The World Socialist Web Site was removed from the r/politics whitelist in June without notification or explanation. The Reddit site, which could be described as a “bulletin board” form of internet technology, is organized into user-created subreddit categories that contain content relevant to a specific topic, such as news, science, movies, fitness, etc.Īmong the powers of subreddit moderators is management of the links “whitelist.” This is a list of internet domains from which users are allowed to freely post links to the subreddit. Those items that receive the largest number of upvotes end up on the site’s front page. Other users then vote this content up or down to determine what is most popular or what content will rise to the top of a particular subreddit. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, texts and images. Retweeting Damon’s comment, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, a prominent critic of internet censorship, warned, “Welcome to our language-policed future.”Īs a social media platform with 330 million users, Reddit is by far the most popular news aggregation and web content rating website on the internet. He’s a fascist, plain and simple.”Īt approximately 2:30 PM, r/politics moderators intervened, labeling the WSWS article as coming from an “unacceptable source.” The subreddit discussion was quickly terminated and the link preview of the article removed and replaced with a box stating, “Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/politics: Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose.”Īndre Damon, the article’s co-author, remarked on Twitter, “Only ‘civil’ comments about the Great Leader are allowed on Reddit.” One of the top comments said, “It’s about time the media started calling it what it is. By 1:30 PM, the WSWS article had received over 9,000 upvotes and more than 600 comments, the majority of which supported the WSWS’s assessment of Trump’s speech. “Trump runs for Führer” was quickly read by thousands of Reddit users. I think these casual and single issue or flight-of-the-moment people play a bizarre role in our elections.On Friday, the World Socialist Web Site article “ Trump runs for Führer” was censored and removed by Reddit moderators after it received over 9,000 upvotes and was promoted to the site’s front page.Ī link to the article, which characterized the president’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention as a fascistic tirade, was posted to the subreddit r/politics at 7:10 a.m. These people may claim to be independent and their political engagement may be all over the map, when they do enter the political fray. There may be this other category of very casual political actor whose choices in elections are rather ill-informed. I'm sure there are examples of that on both sides. That may have essentially happened with "defund the police." Though currents of that are still prominent within the Democratic party, they do seem to have toned their message down a bit. Though, if there is enough backlash of the policy within the general public, the party on the wrong side of the issue (politically speaking) will often amend their view or take a more neutral stance. The other party will usually find itself putting their party in opposition to the policy. Most issues will have enough talk and passion for them that they seem to be coopted into one party or another. When push comes to shove they either vote with them or vote for some other random candidate (perhaps of the opposite party) because of one issue.Įven single issue voters do not seem to make that much sense. In the end, the vast majority of these people's beliefs still will align with one party or another. Are proclamations of being independent mostly hollow? Do people who proclaim independence really desire one set of beliefs and political choices over another?įar too often claims of being an independent seem to come from people wishing to distance themselves from a party whose beliefs they generally hold but they dislike the party or certain positions and therefore claim independence.
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