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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by SSLy on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:49AM (#13029374)
Um, conflating anarcho-capitalists with alt-right is passe. https://fee.org/articles/five-differences-between-the-alt-ri...
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:58AM (#13029412)
...You didn't get it.
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by SSLy on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:36PM (#13031531)
No, I did not. Mind explaining?
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:13PM (#13031766)
Don was talking about alt.right (obviously a play on alt-right: but probably also the alt-right news group, if there is one). However, the standard acronym expansion for the alt hierarchy on the usenet (it actually stands for alternative) is Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists: partly a running gag and partly because alt.* was (and still is) the wild west of the usenet: a lawless wasteland, with the occasional specks of civilization.
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by DanBC on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:16PM (#13031798)
> partly because alt.* was (and still is) the wild west of the usenet: a lawless wasteland, with the occasional specks of civilization.

...and even that was too restricted for some people, which is one of the reasons free.* was set up.

http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/faqs/free/

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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:48PM (#13032034)
For some people, any restriction is too much. It's the 4chan vs 8chan thing.
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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by DonHopkins on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:54PM (#13031646)
Go to alt.alien.vampire.flonk.fonk.flonk and ask if they are really aliens and what's a flonk.
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