• Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
  • The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.
  • Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    5 hours ago

    Supporting Palestine: violent.
    Supporting Ukraine: violent.
    Suggesting Lemmy: believe or not, violent too

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    “Violent” needs scare quotes, because it’s obviously subjective and ripe for abuse.

        • soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          11·
          1 hour ago

          As long as you don’t censor us, which a decentralized Lemmy can’t do in comparison to Reddit.
          The government is way more worrying though.

          Hard to imagine that it was only a few years ago(, before E.Musk bought Twitter,) that we were denying the influence of governments on social media censorship, and said that “private companies aren’t censoring, because they’re not the government, if you don’t like this platform just change/leave”. It has changed and now we’ve quickly accepted that states should enforce (more )laws all over the/our internet. And many don’t see that our fact-checking is unilaterally biased, etc.

          Someone from programming.dev may have heard of the declaration of the independence of cyberspace , among others.

          • Rusty Shackleford@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            25 minutes ago

            Let me be absolutely clear.

            The opinions and concerns about “censorship”, and just about everything else, from “Whatabout-NATO/'Murica?” apologists and fellators for the CCP, Xi Jingping, Mao, Vladimir Putin, the USSR, Stalin, the DPRK, Che Guevara, Castro, Islamo-totalitarians, drug cartels, and <insertMurderousAuthoritarianTyrantsHere> are worth less than Marx and Engels’ flaming dickcheese.

            They can all pleasure themselves in their own puckered accelerationist bungholes with their Molotov-sippy-cups that they can barely lift out of their premium-outdoor-brand backpacks.

            No matter who’s “side” they claim to be on, never trust anyone who says, “I/We are in charge, forever.” Especially, the angsty edgelords at lemmy.ml.

    • modifier@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      11 hours ago

      It is just galling to me that some massive rich dweebs interpreted all of my favorite dystopian cyberpunk as a blueprint

  • Stormy1701@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24·
    11 hours ago

    Violent content is against Reddit rules. So why is the content not being removed and the poster banned?

    • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Because when a trap kills the rats you do not punish the bait in the rat trap.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11·
      11 hours ago

      It still drives engagement. Same for the subs that have been flooded with AI stories and bot responses. It can be marketed as engagement to advertisers.

        • dumblederp@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          9 hours ago

          I reckon it’s more that they need to be ‘seen’ to be doing something about it, but will nonetheless take the engagement as long as it doesn’t cause a stir. I mean they had jailbait and watchpeopledie as large subreddits for ages… until they started getting flack for it.

  • Photuris@lemmy.mlEnglish
    202·
    10 hours ago

    Reddit is now Fascist media. They will suppress talk of armed resistance, if (god forbid) it comes to that.