- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
- The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.
- Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
Supporting Palestine: violent.
Supporting Ukraine: violent.
Suggesting Lemmy: believe or not, violent too“Violent” needs scare quotes, because it’s obviously subjective and ripe for abuse.
For profit media is state controlled. The state being the corporations.
It is just galling to me that some massive rich dweebs interpreted all of my favorite dystopian cyberpunk as a blueprint
Violent content is against Reddit rules. So why is the content not being removed and the poster banned?
It still drives engagement. Same for the subs that have been flooded with AI stories and bot responses. It can be marketed as engagement to advertisers.
Ah so violent content is banned unless it’s making Reddit cash. Then it’s fine.
I reckon it’s more that they need to be ‘seen’ to be doing something about it, but will nonetheless take the engagement as long as it doesn’t cause a stir. I mean they had jailbait and watchpeopledie as large subreddits for ages… until they started getting flack for it.
Lol people use that website
Reddit is now Fascist media. They will suppress talk of armed resistance, if (god forbid) it comes to that.
Is there hope for digg’s rebirth?
Yeah actually old Reddit founder and another similar dude buying it and refreshing it soon, apparently.