Reddit has engaged of a campaign of totalitarian political censorship and is clearly government controlled information gatekeeper so it is time to say Goodbye.

After being a member for nearly two years, I have been banned from posting from my favorite reddit forum /r/conspiracy so goodbye Reddit.

By now the widespread reports of political censorship on Reddit makes it pretty clear that Reddit has been infiltrated by government gatekeepers.

As the Guardian reported, the feds are  manipulating the social media.

I first noticed the disturbing trend on Reddit last fall soon after the Occupy Wall Street protests started and since then getting worse.

As you can see I am no longer allowed to post in my favorite forum, /r/conspiracy/

I could simply create a new account, but it is not worth my time as decent story that gets posted therefrom the alternative media soon gets deleted as soon as it makes it to the front of one of the popular forums.

It’s not just me either. Others who post my stories have them deleted as well. Here’s some recent stories sumbitted by others.

/r/worldnews [spam filtered] Norway Terrorist Invokes Bush Doctrine – Claims Attacks Were Preemptive Self-Defense (blog.alexanderhiggins.com)

/r/conspiracy [removed] EPA Approves ‘Agent Orange’ Pesticide (blog.alexanderhiggins.com)

/r/darknetplan [spam filtered] New legislation proposes jail terms for those who posses or distribute web security software software, spoof IP addresses or participate in hacking activities. The law will merge laws in individual nations across Europe and allow all offenders to be prosecuted under t (blog.alexanderhiggins.com)

/r/worldnews [spam filtered] Japan Being Pushed Into Revolt. The government has engaged in a campaign to cover up information about radiation and has set the food regulations to save the producers instead of the consumers. Countless petitions, demonstrations, and discussions have been ignored. (blog.alexanderhiggins.com)

/r/Economics [removed] Dallas Fed: Top 5 Wall Street Banks Own More Than 50% Of US GDP

/r/worldpolitics [removed] Iran Attack Spirals Out Of Control, 100s Of US Soldiers Die – Pentagon War Game

/r/worldnews [removed] Ocean Radiation Plume Hits Hawaii From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown

It’s not just my site either. Washingtons Blog, Activist Post and many, many others repeatedly face censorship.

Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content

Posted on February 23, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

Censorship By Top Social Media Websites

[Update: Another moderator has confirmed to me that davidreiss666 says that all of Washington's Blog submissions should be banned.]

Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups.

Digg was caught censoring stories which were controversial or too critical of the government. See this and this.

Now, even social media site Reddit – which helped launch the anti-Sopa Internet blackout and publicize GoDaddy’s slimy Sopa support – is doing the same thing.

Read The Rest…

And see this..

Social Media Giants Set Up “Free Speech Zones” to Censor Dissent

Posted on March 1, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

Social Media Taking a Page Out of George W. Bush’s Playbook on “Free Speech Zones”

Preface:  Reddit is the 119th most popular website worldwide on the Internet, which is more popular than Digg.  Because news stories are submitted and voted up social media style, it used to be one of the best sources on the web for alternative news.

I am personally one of the top 100 or so posters to Reddit. Specifically, I have submitted many stories written by other authors on other websites, and have more than 150,000 “karma” points.

As such, I am saddened to see Reddit go the way of Digg and other sites which have been ruined by censorship.

The Bush administration gutted free speech rights by limiting protesters to “free speech zones” which were often miles away from the meetings or conventions being protested, and well away from the media spotlight.

[...]

As just one example, posts from this website are being censored by Reddit. Specifically, a friend of this site who has submitted stories to Reddit has received the following messages of rejection from a Reddit moderator named davidreiss666:

from davidreiss666 via /r/worldnews/

WashingtonBlog is not something we consider a good source for r/Worldnews.

from davidreiss666 via /r/worldnews/

Please submit that story from an alternate domain. Thank you.

And another moderator named Maxion:

from Maxion via /r/worldnews/

I am sorry but this submission is not appropriate for this subreddit.

There are certainly also more open-minded moderators at Reddit. But a couple of censors can squash discussion on entire topics.

Why Are They Censoring?

[...]

Read The Rest…

Reddit censorship is constantly a hot topic on Reddit, in fact the top stories right now in /r/conspiracy are about reddit censorship.

And it is not just the alternative media that is being censored.

To the contrary, there is a theme with the kind of stories that get deleted – they are mostly  critical or embarrassing to the U.S. government with a smaller number of posts being deleted that don’t support other political agendas.

This is all evidenced by viewing the subreddit the Mods Are Killing Reddit where some clever fellow set up a bot to monitor every story being deleted from reddit.

Check the stories out yourself and you can see the clear campaign of pro-government political censorship.

In any case, Reddit will soon go the way of Digg and other failed social networking sites.

I await the arrival of a new site to replace Reddit that encourages the discourse that made Reddit what is today.

Clearly the owners haven’t learned the lesson of other social bookmarking sites that attempted to engage in political censorship.

Source: Goodbye Reddit – Your Totalitarian Censorship Is Out Of Control ©
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