I don't think they're worried about Trump. He's not as much of a threat as they thought. They're more worried about an effective version of Trump who might come along via election or more likely "other means". This is all to prevent "Le next Hitler".
Many were predicting the tech monopolies would ratchet up their censorship in the pre-election stage to make up for dropping the ball in 2016. However, the blatant and unsubtle manner in which it is being done makes me wonder if it will backfire on the bergs.
I don't know where else to put this as I'm not aware of a thread for "shitlibs who put on ancap hats to defend censorship on the internet", so if anybody wants to point me in the right direction or move the post, please for the love of fuck do it. This isn't about Reddit itself so much as corporate takeover of the internet, making sites corporate-friendly under the visage of "preventing hate speech" or what the fuck ever, and shitlibs cheering as it happens in general. But here's an infodump for you guys, and a set of salient questions based upon it.
Anyone paying attention to this shit knows about the MATCH List thing, and how MasterCard and other financial institutions are using it as a back door blacklist for inconvenient speech on the internet especially post-SESTA/FOSTA and post-COPPA ruling. If you don't and need to get up to speed just Google it, because that's not part of the info I'm dumping here.
Who gives a fuck, right? Well, the state of media consolidation in the US is such that four companies own and control over 90% of all media consumed by Americans. That's an older infographic that doesn't take into account consolidation over the past four years: GE is no longer in the picture and that's NBCUniversal, NewsCorp isn't even on the map after divesting 21st Century Fox entertainment holdings to Disney, AT&T and Time Warner merged, and Viacom and CBS re-merged (which is pointless anyways, they're both owned by National Amusements). So we're left with a "big four" landscape: AT&T, Comcast, Disney, and ViacomCBS.
Well, what about FANG's you might ask? Surely this is about electronic freedoms, never mind how in the wake of the several adpocalypses Youtube has become increasingly corporatized, favorable to those four corporations' channels in recommendations and promotions, and increasingly hostile towards independent creators. What about Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm sensing a pattern. You might be saying, "yeah of course, these are major mutual funds and asset management firms, this is what they do", and you'd be correct. This also means they have a vested financial interest in these corporations' growth, and power to influence corporate policy.
If, say, MATCH List were to be abused to blacklist potential competition to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube as we saw with Gab, BitChute, Voat, and what will happen to Parler, the former benefits because they stay the only game in town. Or, alternatively, if the threat of financial blacklisting were to be weaponized against extant platforms like YouTube and Reddit, the media "big four" benefit because their oligopoly over content production and distribution is preserved.
So what happens when the same institutions have significant stake in all of the above? Does this not constitute a massive series of conflicted interests? Shareholders are the only people and institutions to which any and all of the above-listed media corporations are accountable, and the only overriding priority is to make profit. How is this in any way permissible, and are people who would support this really comfortable allowing Wall Street to declare itself the sole determiner of truth and free expression?
well you said everything that needs to be said about the subject, all I can say is thanks for the info? this is going to be useful to me though, thanks dude
Look at the whites in South Africa. They're only 10% and the hatred has only increased. Every rule anti-whites make is just a temporary thing that is to be discarded when the time is right. They won't stop hating whites and attacking them for wanting representation until whites are all gone. Fortunately white people are quickly learning this fact and are becoming more and more uncomfortable. I expected whites to wake up by 2040, but the way things are going in 2020 it might be as early as 2030.
I don't think they're worried about Trump. He's not as much of a threat as they thought. They're more worried about an effective version of Trump who might come along via election or more likely "other means". This is all to prevent "Le next Hitler".
Like I just got done pointing out, "le next Hitler" is already here, "he" ain't in the White House, and the "anti-fascists" are cheering for "him" because they've been brain wormed into it by TDS.
well you said everything that needs to be said about the subject, all I can say is thanks for the info? this is going to be useful to me though, thanks dude
No prob. Just please spread it. This shit is orders of magnitude more dangerous than bad orange man ever can be, at least IMO. This "hate speech" shit is a fuckin' side show and smoke screen.
So at the end, we should be generalizing to making sure MINORITIES are not harmed and have equal rights and affirmative action.
Africa is a shithole. and the %10 of whites there need to stand up and tell those people that they are a MINORITY and that a MINORITY'S life matter, and fight against it.
So at the end, we should be generalizing to making sure MINORITIES are not harmed and have equal rights and affirmative action.
Africa is a shithole. and the %10 of whites there need to stand up and tell those people that they are a MINORITY and that a MINORITY'S life matter, and fight against it.
I don't know what the situation is like there, but I doubt the whites there will have the same help from blacks that american blacks have from guilty white kids. Remember, the majority of the BLM movement is white.
just for the official announcement. As an actual fan of the CTH podcast, I’m glad to see their rancid subreddit get shut down and the hosts will be too (they fucking hate that subreddit, especially Amber)
edit: god damn I apparently missed a whole page, my bad if this is late
At the end, we need to be smart with our generalizations.
All Lives Matter is stupid. Because duh, all lives should matter, but they don't.
All races are racist just creates a bunch of story telling and "making-up bullshit" behavior.
All Minorities Matter I think is a good general terminology, and should be used more.
The majority has its say and has its power, and that's the problem within Humanity. Make sure you have regulations and rules set in place where the majority can't bully the minority such as the the %10 of whites in Africa, and you will solve the problem.
At the end, we need to be smart with our generalizations.
All Lives Matter is stupid. Because duh, all lives should matter, but they don't.
All races are racist just creates a bunch of story telling and "making-up bullshit" behavior.
All Minorities Matter I think is a good general terminology, and should be used more.
The majority has its say and has its power, and that's the problem within Humanity. Make sure you have regulations and rules set in place where the majority can't bully the minority such as the the %10 of whites in Africa, and you will solve the problem.
I don't know where else to put this as I'm not aware of a thread for "shitlibs who put on ancap hats to defend censorship on the internet", so if anybody wants to point me in the right direction or move the post, please for the love of fuck do it. This isn't about Reddit itself so much as corporate takeover of the internet, making sites corporate-friendly under the visage of "preventing hate speech" or what the fuck ever, and shitlibs cheering as it happens in general. But here's an infodump for you guys, and a set of salient questions based upon it.
Anyone paying attention to this shit knows about the MATCH List thing, and how MasterCard and other financial institutions are using it as a back door blacklist for inconvenient speech on the internet especially post-SESTA/FOSTA and post-COPPA ruling. If you don't and need to get up to speed just Google it, because that's not part of the info I'm dumping here.
Who gives a fuck, right? Well, the state of media consolidation in the US is such that four companies own and control over 90% of all media consumed by Americans. That's an older infographic that doesn't take into account consolidation over the past four years: GE is no longer in the picture and that's NBCUniversal, NewsCorp isn't even on the map after divesting 21st Century Fox entertainment holdings to Disney, AT&T and Time Warner merged, and Viacom and CBS re-merged (which is pointless anyways, they're both owned by National Amusements). So we're left with a "big four" landscape: AT&T, Comcast, Disney, and ViacomCBS.
Well, what about FANG's you might ask? Surely this is about electronic freedoms, never mind how in the wake of the several adpocalypses Youtube has become increasingly corporatized, favorable to those four corporations' channels in recommendations and promotions, and increasingly hostile towards independent creators. What about Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm sensing a pattern. You might be saying, "yeah of course, these are major mutual funds and asset management firms, this is what they do", and you'd be correct. This also means they have a vested financial interest in these corporations' growth, and power to influence corporate policy.
If, say, MATCH List were to be abused to blacklist potential competition to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube as we saw with Gab, BitChute, Voat, and what will happen to Parler, the former benefits because they stay the only game in town. Or, alternatively, if the threat of financial blacklisting were to be weaponized against extant platforms like YouTube and Reddit, the media "big four" benefit because their oligopoly over content production and distribution is preserved. And that, in turn, brings us back to the first point: who owns what shares of MasterCard, and therefore is in a position to influence how MATCH List is operated and used?
So what happens when the same institutions have significant stake in all of the above? Does this not constitute a massive series of conflicted interests? Shareholders are the only people and institutions to which any and all of the above-listed media corporations are accountable, and the only overriding priority is to make profit. How is this in any way permissible, and are people who would support this really comfortable allowing Wall Street to declare itself the sole determiner of truth and free expression?
After the 2011 protests where ethnic Russian nationalists were an important and effective presence, Putin moved to coopt nationalism. If you're the type of nationalist who doesn't like sucking Chechen cock, posting "n****r" with the asterisks on vk can send you logging in Siberia for 5 years.
Social media have always been controlled by (tech-savvy) social media companies who report to the FSB. News and comment sections, however, are monitored by RKN (telecom office: 1/3 bugfuck insane preppers, 1/3 desk jockeys, 1/3 faggots and whores)'s own employees. RKN's web crawler uses badly written regexps and can't process anything but Russian, and their assessors are poorfag Russian linguistics experts, so you can say anything in a comment section as long as it's not in Russian.
Fundraising and Financials
Reddit was valued at $3 billion in its latest round of funding that took place in February 2019. The company raised $300 million, led by a $150 million investment from Tencent Holding Ltd. (TCEHY). Other investors included Sequoia Capital, Fidelity, Tacit Capital, and Snoop Dogg. Reddit has raised $550.1 million in total funding to date.
The company boasts 430 million plus average monthly active users and 21 billion average screen views per month on its website. As of the end of March 2019 the company was on pace to post $119 million in U.S. ad revenues for the year and double revenues by 2021, according to a forecast by eMarketer. Following Reddit's latest round of funding, CNBC estimated that the company was pulling in an average revenue per user (ARPU) of approximately $0.30, far less than Twitter's ARPU of $9.48 and Facebook's $7.37 at the time.
[...] Recent Developments
Reddit signed a content and advertising deal with the National Football League (NFL) in September 2019. The league's players, executives, team personnel, and others associated with the NFL will take questions from Reddit's users via its "Ask Me Anything" format. The NFL will also produce a video series featuring the various guests. While Reddit is not charging the NFL a fee, both the company and the league will share in any revenue resulting from sponsorships associated with the videos
Let's bring this to the individual level: a relationship with lovers: aka, the fundamental idea of "brokering Trust". All humans create stories and create ideas about one other. Humans at the individual level do this with relationships by hearing what they say, and thus creating a "narrative" of a character. Hence why people get into abusive relationships and stay in them, and hence why people get so angry and hateful towards each other at the end of a marriage.
A group relationship is a regular relationship based off trust, but humans have this flaw with bringing up the past and putting the past into the present: aka, story telling and narrating about a group of people that is not themselves.
I know you all have created stories on how much of a reddit faggot I am, and I'm actually a EDF immigrant: I just prefer to shitpost and create chaos and be stupid sometimes lol.
I completely agree at the individual level, I'll check my privilege, listen to and accept as valid (believe is a tad strong) the experiences of those different from me, and work to address demonstrated material inequality. And I don't think I'm that atypical, even among conservatives, modulo some shibboleths, even if I do make the occasional shitpost on the farms to the contrary.
But that's not what this is about, and I think the collective/individual disconnect is at the core of what is so fucked up about the SJW movement, which uses strawman bullshit, propaganda, smear tactics, and censorship as a shield against criticism for their questionable policy which seldom has anything to do with race.
Why do we call things "racist?" It's not because they're factually wrong these days; they're often true or unfalsifiable. At the core it is just a demand to bow before the King, even if the King is still a rich white guy. Censorship *inherently* benefits the powerful because they possess the power to define, and we've reached a point where any criticism of anything labeled "anti-racist" is itself racist. This is a fully general justification for tyranny. Before that it was terrorism, or communism. It all boils down to an excuse to bomb countries halfway around the world and lock up anyone who asks if we've tried not doing that.
you guys are getting Deplatformed and marginalize, and that's causing a lot of anger. I'm sorry you're all going through this, and it sucks and it is not okay. I'm quite sure @Garth is the most angry has he has rated me dumb all this time lmao.
Y'all should have made a site outside of reddit after a certain point a LONG time ago, however, but now is the time: figure that shit out, and fight against deplatforming.
