buyfromEU hits 1200 upvotes and 80k views in under an hour, gets removed for "excessive promotion"(lemm.ee)

Sure I get your first few sentences and even agree there that reddit doesn’t want positive talk of competition, but what I’m failing to see is where China comes in to play here beyond the fact they have some ownership stake in reddit. Do you think they’re driving this policy, if so what makes you think it’s them and not any of the other 100 rich assholes with ownership stakes?

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JokeDeity@lemm.ee

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The people who have held board positions over the last decade or so, the particular bias toward preventing Chinese dissent getting too big on any sub when others are allowed to get massive, even violent hate groups like white supremacists have better luck with administration, and the ever more identical content policies of Reddit and the CCP.

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zaperberry@lemmy.ca

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6 days ago

Hi, I don’t think it’s crazy to think the CCP owns (or rather controls) it, but I don’t think it even matters. They’ve clearly chosen to operate a certain way.

Big tech companies (fuck you Reddit) and governments will shout about the CCP and how nobody can trust that their privacy is respected on Chinese platforms (not disputing this), or how they censor dissenting speech, but then you see how those same invasive measures are implemented in a more subtle way on non-Chinese platforms.

I have an easier time imagining that it’s just lessons learned from the CCP and others regardless of the organization’s (fuck you Reddit) nationality. It’s a matter of money, or power, or both, because they (fuck you Reddit) have no values and will bend the knee to authoritarians so that they can operate in those countries and feed off of their people too.

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