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I mean I think the explanation is pretty obvious, they deplatformed all the leftists and left with no obvious place to hang out, they all left the site.
I think a large portion likely just logged off, thats why its important to ban fascist hangouts, the technique works.
I believe I remember reading that right before Chapo was banned, Reddit was taken over by CIA ghouls
2 people? I don’t remember either of them.
EDIT: Scratch that there’s like 6 or 7? I still don’t recognise any of them.
Tech companies and the security state have had a revolving door between them for awhile now. It’s not a take over, it’s business as usual.
Right? The CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel (if I made that name up you’d tell me it was too on the nose) regularly produceses tech products, including the big data predictive policing program Palentir, which guesses your likelyhood of being a criminal based on your metadata, purchasing history, contacts with people in the legal system, credit score, etc.
The CIA is a tech company.
Definitely. I Haven’t been on politics probably since April though, but I felt that politics had actually gotten BETTER in terms of the libs drifting leftward now that orange man wasn’t in office.
Yeah, I got banned from politics recently for saying nobody should get “butthurt” over my green party vote. Anything and everything is reported as incivility if you’re not deep throating the Bo Jiden boot, and yet the democrats in /R/politics can say all kinds of fucked up shit.
Reddit has always been fine if you stay in niche subreddits. The problem is that those niche subs don’t make them money.
Reddit, like Digg before it, historically was a combination of a loud libertarian minority with a liberal, progressive leaning base. That’s just a fact of demographics - it was mostly 15-35 year old tech nerds, and that’s their politics (it certainly was in 2007-2015). Plus, the Overton Window simply didn’t allow for those discussions in the mainstream, so it was OK for them to jerk each other off on their little chat room.
Reddit got a lot of attention in 2016 because of both the Sanders campaign and the Trump campaign (and Trump winning really set that into overdrive). That’s when the spooks really started to take a look because real things they were concerned about were actually a threat. No one gave a shit when a bunch of tech nerds were down with OWS, now that social media was ruining their precious elections, they had to do something.
All the cool people got drown out by astroturfing, then bots, then bans, then they got replaced by neoliberal dorks and the general public looking for BuzzFeed style content that Reddit wants to provide.
Very normal that /r/neoliberal gained something like 1000’s of subs per day for awhile.
Is it that strange? Neoliberalism’s the prevailing ideology in the west, especially among the sorts of people who go on tech sites.
It had sat under 4-5k for years and then exploded.
Yet not many new users actually contribute to discussions.
Looks like someone bought users for a subreddit.
Real spooky shit was biden sub in 2016, where image of biden in aviators would get 20k upvotes with 30 comments :sickomogus:
I’m fascinated by how places like reddit and 4chan end up catching the attention of spooks and stupid think tanks operated by the children of billionaire ghouls. They’re, like you said, mostly full of scatterbrained and internet obsessed tech nerd young men, so the sites are full of everything they like. Memes, anime, programming, little tickytacky hobbies, self-aggrandizing posts about stories that never happened where they seem cool and reasonable, stupid nerd shit like marvel and star wars, and so so so much porn. Mountains of porn. Outright sexualizarion of minors not too long ago.
And it’s someone’s job to wade through all that to trick these guys into aligning their brains with American foreign policy.
I’m also fascinated by just how internet centric a lot of their politics are. Anything that restricts or combats what they do online is the worst possible moral outrage, probably one of the reasons they talk about China so much.
Rich people have a lot of free time, so some spend it on the internet posting. A lot of those children of spooks/journalists also go to the same colleges, or run in the same elite circles as the tech bros on Reddit as well, so they learn about these things.
Also, these sites only really caught their attention when they started interfering with real life. No one gives a shit until you make noise (recent elections, Wall Street Bets, etc).
I mean i stopped using it
