December 19, 2012
By Anomaly
Oh no. Reddit banned us. What do we do NOW? Reddit’s censorship warriors just arbitrarily banned our asses.
Reddit’s SOPA stance is hypocritical, and in their pursuit of seeking more revenue, they have ceased listening to their user base while in the midst of a corporately owned powerhouse.
Articles submitted to the behemoth social site Reddit are voted on, or down voted by the site users. Some sites hire promoters to give their site some attention/traffic. Reddit has used this synopsis to arbitrarily ban certain sites, even without providing evidence, which they claim to have in their possession. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and the Reddit user base are/have been involved in anti-censorship activism which is admirable and also the reason that I first fell in love with Reddit, but the site itself has morphed into the epitome of censorship. As a news aggregator they are taking certain steps to ban users and sites in a fashion which seems suspect. Of course, Reddit does not see this as censorship but without evidence of any wrongdoing, it most certainly is exactly that.The Daily Dot reports:
“….a small group of volunteer moderators have close ties to Reddit’s paid staff, causing some to worry that those moderators hold unfair influence in a community that takes pride in an egalitarian ethos.”
See: Pastebin
Reddit has moderators to be sure the rules are adhered to; no editing of titles, no spamming and no doxxing. By spam (to moderators), that means no more than one out of ten submissions should be from your site or what a person has authored. The unwritten rules of which the user base is not made privy to, is that one may not submit from any site more than once out of ten times. So users believe they are following the rules and are told later, or even told via a ban that they are not adhering to the unwritten rules. " continued: http://freakoutnation.com/2012/12/19/confessions-from-the-inside-reddits-political-underbelly-is-not-a-pretty-site/
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Related articles:
Reddit CEO Speaks Out On Violentacrez In Leaked Memo: ‘We Stand for Free Speech’ - http://gawker.com/5952349/
Reddit Admits Banning Major Sites
http://www.i-programmer.info/the-stone-tapes/4374-reddit-comes-clean-admits-banning-major-sites.html
Reddit #modtalk leak
http://pastebin.com/S4QBwGAR
Reddit is rude
http://www.i-programmer.info/the-stone-tapes/466-reddit-is-rude.html
Reddit Reportedly Banning High-Quality Domains
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregvoakes/2012/06/13/reddit-reportedly-banning-high-quality-domains/
Social Media Giants Set Up “Free Speech Zones” to Censor Dissent
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/social-media-giants-set-up-free-speech-zones-to-censor-dissent.html
Reddit, freedom of speech and the dark side of community
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/11/reddit-freedom-of-speech-and-the-dark-side-of-community/
Leak drama grips Reddit
http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-sushileaks-erik-martin-moderators/
Reddit Banned Domains
http://www.reddit.com/r/BannedDomains/new/
http://www.reddit.com/r/BannedDomains/comments/v1vqn/current_list_of_banned_domains_updating/
http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/18/reddit-takes-censorship-into-its-own-hands-with-new-blocking-policy/
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/censorship-by-top-social-media-websites/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/biggest-social-media-sites-censor-alternative-news/5315707
http://howgoodisthat.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/political-censorship-and-moderator-bias-on-reddit-com/
http://haverzine.com/reddit-under-fire-for-censorship-once-more/
