The site runs on a moderation system where users vote content up or down, which sounds democratic until you realize it just means popular opinion determines what's true. Downvotes aren't a quality signal, they're a mob signal. And then moderators and admins take that mob signal and dress it up as an official ruling, calling your post "bad faith" or "trolling" when what they mean is "people didn't like it." They're not moderating for quality. They're laundering popularity into policy.But here's the thing Reddit isn't just some random website anymore. It has a functional monopoly on internet discussion. That's not an exaggeration, that's just what it is. And when your entire business is speech not incidentally, not as a side feature, but fundamentally you don't get to arbitrarily silence people without that meaning something.We regulate industries based on what they actually do. Banks get regulated like banks. Broadcasters get regulated like broadcasters. Utilities get regulated like utilities. Reddit exists purely to host public conversation. That's the product. So why does it get to operate with zero accountability for how it manages that conversation?A shopping mall can kick you out. Reddit is not a shopping mall. Reddit is the town square. And if you control the town square, you don't get to decide who speaks in it based on whether the crowd likes them.
>>108998083Wouldn't it be faster to just put all redditors into death camps?
>>108998083>crying about reddit on 4chanDo the world a favour and kill yourself.
>>108998083Reddit was Epstein's website. Fake democracy was used to manufacture opinion, not help people express it.You got it backwards, dumb frog poster.Reddit was never profitable during decades of it's existence. They turned profit recently when they sold everything they had (similar to what StackOverflow did), but until then someone was dumping a lot of money for that shithole to exists and influence public opinion.Same with 4chins really.> We regulate industries based on what they actually doRegulate elites to not fuck kids then. Good luck.
>>108998083Nice. Now you discovered why section 230 exists. The very fact that operate as publisher (by being able to profit from others opinions) while avoiding prosecution as a publisher has always been the problem. Indeed, they even get to ban or regulate constitutionally protected free speech without consequence while saying they are a public forum is treasonous to the constitution.>Make them accountable for all content, if they regulate it.That has been the proposed change to section 230 since it's inception, but since at least the princeton oligarch study it's been known that nothing is to the benefit of the population. The narrative must be controlled to continue to push wealth upwards and kill social mobility.Now we're at the level where UBI is coming to cement a permanent underclass with digital currency and biometric tracking to protect the children, unless that interferes with child trafficking ala the Epstein class because it's this very class that controls the AI guardrails.
