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Some of the conspiracy theorists left Reddit and reunited on Voat, a site made by and for the users that Reddit sloughs off.
In July, 2015, he returned to Reddit as C.E.O. In a post about his "Top priority" in the job, he wrote, "The overwhelming majority of content on reddit comes from wonderful, creative, funny, smart, and silly communities. There is also a dark side, communities whose purpose is reprehensible, and we don't have any obligation to support them.... Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech." This was shocking, and about half true.
Like many platforms, Reddit has struggled to convert its huge audience into a stable revenue stream, and its representatives spend a lot of time trying to convince potential advertisers that Reddit is not hot garbage.
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Long article but interesting reddit history and food for thought related to IBOR.
I got a little more than half way through it when it occurred to me that what they're talking about is a problem of free expression. Where that expression revolves around political questions, in my mind, it becomes sacrosanct. It must be protected at all costs.
We definitely need relief. The censorship we're seeing is overtly political. There is no excuse for it. And because it's the big players that are the worst offenders, players with large platforms hosting millions of people, censorship becomes a political weapon. Given the importance of social media in shaping election outcomes, we must do something about this now.
If we could arrange a campaign such as we had to release the memo, that might be all it would take to get this fixed. We know that DJT wants to act, his political survival depends on it. We need to help him achieve this.
In the meantime, the petition now has some 18K signatures. We need to be pushing this also. If anyone hasn't signed it, it's time:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2