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Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com)
Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, today admitted to editing several comments that criticized him on the site. He made the admission on Reddit, where he posts under the username Spez. CNET adds: Huffman got a lot of flak from members of the The_Donald, a subreddit for supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, after Reddit banned the Pizzagate subreddit. Pizzagate was dedicated to a debunked conspiracy theory linking Hillary Clinton to a paedophile ring. In response, he edited comments reading "fuck Spez" to instead be directed at moderators of the The_Donald subreddit. "I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It's been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff," he wrote. "As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly." Huffman added: "Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won't do this again."
Debunked by who?
But what else has he edited and not fessed up to?
...of Usenet is of course, "you do not talk about Usenet." I'm breaking that. Sorry.
More importantly in this case, Second Rule of Usenet is "Usenet can't be subverted by its owner because, as a decentralized service, it doesn't have one." And that's why it needs to be supported instead of centralized shit like Reddit!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
The Dems call all republicans racists because they are republican. Now the Republicans can fight back and call all Democrats pedophiles. In today's media led world there is in fact nobody who is not either a pedophile, a racist, or a nazi.
Do you like to brush you teeth and treat animals kindly? Hitler did that too. You must be a Nazi and want to kill 6 million jews.
Did you say hello to that black man? Well you did that in a patronizing way that did not reaffirm the individualism of your respective races, so you are a racist.
I am all for linking democrats to pedophilia because they like eating pizza. This makes a lot of sense to me.
Political argument is all about calling your opponent the most names. The guy who calls the other the most names wins the fight and go on to higher office.
The other aspect of political debate is editing your opponents message to make it say exactly what you meant for him to say. There is nothing wrong with what this guy did. He was just playing realpolitik. I mean why run a site like Reddit if you can't use it to establish a correct political environment and quash discussion.
Spezgate?
"Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won't do this again."
Huffman might not know it, but hes just torpedoed reddit as a source of valid independent discussion by exposing the ability to not only edit posts he didnt author, but to inject a political message in his favour. Im sure Stalin is applauding from beyond the grave.
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Pizzagate must never be spoken of
Remember the vast right wing conspiracy where the then First "Lady" had to tell us herself that there was absolutely no truth to the terrible lies that the right was saying about her husband, the honorable William Jefferson Clinton? And she certainly would know better than anyone if the rumors were true or not, she was not only right there but she was also the smartest woman in the country if not the whole world. It's just like that. Complete bunk. The perpetrators deny it and that should be good enough for anyone on the far left.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
but doesn't apologize...
countries that don't have freedom of speech, such as the UK
The UK doesn't have absolute freedom of speech. But then, neither does any other country.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
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For all practical intent and purpose, all BBS and reddit like can be edtable by default. in fact you have to spend money to add security , encryption, and ensure non editability. Unless it is a selling point, you should always assume that everything is editable to match whatever goals political or not.
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This *should* be the end of Reddit. No post can ever be reliably attributed to it's author again.
I suppose this is what I get for not RTFA, but the CEO admitted to doing it, obliquely mocked the people pissed at him for doing it, and never apologized? So not only do we have social media moguls decrying "fake news" but now we have social media moguls actually manufacturing it.
The UK has enough libel tourism due to restrictive legal views on speech that it's okay to say that the UK doesn't have freedom of speech (unless you live in the UK, of course).
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He actually cares about that? Personally I couldn't give a damn if the entire online community hates me. What power do they have? Remember the online campaign to find the boko haram girls? So far not one has been rescued. A few have escaped on their own, no thanks to facebook. And anyone remember the Joe Kony campaign of 2012? That dude is still out there in Africa doing his thing .. not brought to justice. The whole combine online community is less of a threat to anyone than my cat when he takes a dump.
MSM said it's bullshit, case closed. Nothing to see here, move along.
The NYT is a reputable news source with a long history of posting accurate information. Places reporting about pizza are typically conspiracy theory sites full of fully debunked stories. It's always hard to prove a negative, but in this case the burden of evidence falls on the pizzagate lovers.
exactly what, a collection of gullible idiots
Which refers to the people that believe NYT's non-dismissal.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Because reddit has realised that angry, toxic crazies are making it miserable for the more sane majority - yet choosing to defend the crazies from the sane majority of Trump supporters
You mean the crazies that have stolen cars just for being white owned ("We caught a Trump!") or vandalized for having a Trump sticker (where a silver Mustang was burned & spray-painted)? Or would you like to talk about the crazies in UNC Chapel Hill that called for actions against Pence?
There went your narrative with those pesky facts.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
At this point, I'm going to believe TASS before the NYT.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Spirit cooking debunked. Not that it will make the slightest bit of difference to someone living in the loonyverse.
http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/
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A) It's funny you'd link to the Washington Post, because they've never fessed up about this:
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2699
B) The primary excuse is "it's just art" and that Podesta wasn't able to attend that one, as if that somehow makes it better. Never mind Abramovi saying on Reddit that it's only art when done publicly and this was a private performance (but who knows, maybe an admin edited that in there...). And yes, Podesta appears to believe in that, how else do you explain the attachment on this email which is a reference to the myth of Osiris and the birth of Hecate?
I mean, just look at what even the WaPo acknowledges that Spirit Cooking is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsJLNGVJ7E
When the allegation is that someone is into some really loony stuff, you don't really "debunk" that by saying yes, they are, but they weren't able to attend that one time.
Or to put it a snarky way, by modifying their headline: "No, John Podesta didn’t drink bodily fluids at a secret Satanist dinner, he was unable to attend that time. Marina Abramovi misses him."
That's probably because you've been reading propaganda from the alt-right/white supremacists.
While you approve of places that support racists like the BLM and the SPLC.
The NYT's been fishwrap tier "journalism" for quite a long time.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
The angry, toxic crazies are you.
You mean the crazies that have stolen cars just for being white owned ("We caught a Trump!") or vandalized for having a Trump sticker (where a silver Mustang was burned & spray-painted)? Or would you like to talk about the crazies in UNC Chapel Hill that called for actions against Pence?
Interesting to see that facts get modded troll. But then they blew their modpoints.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
It's only been whitewashed by friendlies in the media.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
BLM has committed acts of racism towards whites, if not sanctioning violence done in its name.
The SPLC harbors racist views by refusing to classify the BLM as a hate group. In turn, the SPLC smears their critics with such labels.
Martin Luther King Jr. would be disappointed to see such racism in this era, even if towards white individuals.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.