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Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
I think that happened a long time ago
i was gonna ask if op was new to the internet.
like, what does he think we're all doing here in the first place
Was it really ever a safe place for free speech?
Back before they went "independent," kind of. When Sears sent legal threats to take down a post exploiting an xss bug to make a joke about grilling babies, reddit had a big public discussion on it, and ultimately left the post up
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
That ship sailed years ago.
Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech
Friendly reminder of when spez, many years ago, literally just changed a user's comment, and then went on to not be immediately fired over this insane breach of everything to do with customer relations.
What the fuck how is this happening without anyone in the US really doing anything
Based on the people I interact with daily basically no one realizes this is happening. Outside of the IT department no one realizes or cares. I asked how we were doing to deal with tariffs on electronics we regularly used a while back and was quietly told that was a political statement and shouldn't be brought up.
Now we have no plan and I'm too bummed to be smug about it.
Again, this is just my anecdotal view.
Ahh the classic US move, pretend the problem doesn't exist until it causes massive problems, then blame someone else.
It's been working out for the rich and powerful so far. Why wouldn't it work for us too?
Funny, that's the exact same vibe I always get from street interviews in Russia.
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I had this conversation over Christmas with my family. As horrible as everything public is, I'm arguably more worried about how the cyber world. Nothing is private, the info is controlled, and the masses are far too ignorant to have any idea how fucked everything is. I mentioned something about how tik Tok is just a data collection so for China, and I got, "whatever, they already have all of my information". I can't then go on to explain why everything is so bad, because nobody knows anything about computers, and the newest generation coming up is arguably worse than boomers, because they've only ever know smartphones and tablets.
Half the IT department i work in built new gaming rigs ahead of time. The other half is non-gamers and republicans.
Id be relieved my work hardware is newer and good for a few years, if i wasn't a federal employee waiting to be fucked over.
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Bread and circuses. As long as they aren't starving, and the forth estate only covers media circuses. Not actually reporting. They'll never know.
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We're overdue for Rexit, round 2.
Nazi boogaloo
If you're still there, advertise us!
Pick an instance without "lemmy" in the name. Say something like: "Want to check out the fediverse? Go to discuss.online!"
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Scary that they banned WhitePeopleTwitter, a sub with 3M+ subscribers.
Embrace our superior locally raised !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works, or the more inclusive and not twitter-centric !microblogmemes@lemmy.world
Ironically most of those 3 million are the "right" color to them. Can't take the heat once you start burning down the kitchen I guess.
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obligatory 'fuck spez'. also reddit was compromised a long time ago.
Spez desperately wants a place on the big bois table
ikr I don't think spez "bent the knee" so much as he was probably pestering Elon night and day asking how he could help.
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Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised
Lol.
Lmao even.
Reddit has never been a safe place for free speech.
Fuck spez
The resistance will be federated.
How do people not expect this of Reddit by now
Reddit has been Facebook since like 2019-2020. Any social media service that gets too big just becomes a complete shit hole, hence my joining the fediverse.
Jesus, and I thought notorious piss baby Steve Huffman could not possibly get any more pathetic.
Sorry to post a reddit thread, but supposedly this was because of death threats to Elon bootlickers. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ihq6ht/whats_going_on_with_whitepeopletwitter_that_got/
Which is ironic because Elon notoriously promoted project veritas literally catfishing his own employees at Twitter, and also brought back accounts like libsoftiktok that existed to target private individuals. But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.
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Here from reddit also. Guilty of leveling criticism against the dominant culture in my state. If you want to be my friend please reach out ๐
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What? But I was told that elon is "not the fed" and nothing would happen to reddit who would fight tooth and nail for everyone's rights.
Gasp, shock, and amazement.
Fuck...ppl still use that dumb pigs trash site? Huffman can do one. ๐
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The warrant canary died almost a decade ago. it hasn't been a safe place for a very long time.
It was always against the rules to do that. Nothing changed, except (from what I heard, I don't use Reddit anymore so correct me if I'm wrong) mods stopped enforcing the rule with regards to Musk, Musk put the spotlight on it, and Reddit (a shitty corporation trying desperately to be profitable) couldn't really do anything but enforce the rule.
It is true that Huffman is an asshole and probably likes the guy, but if it was some other public figure I don't think the outcome would be different.
Reddit was on its way out a couple years ago. i got banned for life for asking a question about violence. Eefff them.
Just checking: John Brown did nothing wrong, slave owners should be killed.
Number of people surprised by this turn of events: 0
Thanks for the warning brah! Huffman seemed like such a stand up guy until now too! Another fallen angel.
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