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.
104 comments
1 JStambler 2018-04-10
It's all a show. They are trying to garner support feds regulating social media.
1 jamesjk1234 2018-04-10
It's actually been quite revealing in topics unrelated to this hearing's purpose
1 TheMadQuixotician 2018-04-10
It was linked to r/politics several times, so I'm not sure it's being censored at all
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
Pushed off front page of r/politics. Big news usually gets "stickied."
1 TheMadQuixotician 2018-04-10
1/3 of posts in /new on r/politics are about Zuckerberg, as of two minutes ago.
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
2 hours of testimony and not one makes the front? https://imgur.com/a/vozdy
1 TheMadQuixotician 2018-04-10
They would rather discuss Trump's lawyer. It's no secret that discussion is controlled on that page.
1 TheMadQuixotician 2018-04-10
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.
1 JStambler 2018-04-10
My front page has the story twice.
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
Not mine. https://imgur.com/a/p86om
1 garyp714 2018-04-10
Sometimes people forget there's a check box in their preferences:
could be you've just hidden them from yourself?
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
nope.
1 garyp714 2018-04-10
Did you check the hamper? Sometimes I leave things in my pockets and they fall into the hamper.
1 olenbarus12 2018-04-10
I dont have it either... and a couple of people have confirmed on chat groups that they dont have it also. Pretty strange...
1 workwork_workwork 2018-04-10
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.
1 diachi_revived 2018-04-10
Your image doesn't load for me.
1 Quexana 2018-04-10
Give it time.
1 lakerswiz 2018-04-10
This isn't big news. You guys are overestimating how much people care about this.
1 iwanttheblanketback 2018-04-10
Some 'gentleman's agreement' to not shine a spotlight on negative news about the Silicon Valley heads?
1 monopoly_man_pass_go 2018-04-10
Also burying Syria
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
It's crazy. Silicon Valley needs to be broken up.
1 Turdlely 2018-04-10
What does this mean exactly?
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
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!
1 FungoBatGump 2018-04-10
bo-ring
1 The_Guilty_Jester 2018-04-10
wow what a well thought out and articulate response. Were all in a better place now thanks to your insightful comment and hot opinions.
1 d3rr 2018-04-10
It seems there's no monopoly, just government infiltration into all major tech companies.
1 GORP_WHORE 2018-04-10
Facebook and Google own 90% of online advertising.
1 xactoman 2018-04-10
Got a source? I believe it. Hell, I'd believe 99%. Just curious.
1 GORP_WHORE 2018-04-10
http://fortune.com/2017/04/26/google-facebook-digital-ads/
1 Rationallyunpopular 2018-04-10
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.
1 court12b 2018-04-10
more like the government is an arm of these companies now.
1 machocamacho88 2018-04-10
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.
1 thiscontradiction 2018-04-10
Decentralization. Crypto time.
1 Zap_Powerz 2018-04-10
yeah, let trump do it lol
1 cosmicrush 2018-04-10
I tried to tell you. . . Part 1 - The conspiracy
http://mad.science.blog/2017/12/31/utopia/
I tried to tell you. . . Part 2 - Addiction Slavery and Universe 25
http://mad.science.blog/2018/02/05/utopia-2-sociological-death/
1 wile_e_chicken 2018-04-10
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/
1 Doolimite 2018-04-10
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
1 Floorspud 2018-04-10
It has literally been all over r/news r/worldnews and r/politics for the past week. A simple search shows that.
1 wile_e_chicken 2018-04-10
And suddenly, when the US is about to go in, it's gone silent.
1 Floorspud 2018-04-10
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8bd3p4/syria_warplanes_spotted_as_usa_airstrike_fears/
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8b9rj1/us_france_and_britain_agree_to_respond_to_syrian/
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8bccf9/russia_vetoes_syria_chemical_weapons_inquiry/
Has there been any other significant updates in the last few hours?
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1 wile_e_chicken 2018-04-10
Nothing even close to /r/all or /r/popular. This should be dominating the site.
1 Floorspud 2018-04-10
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.
1 wile_e_chicken 2018-04-10
Good lord. Clearly I'm saying imminent WW3 should be dominating -- NOT Zuckerberg.
1 Floorspud 2018-04-10
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.
1 jamesjk1234 2018-04-10
Yeah, it isn't anywhere because he confirmed Fabo is working with Mueller, which begs the question, Which other platform is too?
1 lost_and_confound 2018-04-10
All the major ones, I think
1 HoundDogs 2018-04-10
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.
1 TucanSamBitch 2018-04-10
Lol yeah Trump is the real victim here
1 HoundDogs 2018-04-10
I intentionally didn’t say anything of that nature to avoid comments like yours.
1 TucanSamBitch 2018-04-10
Seemed pretty implied my man
1 HoundDogs 2018-04-10
It was not
1 workwork_workwork 2018-04-10
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.
1 WudWar 2018-04-10
A honeypot for what, memes and shitposts?
1 workwork_workwork 2018-04-10
Russian interference in the 2016 election? I'm not part of the investigating team so I wouldn't know for sure.
1 Kavilion 2018-04-10
Finally, a honeypot I can understand.
1 jamesjk1234 2018-04-10
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.
1 the-99th-monkey 2018-04-10
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.
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
Congress is throwing him softballs. It's despicable. They're all in his pocket.
1 tacobellcosby 2018-04-10
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
1 expletivdeleted 2018-04-10
iirc, from another headline, he's given money to something like 80% of them
1 the_mountains1985 2018-04-10
Yeah....the entire room laughed after Cruz was done talking with him.....so weird.
1 Sunglasses-At-Nite 2018-04-10
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.
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
They've been bribed.
1 mjbmitch 2018-04-10
This is neither here nor there but, damn, do softballs actually hurt!
1 AbjectEra 2018-04-10
I got banned from the SF sub for saying take his name off of SFGH. That and I called someone a dickhead
1 JDBThrowaway999 2018-04-10
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.
1 Green_Lives_Matter 2018-04-10
Breaking: Reddit is owned and run by literal cancer lords
1 gaslightlinux 2018-04-10
It's on my frontpage.
1 BetaKeyTakeaway 2018-04-10
TIL 93% upvoted is heavily downvoted.
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1 workwork_workwork 2018-04-10
But, but, his narrative! You are totally destroying it! You monster!
1 Emelius 2018-04-10
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
1 workwork_workwork 2018-04-10
It's there, #15 for me right now
1 Catsarenotreptilians 2018-04-10
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.
1 Namesoog 2018-04-10
Just put the word Trump in the title and it will hit the front page.
1 Fibbs 2018-04-10
fucking this, the whole reason this all blew up was the T word.
1 ThorVonHammerdong 2018-04-10
Ive had no trouble finding coverage on Reddit of zuck. Ive seen almost nothing about Syria in the past few days
1 zagbag 2018-04-10
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.
1 Upupabove 2018-04-10
Seriously they were asking for AI censorship...what were the name she of the reps that pushed it?
1 Burra-Hobbit 2018-04-10
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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1 kawikzguy 2018-04-10
CIA owned reddit wants complete control of facebook. He must have denied them access at one point and they got mad.
1 Emelius 2018-04-10
What subreddit are they coming out of? That's the important thing
1 siquerty 2018-04-10
r/all is littered with zuckerberg posts
1 deepfriedhotdog 2018-04-10
They are all making fun of the booster cushion or him looking like a robot, no actual discussion.
1 HumbleInitiate 2018-04-10
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
1 Smile_lifeisgood 2018-04-10
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.
1 MichaelOwensNan 2018-04-10
I'm really struggling to find much on the testimony. It happened today. Can't find a recap of it.
1 BobTheMarliest 2018-04-10
All the hilarious memes about him have also been taken off of r/totallynotrobots
1 bjivy 2018-04-10
The Zuckerburg hearing is all over /all right now
1 scrubbydood 2018-04-10
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.
1 zenicaone 2018-04-10
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.
1 AllRedMeat 2018-04-10
no. it's literally everywhere.
1 HotBananaa 2018-04-10
Something else is happening that we haven’t figured out yet. I have a feeling this is a distraction
1 zerton 2018-04-10
If you follow r/undelete you will see they bury so much facebook stuff every day.
1 Floorspud 2018-04-10
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8bar6z/facebook_talking_to_special_counsel_robert_mueller/
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8bb4xk/mark_zuckerberg_testimony_live_we_dont_sell_data/
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8bao5s/facebook_talking_to_special_counsel/
Facebook has been all over reddit for the past few weeks, why are you outright lying?
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1 slave008 2018-04-10
Orwell rolls in it's grave too. The levels of privacy violations today are way past what happened in 1984.
1 D33PLyManic 2018-04-10
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...
1 Jani3D 2018-04-10
Also, the booster seat malarkey is a obvious misdirection
1 FORKinmyDICK 2018-04-10
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.
1 reddit_propaganda_BS 2018-04-10
well DUH
1 olenbarus12 2018-04-10
I dont have it either... and a couple of people have confirmed on chat groups that they dont have it also. Pretty strange...
1 HoundDogs 2018-04-10
It was not