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In the aftermath of the Snowden revelations in mid-2013, moderators at /r/technology configured filters to automatically censor posts containing "politicized" words, based on findings by creq. This censorship appears to be ongoing. The banned words include NSA, Comcast, Anonymous, CISPA, SOPA, Swartz, FCC, net neutrality, GHCQ, EFF, ACLU, and others.
The admins claim they simply configured their bots to delete "politicized" posts. Yet their filters (which were not announced or explained) effectively precluded meaningful discussion of contemporary issues. Could this reflect willing government collaboration by Reddit's admins, or might they have been served with an NSL to force compliance?
News coverage of the censorship is at the Daily Dot. A fuller list of banned words are available on pastebin. The reddit post reporting censorship on /r/rechnology.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 17 2014, @04:43PM
Back when there was the big shitstorm about Reddit's wholesale censoring [washingtonsblog.com] of the Snowden revelations, specifically ones which were relevant to the discussion, it didn't reek of some automated system innocently deleting offtopic posts - moderators were actively removing posts on /news and /worldnews, not just /technology.
So yes, it would seem that Reddit has been, if wasn't already from the start, co-opted by influence.
(Score: 2) by TK on Thursday April 17 2014, @06:45PM
Interesting. I was unaware. I unsubbed from news, worldnews and politics almost as soon as I made an account.
I would mod you informative if I could.
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