How can "reddit" be at the center of these major happenings? Why are the admins like Alexis coming out as the "good" guys now? Good PR?
I always felt that WSB was one of the very few subs that felt entirely independent of the overall feel of reddit, like /r/conspiracy used to be, so I'm somewhat comforted this impetus came from them over any other sub. Perhaps the admins are jumping on the bandwagon so they don't get crucified by the plebs.
Either way, all the world's a stage, that's for damn sure!
u/axolotl_peyotl the thing is they had never complete control over red.dit. While they keep it as their tool of indoctrination they allowed there to exist some limited free speech, otherwise red.dit would be too quickly recognised as indoctrination centre serving mass manipulation it really is. Red.dit is ideal for such manipulation because of relative "anonymity" ( XD ) of users who don't fear to share some of their ideas so much it could be on facebook account. Red.dit account look more "anonymous" than facebook ones - right ?
They had people in one place and quite controlled by moderation and monitoring of key things instead of distributed among many websites and forums impossible to control.However their resources would be (and probably are) limited and it backfires when people do or post things they don't want and don't notice. Simply control shall be subtle or people would go.And controlling everything in so huge service without really smart AI which would UNDERSTAND text is still almost impossible task. They would use "shepherd dogs" when there is some problem,but they are still mostly blind. They might search for keywords/"troublemakers". But it is impossible to keep an eye on everything.
u/StrngerDngerMaus claims:
Well: I think not. However those "attacks on reddit" are done because:
- Red.dit is biggest place believed to have free speech (bullshit, just intelligence "legend" for those indoctrination centre/operation - free speech on reddit is limited) so those believing it that attack red.dit
- Government criticizing red.dit is kind of order of takedown and justification to destroy unwanted community. Otherwise that would be big proof of bad will/vicious behaviour of red.dit mods what would strike at its "credability"
look they are innocent,they don't censor - they just want to avoid troubles with government so they remove harmful communities or individuals /s
- It is backward "proof" of "free speech" on red.dit when they criticize it
Kind of proof: https://conspiracies.win/p/11SKC3Pt5u/just-like-i-said-days-ago-they-a/c/ As I say - now "shepard dogs" and government have those people and DOXX them.
I think it is possible they also want red.dit to use more algorithms serving monitoring of speech like in case of Twitter and Facebook.
Red.dit net worth is 3 billion $ 10x less than twitter while twitter has only 2x more users. So it might have probably less advanced analytics and is considered to have smaller marketing potential because of that.
fantastic analysis, thanks!