Say No to Corporate owned Social Media
The toxicity, damage, lies, and other awful things spread online are nearly exclusively propagated by “social media” sites pretending to be community hubs, facading for corporate owned billionaire oligarchs. Let’s stop beating around the bush here and call out Reddit as one of the biggest and worst criminals of this that I have recently witnessed. Reddit pretends to be a community hub, but is actually in bed with every other big corporate oligarch. Reddit has recently started a new campaign to silence calls for Federal Workers to Strike ASAP in light of the recent proclamation from president Muskrat. I witnessed it with my own eyes; lurking a reddit thread about the recent federal worker unrest reading massive threads of comments about it, and when I refreshed, posts started vanishing. One by one. Each time I was refreshing I was seeing more and more posts about the federal worker strike getting deleted. Reddit corporate staff are actively working to silence calls of a Federal Strike. I couldn’t believe my own eyes so I jumped on my computer and opened the same thread. I started tabbing open comments, and eventually they were all deleted. I started watching user accounts of federal works calling for the strike, and I was watching these reddit account get banned. These were not smurfs, in one case I legit saw a 10+ year old reddit account get completely killed. I watched Reddit staff shift the entire tone from one of federal unrest to one of people making fun of federal workers. This is honestly crazy, seeing this level of censorship occurring before my eyes…. and on Reddit of all places.
No corporate social media sites can be trusted, AT ALL any more. The comments you read, you think are organic, have been curated, manicured, and shaped, to say exactly what ideology the billionaires who own Reddit are pushing. I never realized what an extremely dangerous tool Reddit (and all social media owned by them) has become for the oligarchs. They can pretend to be natural community opinions, when in reality they’re just wiping the opinions of the mass amount of accounts that aren’t pushing their corporate political agenda. This is extremely scary and dangerous to democracy as a whole.
Something bad is brewing. Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good…