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According to /u/Spez, Reddit CEO, the reports of messages edited without any user consent or knowledge are correct as he admits to have done it so himself:
Hey Everyone,
Yep. I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It's been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff. As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. As the CEO, I shouldn't play such games, and it's all fixed now. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won't do this again.
Fuck u/spez.
The edits were made in a thread linked from the Washington Post which described the recent ban of the /r/pizzagate subreddit which tried to uncover child-molesters and recently moved to voat.co.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @11:07PM
Such "great" commentary from EF and Runaway, its impossible to have a middle ground with some people on this site. Even condemning the censorship wasn't enough. So many times the conservative base has stated "its a corporation its their job to only care about profits" but now that the censorship is treading on your toes (not specifically any user, I don't care to spend hours finding who said it) suddenly its evil and must be stopped! That comment covers all the various fake news / censorship stories that have been floating through here.
If you've never actually used a service fully then you are not qualified to comment on it as a whole. Reddit has a TON of subgroups that can be very specific, and a lot of people get very valuable info / discussions from it. However, it is definitely part of the propaganda machine with corporate users shilling products as if it is "original content" and not a marketing ploy, along with outright censorship. This sadly is standard for a lot of popular web services and my call for legislation is the next proper step we'll have to take.
If we as a society can't come to agreement on how to legislate such censorship then we're left with joining communities that align with our values. Even with some of the outright garbage (in my opinion) that floats through here and derails discussion I still keep coming back because I value that freedom to spew. Even most of the garbage comments here would be top of the list on the "popular" reddit groups, but the more specific sub-reddits often have truly valuable commentary.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 26 2016, @11:18PM
So instead of posting on a niche Mongolian patesserie forum (don't bother telling us what to do, we have our minds made up already) you could be advocating freedom of speech on Reddit, where minds are much more impressionable.
Come on, Fido, go ahead and make life better for the rest of us, will 'ya?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @11:42PM
Don't mistake, I don't use reddit except for time wasting, I don't have an account or participate in the discussions. Doesn't mean I'm unable to see through your veil of hate and stupidity. I advocate freedom of speech everywhere, whereas you simply spread hate and anger with the occasional good point.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 27 2016, @12:35AM
You weren't your mama's brightest son, were you?
I'm not a right wing conservative Republican. I disagree with censorship. In THIS CASE, my toes weren't stepped on at all. In OTHER CASES, the bastards have infringed on my own rights. And, you know what? Most often, it's a left leaning site.
For all of Fox New's faults, those ignorant bastards have never censored me. They've shouted me down, and drowned me out, but they don't delete or edit my posts. That whole authoritarian trip with censorship is primarily a left-wing, SJW, politically correct thing. But, thanks for playing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @03:33AM
Looking in the mirror again? Or just speed reading making you think you understand something because you read words?
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:27AM
I mean, look at this site. We don't even delete MikeeUSA's posts (or mine when I go full retard). If comments are being edited by people who aren't the poster, that tells me that I can't trust anything posted to Reddit as at least being somebody's authentic opinion. I'd say Reddit is free to do it; it's just a massive blow to any credibility that site might have had in the way of controversial commentary. I gather from previous comments that Reddit has other uses, which I guess if that's what they want to be, more power to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @05:25PM
Which is what I was saying. There is still value in the site, but people should be aware that the admins are malicious authoritarian dickbags. That was apparently too hard for the other two in this thread to parse. "Whaaa? You can have two somewhat conflicting opinions at the same time??"