I think it's disgusting that in the Western world, where freedom of speech and the free exchange of everything else is supposed to be a part of the foundation of the Western world and it is all being flushed down the toilet and replaced with Chinese like censorship. The hypocrisy is disgusting me and on top of that, destroying the few qualities of Western culture that made it somewhat respectable is now just leaving us with a culture with no Pros whatsoever but only Cons... If every positive quality is stripped from this society, then we are pretty much just left with a steaming pile of shit.
Media is being censored across the world. Reddit used to be a platform where one could post/discuss anything anonymously. Now it's becoming like Instagram and Facebook.
Reddit has been completely been taken over by control freaks who are afraid of triggering anyone.
It's because of advertising money. Most of the censorship you see on the internet is because of advertising money. Advertising companies are afraid of being affiliated with offensive content, and in turn you have sites also taking preemptive measures to attract those advertising companies – especially if they want to expand.
As far as Reddit goes, there's a ton that goes on behind the scenes. It's a propaganda machine. And even if they say something about those subreddits not aligning with their ethics and values, what they really mean is money.
You'd make an excellent point if we were talking about Youtube but Reddit? Nah, I just think Reddit has been taken over by a bunch of control freaks and cowards.
It's because "normies/sheep/whatever else you call non-nerds" weren't invested into it.
I feel this picture explains it best to what happened to the internet. I was around back then and remember a different place, if you take something like 4chan for example you'll know that for the most part it was really never good but after so many of the so called normies heard about it on social media like twitter and facebook and memes they saw it as the new way to be edgy and cool.
The best way to keep a community on the internet strong and "fun and chill" like you remember it is to increase the difficulty of access as much as possible without compromising too many others. Most of the people who ruined the internet for everyone are just people that are unable to even google their issues, I don't consider myself tech savy in the absolute slightest but I can still research and put effort into what I do and accomplish things online. You put that barrier of work that requires some level of intellect to do and you'll have yourself a good community that brings content rather than just 99% shitposting because shit posters dont bring content and dont want to do work so they wont bother even attempting to join the community, which is what most computers requires at least some level of effort back in the 90's and early 2000's.
You nailed it, exactly, 100%. I've been using the internet since the early 90s and the second it became more accessible to human beings, I saw a major influx of idiots and people who are basic in every way. There was a time, the internet was an exclusive playground for the eccentric and the nerds... Good times. :)
It's because of advertising money. Most of the censorship you see on the internet is because of advertising money. Advertising companies are afraid of being affiliated with offensive content, and in turn you have sites also taking preemptive measures to attract those advertising companies – especially if they want to expand.
As far as Reddit goes, there's a ton that goes on behind the scenes. It's a propaganda machine. And even if they say something about those subreddits not aligning with their ethics and values, what they really mean is money.
Yes, most subs on reddit are actually co opted by various groups pushing an agenda. Scary shit, actually. There's people paid to just post on reddit to leave only viewpoints they are paid to express and people paid to manipulate the sub reddits so certain posts are more easily seen by people.
