" my right to attack free speech as an idea? (They usually say no)
2: Will you "defend to death" my right to dehumanize vulnerable groups and suggest collective violence against them? (They usually say yes)
This reveals immediately what they're about and even though arguing with them isn't worth it, if there's an audience of people, I think it lays the stakes on the table pretty clearly.
