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Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ... by lettergram on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:56PM (#27955472)
I’ve watched Reddit devolve into mostly bots with shills these days...

First they banned many communities and users who was right leaning or even moderate in the past two years.

Then you just have an echo chamber plus propaganda and bots are everywhere.

Finally, Reddit is the whole world, not the US. Many of the US specific boards were more right leaning and have been banned.

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Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:41AM (#27956401)
"Right leaning", really? Or far-right extremists who conspire to support or defend attempts of coup d'état?
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Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ... by raxxorrax on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:29AM (#27957401)
The Viking really seems to have caused some traumata.

If that is your excuse to compromise on freedom of expression, than you don't support it in the first place. Just be honest with it then.

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Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ... by leereeves on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:12AM (#27958040)
Have you completely forgotten 2020? After a year in which forcefully occupying government buildings was regarded as legitimate protest; a year with over 500 riots, for which arrested rioters were generally not prosecuted; Democrats have no credibility when they complain about the right occupying one government building.

What you've done there is pure partisanship: defining "the other side" by the worst among them while ignoring the behavior of the worst among your own side.

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Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ... by baud147258 on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:53AM (#27957189)
most were already banned at this point
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Re:The Assange case is collapsing but it remains a travesty ... by l332mn on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:26PM (#27964981)
Reddit is definitely not the whole world. It's heavily dominated by people from the US and western europe, and heavily biased towards the the mainstream western propaganda narrative. Reddit is an active target for propagandists (i.e. intelligence communities). Votes and recommendations for news articles are not at all based purely on interest and activity, it's being pushed by actors with various agendas.
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