Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
I think that happened a long time ago
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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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
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Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.
That ship sailed years ago.
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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.
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.
yes it has, but it was like 15 years ago and absolutely wild
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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.
Funny, that's the exact same vibe I always get from street interviews in Russia.
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It's been working out for the rich and powerful so far. Why wouldn't it work for us too?
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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.
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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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A reddit thread about this is what actually led me here. Reddit has been on my shit list for a while, it's cool this place exists.
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Scary that they banned WhitePeopleTwitter, a sub with 3M+ subscribers.
Embrace our superior locally raised [email protected], or the more inclusive and not twitter-centric [email protected]
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The resistance will be federated.
Huffman isn't bending the knee. He's been deep throating Musk for quite a while. Even before the whole API thing, it was known the he saw Musk as a great role model.
Yeah, Reddit hasn’t been safe in a long time. If people are only just now realizing that, it’s because they’ve been extremely sheltered from… Well… Gestures vaguely at everything
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I'm not even remotely surprised. Anybody who has been following the history of Reddit will know that their senior management are spineless and will change their stance at a whim when it either hurts their public image or it no longer becomes viable from a business perspective.
We're forgetting that this is the same site that allowed jailbait, creepshots, racial hatred, right wing propaganda, rampant misogyny, gore videos, terrorist propaganda (if anyone remembers ISIL) and other disgusting content to proliferate until various scandals forced their hand. Spez in particular is a massive snake that will throw people under the bus and lie through his teeth if it benefits him.
But then again, with a government as volatile as this, maybe you don't want to piss of Trump or Musk...
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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.
Spez lied about a phone call with one of the third party app devs back in 2023. He's not fair with us, don't be fair with him.
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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.
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Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised
Woah, looks like a post from a few years ago must have gotten stuck behind a file cabinet!
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When people come here from reddit remember to highlight them on decentralization and open source software. People need to understand why certain platforms and services are better not simply switch side.
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Fuck spez
obligatory 'fuck spez'. also reddit was compromised a long time ago.
Most have come back, /drugs for example. The admins said its a glitch, I can't beleive that and glad I'm here. I have no doubt reddit will get on its knees in the name of $$$$$$.
Jesus, and I thought notorious piss baby Steve Huffman could not possibly get any more pathetic.
Could there be a better example of why not to remain on Reddit?
The United States of America has become comfortable with bending the knee to petulant man-children. What an utterly pathetic time to be an American. Truly embarrassing.
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Just checking: John Brown did nothing wrong, slave owners should be killed.
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100% done with reddit, the place is now propaganda central and censorship is out of control.
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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 🙏
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Fuck...ppl still use that dumb pigs trash site? Huffman can do one. 🖕
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