Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship - GoFuckYourself.com

wehateporn · 04-21-2014, 01:10 PM

Only allowed in the default while you're being censored it would seem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27100773

Social news site Reddit has downgraded the status of its "technology" section after a censorship row.

The category is no longer a "default subreddit", meaning it stops being one of two dozen communities promoted to new account holders.

It follows a report by the Daily Dot that revealed headlines posted to the area had been secretly deleted if they featured certain words.

The subreddit's own moderators now acknowledge that this was a "disaster".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27100773

blackmonsters · 04-21-2014, 01:19 PM

What were these "certain words"?

Were the words similar to "cool bomb making guide"?

wehateporn · 04-21-2014, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by blackmonsters

What were these "certain words"?

Were the words similar to "cool bomb making guide"?

Not sure if these will get through the GFY filters or not, let's see:-

title: ["cake day", "cakeday", "any love", "some love", "breaking", "petition", "Manning", "Snowden", "NSA", "N.S.A.", "National Security Agency", "spying", "spies", "Spy agency", "Spy agencies", "مارتيخ ̷̴̐خ", "White House", "Obama", "0bama", "CIA", "FBI", "GCHQ", "DEA", "FCC", "Congress", "Supreme Court", "State Department", "State Dept", "Pentagon", "Assange", "Wojciech", "Braszczok", "Front page", "Comcast", "Time Warner", "TimeWarner", "AT&T", "Obamacare", "davidreiss666", "maxwellhill", "anutensil", "Bitcoin", "bitcoins", "dogecoin", "MtGox", "US government", "U.S. government", "federal judge", "legal reason", "Homeland", "Senator", "Senate", "Congress", "Appeals Court", "US Court", "EU Court", "U.S. Court", "E.U. Court", "Net Neutrality", "Net-Neutrality", "Federal Court", "the Court", "Reddit", "flappy", "CEO", "Startup", "ACLU", "Condoleezza"]

signupdamnit · 04-21-2014, 01:32 PM

A lot of people don't know it but Reddit is owned by the same people who also own an ISP (the ISP I use) Bright House Networks. I believe the parent company is called Newhouse Media. You can verify it on Wikipedia.

Matt 26z · 04-21-2014, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by wehateporn

Not sure if these will get through the GFY filters or not, let's see:-

title: ["cake day", "cakeday", "any love", "some love", "breaking", "petition", "Manning", "Snowden", "NSA", "N.S.A.", "National Security Agency", "spying", "spies", "Spy agency", "Spy agencies", "مارتيخ ̷̴̐خ", "White House", "Obama", "0bama", "CIA", "FBI", "GCHQ", "DEA", "FCC", "Congress", "Supreme Court", "State Department", "State Dept", "Pentagon", "Assange", "Wojciech", "Braszczok", "Front page", "Comcast", "Time Warner", "TimeWarner", "AT&T", "Obamacare", "davidreiss666", "maxwellhill", "anutensil", "Bitcoin", "bitcoins", "dogecoin", "MtGox", "US government", "U.S. government", "federal judge", "legal reason", "Homeland", "Senator", "Senate", "Congress", "Appeals Court", "US Court", "EU Court", "U.S. Court", "E.U. Court", "Net Neutrality", "Net-Neutrality", "Federal Court", "the Court", "Reddit", "flappy", "CEO", "Startup", "ACLU", "Condoleezza"]

Seems as though the feds have Reddit in their back pocket. Not surprised. They did assassinate one of the founders.

These kind of citizen controlled news sites are a huge threat to the agendas of elected officials.

CLINTON ADMIN FEARED INTERNET'S ABILITY TO DEMOCRATICIZE NEWS 3 YEARS BEFORE DRUDGE BOMBSHELL
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journal...udge-Bombshell

REPORT: HILLARY CLINTON ACCUSED GOP STAFFERS OF COLLUDING WITH 'EXTREMISTS' ON INTERNET
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ts-on-Internet

fuzebox · 04-21-2014, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

A lot of people don't know it but Reddit is owned by the same people who also own an ISP (the ISP I use) Bright House Networks. I believe the parent company is called Newhouse Media. You can verify it on Wikipedia.

They are a massive media company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

lezinterracial · 04-21-2014, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by signupdamnit

A lot of people don't know it but Reddit is owned by the same people who also own an ISP (the ISP I use) Bright House Networks. I believe the parent company is called Newhouse Media. You can verify it on Wikipedia.

I figured they owned imgur too. Guess I was wrong. There doesn't seem to be any connection between Reddit and Imgur. Guess it cause imgur is a nice and safe image hosting service.

oppoten · 04-21-2014, 05:33 PM

Everything about that site tells me it will be heavily censored and moderated.

That's why I don't use it.

iSpyCams · 04-21-2014, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lezinterracial

I figured they owned imgur too. Guess I was wrong. There doesn't seem to be any connection between Reddit and Imgur. Guess it cause imgur is a nice and safe image hosting service.

IMGUR was built for reddit, caters to reddit and works very hard to be reddits official image host.

1215 · 04-21-2014, 06:13 PM

no connection? how about 90% of image posts on reddit are from imgur.

no connection though, just a coincidence, and there's really no other image hosting site at all.

BIGTYMER · 04-21-2014, 06:52 PM

Fuck reddit.

bean-aid · 04-21-2014, 08:30 PM

reddit sucks

JuicyBunny · 04-21-2014, 11:06 PM

Reddit, for freedumb fighters.

Its censored more than a Japanese porno.

wehateporn · 04-22-2014, 09:48 AM

dyna mo · 04-22-2014, 09:53 AM

the hacker aaron swartz committed suicide. he wasn't murdered

somewhat tragic yes, a conspiracy- no.

wehateporn · 04-22-2014, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dyna mo

the hacker aaron swartz committed suicide. he wasn't murdered

somewhat tragic yes, a conspiracy- no.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2482646.html

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