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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by wait_a_minute on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:38PM (#24944797)
It does run in both directions, but notice which side has the predominant position and representation at the top tech companies that are doing the information policing. It's certainly happening in conservative communities, but the established information channels are almost all controlled or dominated by the left. And they never call out their own. When was the last time you saw reddit for example shut down propaganda, say, on r/sino? Or prevent it from affecting other subreddits? It's blatantly obvious that pro far left astroturfing and gaslighting are the norm on most of the popular social media.
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by NeoFeznet on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:50PM (#24944920)
I mean didn’t Reddit literally ban ChapoTrapHouse during the same wave they purged /r/TheDonald?
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by wait_a_minute on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:55PM (#24944997)
Meanwhile r/politics and r/worldnews are completely one-sided, with far-left brigading being the norm and questionable accounts/gilding spreading garbage all the time. I'm pretty left by American standards but it's still garbage.
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by deepakhj on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:18PM (#24947769)
There's a big difference between r/politics and people downvoting and r/conservative which insta bans you and has turned into the new Donald.
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by _-david-_ on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:05PM (#24948836)
The purpose of /r/conservative is for conservatives to talk about conservatism. If somebody is not conservative then /r/conservative is not the best place for them.
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by lemonberry on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:43PM (#24944845)
I don't disagree with your assessment, but I don't know enough about it to take a strong position on it. That said, I'm concerned about the idea of policing information. On the other hand the amount of manipulation I see via media, on both the right and the left, has me concerned too.
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by humaniania on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:45PM (#24944865)
If it were so "blatantly obvious" then it should be easy for someone to provide statistical evidence of such behavior. Why don't you provide any references to support your claims?
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by wait_a_minute on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:54PM (#24944981)
This really would require these sources to be more transparent about where accounts are coming from and who is spending money on their platforms, and why would they be if they agree with what is happening? But at least we know how many accounts they delete.

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-removed-130-accounts-linke...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/01/20/154481/cybersecu...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/twitter-d...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-shuts-down-200000-chin...

You can find many more sources like these. They do also delete accounts from far right troll farms, but the amount of astroturfing and gaslighting with the intention of pushing civil unrest, especially during this election, is palpable. Right now I'm looking at Reddit where garbage posts are somehow getting massively upvoted and gilded (with real money), pushing encouragement for civil unrest and paranoia about our democratic processes and whether or not they work.

It's state-sponsored. I don't have the keys to Reddit's back-end so I can't prove it, but there are plenty of sources on nation states trying to spread this type of garbage. Proceed to Google to find further sources beyond the ones I already gave.

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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by humaniania on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:08PM (#24946912)
That does nothing to support your narrative of "It's blatantly obvious that pro far left astroturfing and gaslighting are the norm on most of the popular social media."
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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by taxicab on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:30PM (#24945966)
The 10 top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages are almost always right to far-right. Whoever is behind this liberal conspiracy must be really bad at their job.

https://twitter.com/facebookstop10

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Re:Mailchimp outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” co... by wait_a_minute on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:38PM (#24946067)
Or they're spending their money on the "front page of the internet" like Reddit. See the links I shared in my other post for examples of clear nation-state activity linked to Reddit and Twitter. Facebook certainly does skew more to the right, but note that it's popular verified personalities like Franklin Graham or Trump himself who are getting those likes/hits. Whereas with these other sources you never know who is behind the accounts (is it Russia? China?). This being said I will not excuse this behavior from the right or from Facebook.
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