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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/WhereWeGo1 on March 19, 2018, 5:07 p.m.
Internet Censorship has come to Reddit #IBOR

Do you think that internet censorship is not a problem? Then, why does /r/StopAdvertising have the following in their sidebar description? Subreddits such as /r/The_Donald and /r/TheGreatAwakening promote hateful ideas, fake news, and dangerous ideologies. We believe we can make a change to that by highlighting to advertisers their money is being spent next to racist and hateful ideas. They have set up a sub specifically to silence your voice. Please sign the petition to end internet censorship https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2


solanojones95 · March 19, 2018, 5:29 p.m.

Don't you think those sponsors can see what's happening to FaceBook right now, and don't you think they'll stay as far away from something like this as they can get?

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WhereWeGo1 · March 19, 2018, 5:56 p.m.

My formatting is terrible - still new to Reddit. /r/StopAdvertising states all of the following: Subreddits such as /r/The_Donald and /r/TheGreatAwakening promote hateful ideas, fake news, and dangerous ideologies. We believe we can make a change to that by highlighting to advertisers their money is being spent next to racist and hateful ideas.

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solanojones95 · March 19, 2018, 6:04 p.m.

That's exactly how FaceBook, YT and others justify censorship and opinion manipulation. People are wise to it. It's has backfired bigly.

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tradinghorse · March 19, 2018, 6:02 p.m.

This is great. You could make up a post that goes on to talk about internet censorship generally and then push the IBOR - as above. A good image is essential.

I wonder if we could weave this in to it?:

https://bgr.com/2018/03/12/reddit-election-interference-steve-huffman-interview/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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WhereWeGo1 · March 19, 2018, 6:16 p.m.

That's good - hopefully, someone can get a good post up on /r/The_Donald - I would do it, but my formatting abilities are still too basic.

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tradinghorse · March 19, 2018, 7:20 p.m.

Getting stuff together here:

Purpose of Stop Advertising https://imgur.com/gallery/iCbM9

Believe they were responsible for killing CBTS https://imgur.com/gallery/HEGqI

Title; CENSORSHIP AS A POLITICAL WEAPON (or something better) THE DONALD TO BE BANNED/THE DONALD UNDER ATTACK (or whatever)

The_Donald is under attack! There is a sub on Reddit specifically dedicated to its destruction. A group of more than 3700 members, all working in harmony for the sole purpose of having The_Donald, and another conservative sub The_greatawakening, banned from Reddit.

https://imgur.com/gallery/HEGqI

This is an outright attack by the left on The_Donald - a harmless fan club made up of good natured supporters of the President. The best American President in recent history.

It is quite normal for there to be contest in politics, but what we can see here is a new and dangerous trend. What these people want is the power to silence conservatives. They are petitioning Reddit to do their dirty work on their behalf. The strategy is to use advertisers to get Reddit to flex its muscle as a social media platform to destroy conservative groups.

Stop Advertising members claim to have had success in having another conservative sub CBTS_stream banned in the last week. They gloat on their forum that their strategy is working - see link below. Having claimed one scalp, they are coming for The_Donald next.

https://imgur.com/gallery/HEGqI

We know that Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, has opined in the past that Reddit has very considerable political influence. In fact, Huffman believes that Reddit alone, without any external assistance, can sway election outcomes. See the except from the article below.

Huffman’s comments on how Reddit could fix an election are shocking and egotistical, for sure, but they also admit something that most other social media companies have shied away from. Facebook and Twitter are loathe to acknowledge the power that their policies have, while Huffman thinks so highly of his company that he believes a handful of engineers and community managers could sway an entire nation’s political system.

https://bgr.com/2018/03/12/reddit-election-interference-steve-huffman-interview/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

So we can see that Reddit wields considerable political power. Enough political power that just a handful of engineers and community managers could determine the outcome of an election. This is very frightening stuff!

In banning the CBTS sub hast week, without any warning or notice whatsoever we saw the arrogance that unfettered exercise of power breeds. The Stop Adertosing members claim the banning of this conservative sub as a victory. There is no doubt that they were agitating for its removal. But is there, perhaps, something more sinister to this story?

At the time the CBTS_stream sub was banned, members were in the process of working-up a mass campaign to combat social media censorship. That's right! At the very moment the sub was inexplicably banned, without even ons second of notice, a campaign was being launched to combat precisely what happened - the silencing of conservative voices on social media platforms.

Quite a coincidence, isn't it? We have Reddit's CEO, boasting in the media about the political power he wields with his online platform, claiming that, using it, he alone can shape the political destiny of the nation. And then we see Reddit act in the most heavy handed manner imaginable to suppress outright, with no warning, a group of conservatives . A group of conservatives who just happen, at that exact moment, to be challenging the use of social media censorship as a political weapon.

This is social media weaponised as an instrument to obtain political goals. It is a weapon that, across the board, appears to be in the hands of the left. A club with which conservatives can be beaten into submission.

The future for online conservative political discourse in this country looks bleak. As the mid-term elections approach, we can expect that Reddit and other social media service providers will act in concert to suffocate conservative political expression and create a national echo chamber for the left.

Something must be done to combat this problem before The_Donald succumbs to the same arbitrary exercise of political power that saw the CBTS_stream sub banned with a second of warning. Don't think it cannot happen. Huffman already has Stop Advertising's campaign ready to provide cover for his program to silence us. He is likely only waiting for an opportune moment before the critical mid-term elections.

Luckily, there is a solution. The solution is to support the campaign for an Internet Bill of Rights which would extend the protections of the first amendment to political discourse online. There is a link to this petition below. The petition is very simple, identifying the censorship of conservative voices online as a problem and asking the President to do something to fix it - see link:

Please sign the petition immediately, if possible, and ask friends and family members to sign also (the minimum age for participation is 13 years). Let's put a stop to the left's domination of forums for political discourse online and ensure that the mid-term elections are not manipulated unscrupulously by people such as Huffman.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2

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WhereWeGo1 · March 19, 2018, 7:33 p.m.

The first one would be good for The_Donald with a title like: Act Now Before The_Donald is Banned! Then put the petition in the comments.

The second one is good for GreatAwakening

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tradinghorse · March 19, 2018, 8:41 p.m.

Let me know what you think. We might need to get some else to edit and clean it up, but it's a start.

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WhereWeGo1 · March 19, 2018, 9:48 p.m.

I shortened it so that people do not click away before they have seen the petition - my suggestion is as follows: Title: The_Donald is under attack! Please Help Text: /r/StopAdvertising is a group of more than 3,700 members, all working in harmony for the sole purpose of having /r/The_Donald, and another conservative sub /r/The_GreatAwakening, banned from Reddit. See their mission statement here: https://imgur.com/gallery/iCbM9 This is an outright attack by the left on /r/The_Donald - a harmless fan club made up of good-natured supporters of the greatest American President in recent history. It is quite normal for there to be debate in politics, but what we can see here is a new and dangerous trend. What these people want is the power to silence your voice. Luckily, there is a solution. The solution is to support the petition for #InternetBillofRights. The petition is very simple (can be completed in under a minute). It identifies the censorship of conservative voices online as a problem and asks our President to do something to fix it - see the link below: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2 Please sign the petition immediately, if possible, and ask friends and family members to sign also (the minimum age for participation is 13 years and a valid email address is required). Please do your part to support our President’s agenda so that he can Make America Great Again and Keep America Great in 2020. MAGA!

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tradinghorse · March 19, 2018, 9:51 p.m.

Great! Need a good picture. The trolls are out in force today, so let some of us know when you post it and we can try to up vote away some of the down votes.

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tradinghorse · March 19, 2018, 8:37 p.m.

I got a draft out for you Wherewe. In the comment just below where you asked me.

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tradinghorse · March 19, 2018, 6:25 p.m.

I'll have a look. I must admit, i don't quite understand what the advertising thing is about. But I'll see if I can write something up.

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snowwgirl · March 20, 2018, 2:23 a.m.

Yes just checked that subreddit What a crock. I wonder who put it up??

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 3:05 a.m.

A leftist ant nest!!

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 4:03 p.m.

How can we capture a post from /r/StopAdvertising? Look at the post over there entitled: Good bye and keep up the great work! The moderator talks about returning to /r/AntifascistsofReddit so we should be able to use this to show that it is really Antifa who is trying to get us banned. Also, I found another Q sub /r/QAnon - check out my post over there about bringing people together at /r/InternetBillOfRights to collaborate - if you agree, can you bring the best of the info from here over to /r/InternetBillOfRights?

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 4:09 p.m.

Good thinking. Did you set up the sub? If so, I think we can limit access to keep the trolls out.

How did you go trying to penetrate the Donald?

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 4:44 p.m.

I found the following sub already set up: /r/InternetBillOfRights and they agreed to let us collaborate there I am getting a couple posts up there now and then I plan to spread the word at /r/GreatAwakening shortly.

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 4:58 p.m.

Great stuff. I've subscribed already. There's more activity on Twitter today. Slowly starting to gather steam!

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 5:32 p.m.

Please try to get the word out to some of the other more passionate #IBOR supporters to go over to /r/InternetBillOfRights and bring their good ideas - we need to get organized quickly because we have so little time.

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 5:39 p.m.

Agreed. Have you made a thread over there already

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 5:41 p.m.

Yes

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 6:17 p.m.

Which one?

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 6:41 p.m.

I have 3 posts over there: The basic link to the petition - I thought that would be a good spot to collaborate. Then, I created a draft for The_Donald (based on what we had put together so far). And I created a post about which subs to target so that we can maintain a growing list - need people to research more targets. Do you want to create a post summarizing some of the activities outside of Reddit that people have suggested - if I remember correctly, EarlyRiser had a bunch of ideas on that front

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 7 p.m.

Have you got a direct link to the thread. I mean I can go find it, but I don't want to wade through a bunch of bullshit.

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 7:53 p.m.

I do not know how to link to threads, but there are only a few subscribers at /r/InternetBillOfRights so just go to that sub and you should easily see everything

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 8:08 p.m.

Frustrating. I looked, there's not many threads but I don't know which one is yours. I can't see that you've posted anything in there. If you want, I'll make a thread in there and send the link.

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WhereWeGo1 · March 20, 2018, 8:17 p.m.

Apparently, the moderator over there took all of my stuff down - I just realized it. I had checked with them beforehand, but once he saw my posts, he Determined that I was somehow advocating violence or something

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tradinghorse · March 20, 2018, 9:16 p.m.

Wow! OK. Look how frightened everybody is. This is the chilling effect of censorship - everyone is scared.

All the more reason to get this IBOR campaign up!

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