• SabinStargem
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    12 hours ago

    Reddit is going heavy on censoring the thought of protest. For example, I suggested throwing rotten fruit, eggs, and using a megaphone to bother JD Vance at his residence. Because, bluntly, ‘polite’ protest misses the whole bloody point of protest. It is all about making the people in power feel uncomfortable, and to warn them if they keep it up, people will open the 4th box.

    I got banned, which will end in three days. But more importantly, it has convinced me: Reddit is controlled by those who don’t understand nor value the 1st Amendment, and why it is crucial for preventing the 2nd Amendment from being exercised.

    While it sucks to harass people, the alternative if things progress further is much worse.

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      9 hours ago

      When it grew exponentionally, the regime intervened as they did with Facebook and others.
      Long before Trump.
      All MSM is controled and social media is no different when it reaches a substancial audience.
      The hard truth still many don’t want to hear:
      Free speech is an illusion, only allowed if you scream into the void.
      Anything else they will manipulate or sabotage.
      TikTok is the latest example.
      You can expect the same here eventually, while the nature of it makes it more difficult the platform will be flooded with bots trying to control the narrative.

      https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/

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        2 hours ago

        The Fediverse is our best chance at resisting our social media being controlled. People need to be made aware of that.

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          11 minutes ago

          It’s pretty crazy. I saw a post on reddit about an article that was talking about the fediverse. I kid you not, 120 comments, 90% of those comments completely bashing it. “iT’s bRokEn, iTs bugGy, eW iT loOks likE sOoo oUtdatEd”. Literally not even giving it a single chance. I’ve been on lemmy for about… 3 days now? Absolutely not regretting it.