Reddit is a US-based social media site which is centered around topic-specific communities called "subreddits." Users can submit text or image posts to be voted on in each community, and users can also comment and vote on comments. It is the eighth most visited website in the United States.[1]
Fears of censorship of certain communities have led to users looking for alternatives. For example, the /r/GenZedong subreddit's fears of being censored has led them to join Lemmygrad, a pro-communist instance of the FOSS alternative to Reddit, Lemmy.
Censorship
Reddit has deleted hundreds of thousands of accounts linked to the Russian, Iranian, and Chinese governments at the request of Western intelligence organizations. It does not ban accounts connected to Western capitalist governments.[1]
In August 2013, r/news moderator douglasmacarthur banned the Russian news outlet RT from the subreddit. r/politics soon banned many alternative media sources, including AlterNet.[2]
U.S. government connections
Reddit's director or policy, Jessica Ashooh, worked for the Atlantic Council, NATO's think tank. She supported U.S. imperialism in Syria and praised the absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia.[1]
From 2005 to 2015, Reddit received information requests from government agencies in 15 U.S. states. It agreed to hand over user information in 64% of U.S. government requests. 30% of the requests prohibited the website from notifying the users that their data had been accessed.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alan Macleod (2021-06-11). "Jessica Ashooh: The Taming of Reddit and the National Security Plant Tabbed to Do It" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-07-30. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
- ↑ Katie Rucke (2013-11-08). "Reddit Moderators Ban Alternative Media Outlets" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
- ↑ Lucas Mearian (2015-01-30). "Reddit Handed over User Info for 58% of Government Requests" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-01-17. Retrieved 2022-08-06.