Comment by itsmebutimatwork on 06/08/2013 at 18:34 UTC

231 upvotes, 8 direct replies (showing 8)

This is like the NSA telling me they aren't harvesting my data. You can't bust myths about yourself.

Any conspiracy theorist worth their tin foil hat could have told you this.

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Comment by JoshSN at 07/08/2013 at 00:06 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I am really unclear how you missed the fact that Alexis Ohanian, and 38.7248% of reddit employees, are, in fact, NSA employees.

Why do you think this came up now, with the spying and Snowden in the news?

Comment by raibc at 06/08/2013 at 18:49 UTC

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Reddit is a site that accumulates data from other sources, including directly from its users. They don't put anything out there unless its about site maintenance or some other mechanical thing, and even then it most likely gets put on the blog, not on the reddit proper. What reason do they have to lie to us, then, you might ask?

All reddit employees have a personal chef from Olive Garden to make them breadsticks whenever they please on the condition that they spy on their users and feed the info directly to Olive Garden corporate. Obviously.

Comment by Sarah_Connor at 06/08/2013 at 23:59 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Considering we, over at /r/conspiracy, were given NO forewarning about this post; I wouldn't believe a single damn word in it.

I mean, who the hell do these guys think they are? I'm going to ban anyone with an orangered UID from /r/conspiracy now!

Comment by eternallymystified at 06/08/2013 at 23:52 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

You could politely explain how your business works by identifying widespread misconceptions of your customers (redditors)

Comment by PanniculusHam at 06/08/2013 at 19:58 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Had to scroll pretty far down to find a comment that wasn't fluff

Comment by dehrmann at 06/08/2013 at 20:36 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The real conspiracy there is the tin foil industry desperately trying to cling to what aluminum foil and, well, cling wrap have taken from them.