Reddit's actively burying the Zuckerberg testimony (xpost)

20  2018-04-10 by JDBThrowaway999

Even though it's happening live, Zuck's testimony has been pushed off of the front page of r/politics. Not on r/news. Could only find it on the front page of r/technology, heavily downvoted.

Something fucked up's going on, and Reddit needs to answer for censoring real news from it's site.

Silicon Valley is a cancer. I would like to see Telecom execs at Verizon and AT&T, Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Jack Dorsey, Susan Wojcicki, u/spez, and I'm sure many more punished for what they've done to the free internet, but it won't happen. We live in hell. Aaron Swartz rolls in his grave.

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It's all a show. They are trying to garner support feds regulating social media.

It's actually been quite revealing in topics unrelated to this hearing's purpose

It was linked to r/politics several times, so I'm not sure it's being censored at all

Pushed off front page of r/politics. Big news usually gets "stickied."

1/3 of posts in /new on r/politics are about Zuckerberg, as of two minutes ago.

2 hours of testimony and not one makes the front? https://imgur.com/a/vozdy

They would rather discuss Trump's lawyer. It's no secret that discussion is controlled on that page.

I had to scroll down pretty far to find one while browsing /hot. You're right. They're not censoring posts directly, but rather pushing other stories to cover both this story and Syria.

My front page has the story twice.

Sometimes people forget there's a check box in their preferences:

don't show me submissions after I've upvoted them (except my own)
don't show me submissions after I've downvoted them

could be you've just hidden them from yourself?

nope.

Did you check the hamper? Sometimes I leave things in my pockets and they fall into the hamper.

I dont have it either... and a couple of people have confirmed on chat groups that they dont have it also. Pretty strange...

Since if you have people confirming it is not here via chat, and someone confirming it is there right here, who are you going to believe?

I'm also seeing it as #11 in politics now.

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Give it time.

This isn't big news. You guys are overestimating how much people care about this.

Some 'gentleman's agreement' to not shine a spotlight on negative news about the Silicon Valley heads?

Also burying Syria

It's crazy. Silicon Valley needs to be broken up.

What does this mean exactly?

It means the companies need to be broken up into pieces using antitrust law, which is what FDR did to break up the big banks before WW2 and what happened to Ma Bell in the 70s after they became the only functioning telecom. There is precedent!

bo-ring

wow what a well thought out and articulate response. Were all in a better place now thanks to your insightful comment and hot opinions.

It seems there's no monopoly, just government infiltration into all major tech companies.

Facebook and Google own 90% of online advertising.

Got a source? I believe it. Hell, I'd believe 99%. Just curious.

Those companies are essentially arms of the government. And the government sure as shit isn't going to disassemble such a lucrative population control tool.

more like the government is an arm of these companies now.

You can't rely on the government to break these companies up. The government has positive control of these companies, and these companies serve a very important function to the government.

No, I don't have an actual answer.

Decentralization. Crypto time.

yeah, let trump do it lol

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That's the real story. We literally have WW3 about to light off, and not a peep on /r/all or /r/popular. My post over at /r/worldpolitics is downvotes to zero:

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/8bdcya/defining_moment_for_putin_stand_up_to_usisrael/

abiut half hour in since the announcement to get ready broke, and you’re right ... I can’t find anything in my usual subs . Weird

It has literally been all over r/news r/worldnews and r/politics for the past week. A simple search shows that.

And suddenly, when the US is about to go in, it's gone silent.

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Nothing even close to /r/all or /r/popular. This should be dominating the site.

Why would it be dominating? Not a whole lot of substance came from it, he was questioned about privacy and denied a lot of it, not surprising anyone. It made it to the front page of news, worldnews, technology, politics and more like it has done since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, almost daily. You can't miss posts about facebook all over reddit the past few weeks. If """they""" are trying to censor it they're doing a really terrible job.

Good lord. Clearly I'm saying imminent WW3 should be dominating -- NOT Zuckerberg.

Yeah shit I was commenting in another section and got mixed up. All the headlines about Syria have been on the frontpage since the alleged attack, hasn't really been an update in the last few hours so it got buried.

Yeah, it isn't anywhere because he confirmed Fabo is working with Mueller, which begs the question, Which other platform is too?

All the major ones, I think

There’s no choice that’s more logical. All of heads of the social media sites want Trump out of office. They’re probably sending Muller data he didn’t ask for.

Lol yeah Trump is the real victim here

I intentionally didn’t say anything of that nature to avoid comments like yours.

Seemed pretty implied my man

It was not

Of course they are, Mueller's team probably talked to them about /r/TD. That's why it's still open, it's a honeypot now.

A honeypot for what, memes and shitposts?

Russian interference in the 2016 election? I'm not part of the investigating team so I wouldn't know for sure.

Finally, a honeypot I can understand.

Well, it became a honeypot when Reddit started gutting original mods, then there were a series of assaults on the sub, and a protest which made people jump ship to Voat or off Reddit completely, etc.

I can't help but imagine Zuck is being thrown under the bus so he'll resign as CEO and new CIA-CEO can be hired.

Congress is throwing him softballs. It's despicable. They're all in his pocket.

yeah I caught a little bit of it at lunch-- senator was asking him "would you tell us the names of some people you've emailed this week?" cue laugh track

iirc, from another headline, he's given money to something like 80% of them

Yeah....the entire room laughed after Cruz was done talking with him.....so weird.

I don't doubt they're throwing soft balls, but i would bet good money that a lot of them don't even have the most basic grasp of technology and barely understand the situation at hand.

They've been bribed.

This is neither here nor there but, damn, do softballs actually hurt!

I got banned from the SF sub for saying take his name off of SFGH. That and I called someone a dickhead

Zuckerberg should be in prison. Let San Francisco continue to devolve into the world's most expensive slum. Homelessness and feces surrounded by millionaires living in 100 year old buildings. What a treat.

Breaking: Reddit is owned and run by literal cancer lords

It's on my frontpage.

Could only find it on the front page of r/technology, heavily downvoted.

TIL 93% upvoted is heavily downvoted.

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But, but, his narrative! You are totally destroying it! You monster!

I couldn't find a popular post on politics, so he's right about that. I wouldn't have even known this was happening unless I saw this post in conspiracy

It's there, #15 for me right now

Weird they just released a new pointless layout that is horrendous, and the little green lock says "verified by digicert inc", when I go to the new layout, it tells me my connection isn't secure.

Just put the word Trump in the title and it will hit the front page.

fucking this, the whole reason this all blew up was the T word.

Ive had no trouble finding coverage on Reddit of zuck. Ive seen almost nothing about Syria in the past few days

Compelling testimony. He gets shaky whenever there's a suggestion of government involvement. Some of the Senators being fed questions to push his AI agenda.

Some of the Senators are clearly being fed questions.

Seriously they were asking for AI censorship...what were the name she of the reps that pushed it?

Are you kidding me?

What is with this gas lighting? Take a look at the front page and tell me that reddit is burring the testimony. If anything it's the polar opposite.

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CIA owned reddit wants complete control of facebook. He must have denied them access at one point and they got mad.

What subreddit are they coming out of? That's the important thing

r/all is littered with zuckerberg posts

They are all making fun of the booster cushion or him looking like a robot, no actual discussion.

Yeah the threads are actually there but the majority of the comments are full of people cracking jokes, or dismissing the importance of the story. Shady AF

Yeah I don't get it, my subreddits are filled with posts about Zuckerberg and I'm subscribed to mainstream subreddits.

I keep seeing this refrain in here, that reddit is burying this FB stuff but I would actually have no freaking clue about it if it wasn't for reddit since I don't watch TV or much of any thing.

I'm really struggling to find much on the testimony. It happened today. Can't find a recap of it.

All the hilarious memes about him have also been taken off of r/totallynotrobots

The Zuckerburg hearing is all over /all right now

In other news, mods and shills censor subs to hide news they don't like. Surely this type of thing never happens around here though.

I was kind of expecting this to be huge and all over reddit - vith videos and quotes being discussed into details ....

Only to be surprised with small amount of posts I see.

no. it's literally everywhere.

Something else is happening that we haven’t figured out yet. I have a feeling this is a distraction

If you follow r/undelete you will see they bury so much facebook stuff every day.

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Orwell rolls in it's grave too. The levels of privacy violations today are way past what happened in 1984.

It’s because the don is bashing Zuckercuck and the left refuses to acknowledge anything the right agrees with for fear of being seen as pro trump.

Sad really...

Also, the booster seat malarkey is a obvious misdirection

The only clip the local news station showed was literally 15 seconds where he specifically mentions 'conspiracy theories' dealing with Facebook listening through your microphone. Ended it with "well there ya go!" Bunch of fucking sheep.

well DUH

I dont have it either... and a couple of people have confirmed on chat groups that they dont have it also. Pretty strange...

It was not