maybe this is odd but i just have to ask, do you consider reddit usage to be the sign of a civilized democracy?

qwerty456127 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I consider banning it uncharacteristic to such. I can hardly consider a state where people are not allowed to access Reddit (as well as HN, Wikipedia or StackExchange) freely and anonymously a healthy civilized democracy. It can still be a very civilized society in general but tightening control on the people like this indicates the government is going slippery slope.

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newyankee 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Many national subreddits are taken over by power hungry mods who now have behind the scene help from nation-states. Despite ample evidence and other subreddits highlighting consistent systemic biases there is no way to remove mods or change policies. I understand it is difficult to make it completely unbiased as subjectivity and a lot of other factors will influence what counts are right or wrong in that scenario, and mods are not even paid either. But then this always made it ripe for influence from other areas as a part of information warfare and here we are with the outcome

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skinnymuch 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I’d think it doesn’t specifically mean anything for civilized or democracy or slippery slope to block a bunch of western sites.

	▲	qwerty456127 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The grammar is our enemy here. Blocking a website may be Okay. Blocking a person willing to access it is not.

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AdrianB1 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reddit, civilized and democracy are not strongly correlated. Free speech and civilized, they are.

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skirge 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

reddit makes no harm, thus there is no reason to block it.

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skinnymuch 4 days ago | parent [-]

Reddit is a western American site while western hegemony exists. There’s always a reason for the global south to block western sites/companies

	▲	qwerty456127 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure - the reason is the want more control over their people, they want to surveil them (hence blocking Signal), they want them to only read or express "correct" texts and prevent them from participating in open loosely-moderated discussions (hence blocking Reddit).
	▲	int_19h 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wouldn't want comrades to get cooties from reading icky things?