Free speech on Reddit is essentially dead.

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[–]Fat_Neckbeard 40 insightful - 39 fun40 insightful - 38 fun41 insightful - 39 fun -  (16 children)

Free speech isn't dead on Reddit. You can say whatever you want as long as it's advertiser friendly! Also, remember to buy Reddit Gold™!

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger! :)

[–][deleted] 22 insightful - 3 fun22 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I really hope the whole gold thing doesn't get implemented here. I'd much rather they just stick up a donation link or something.

[–]King_Brutus 19 insightful - 7 fun19 insightful - 6 fun20 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Gold was honestly so cringey. Like "let me pay money to this free site for an incredibly boring and repetitive comment/post".

[–]FLCL 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The most ridiculous ones I remember seeing were posts linking charities and places to donate getting a ton of gold(s). Like they'd rather give reddit money than any charity.

[–]SailorAground 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would love to know how much of the gold and awards are used to pay for advertising, astroturfing, and marketing. It wouldn't be difficult to use Reddit Gold as a currency to hype posts and ads and orchestrate marketing campaigns through a bot network. Just like many bots are put through a period of karma farming to get their social credit high enough to be impactful.

[–]TheKsist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Part of the thing is that reddit mods (or maybe just admins) could award posts without paying for it, artificially inflating the perceived value of posts, which were usually leftist.

[–]SpezForgotSwartz 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

And don't say anything negative about China.

[–]Karlfranz 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

No, the rhetoric that gets subs banned is always in reference to long nose tribe

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or anything to the right of Rosa Luxemburg

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You mean Certain Jews. Maybe, but I think it is more about Corporations working for advertisers. If they see things that go against profit magins they will censor. It is true though, that many of these companies are owned by Jews.

[–]stupidmechanic 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

You have freedom of speech but they can't guarantee your account not being banned after the speech

[–]MezozoicGay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You have freedom to say your last words.

[–]Wrang1er 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

You have freedom of speech, other people have freedom of moderation.

[–]KennyLogins 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

It's not alive here either. Free speech takes work and Voat has shown people don't want to do the work.

Voat tried to allow free speech. Extremists took advantage and started speaking. Those who oppose extremism then fled, so they themselves wouldn't look extremist. What needed happen was just the opposite, regular people needed to join in number and simply drown out the extremist voices. But why would anyone take such a risk in our current cancel climate?

Social media has decreased and degridated free speech, Saidit is no different because people are no different.

[–]philosopher 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm hoping that the pyramid that gets posted a lot round here will take Saidit in a different direction to Voat.

[–]Wrang1er 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

People still whine and call moderators dictators. If you want little moderation, go to Voat.

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Social media has decreased and degridated free speech

Industrialization and the internet has been a disaster for the human race.

[–]Dr_Bukkake 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And social media has been a cancer on the human race.

[–]theoracle 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Optional moderation is the solution https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/54cp/can_we_make_moderation_optional_can_we_have/

[–]KennyLogins 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting, I haven't read about optional moderation. Thank you for the link.

[–]AllStr8SexIsRape 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Voat is why anti-white racism is here to stay.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

2010 called, wants to have a word with you

[–]Current_Year_Acct 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was essentially dead months, even years ago, depending on the sub. Now it's 100%, in writing, on the corporate level, dead.

[–]bobdobalina 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

reddit was taken over by leftists, commies and SJWs. Except for a few conservative subs, if you did not agree with hive mind, you were attacked and usually banned

there has been no free speech there for a long time

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can have freedom of speech as long as you don’t say anything that we don’t like.

Ministry of Truth

[–]cons_nc 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Should we go ahead and create a /s/WatchSaidItDie or too soon :p jk jk