Reddit is lockstep with legacy media... What does that say?
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Eh, they've always been. For example, /r/conspiracy was created by the admins to keep 9/11 conspiracies theories quarantined from the rest of Reddit. It what drove Aaron Swartz (RIP) out of the company. He was miserable about what was happening with the company/website.
Wasnt always like that.
There was a time when we could discuss whatever we wanted, which is what aaron wanted.
It was spetz and the other person who just seen a opportunity to make money, alot of it.
Others like ghislaine who saw other uses for it... you have to wonder how many people were groomed with this site.
Don't forget to either delete you data or corrupt it.
Corrupt it?
Not just delete it. Use an app to make your comments nonsense so LLM isn't any good. Ducks with the value for AI.
Reddit was not formed on a "free speech" foundation beloved of Swartz. He was pushed onto Spez and Alexis Ohanian by Paul Graham with "if you want more seed money, you have to take Swartz and call him a co-founder" and they resented him.
That's why Spez never eulogizes about him or mentions him or says "it's what Aaron would want".
I'll never forget axo being repeatedly dragged in the news. But this is more. This is trying to maintain a hold on the news diet.
As much as I like and respect Axo (which is a lot), he was just sadly used as a scapegoat. He has/had good intentions but was naive of higher forces at play. He is a good dude who literally had /r/conspiracy served to him on a silver platter by sheer luck. Only for a specific time, though (as we now know). He was never going to be able to fully control it. I told him that. Just like what I'm seeing here on the win/scored/whatever the fuck this place rebrands as networks. We are beholden to questionable forces here, and I'm hoping we can change that. I'm in the process of building something and I wish Axo would respond to my PM.
Anyways, yea... It's always been this way and will always continue to be this way if we do not take shit into our own hands and start decentralizing and self hosting/ running our own shit. Until you do that (become Sovereign), you/me are merely Citizen's/Subjects of the Sovereign. Whoever that may be.
Reddit became unusable for many of us that think away from the left years ago. Now they're getting a taste of their own medicine, and they don't like it.
No one should be willing to do business with spez. He made serious criminal accusations, and then dared to blame the person who proved he was a liar for proving he was a liar. There is no coming back from that. Between that, and changing your comments after the fact, Reddit isn't safe.
Eh, I'm going to disagree with that. We are not "all one and nothing exists". We humans label and define things because things are different and serve different purposes. We don't plunge the toilet with a tooth brush, now do we? Labels and definitions exist for a reason. There is nothing wrong with categorizing a,b, c, etc etc or having rules/principles. Even animals do this.
The problem comes into play when we cannot have a god damn respectful discussion with one another for whatever reason or entertain a thought for whatever reason. That would be more about the ego and dare I say, a spiritual discussion of Natural Truth/Law.
Which takes us all the way back to the big bang or a mysterious non-existent ancient monkey ancestor. We never get to it. *Paraphrased from Alan Watts. *