6052 upvotes, 51 direct replies (showing 25)
View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community
People complaining that reddit is becoming too political seem to forget that the admins blacked out the entire site in protest of a specific bill being voted on in Congress. Making a post in opposition of a president's executive order is small potatoes compared to their political actions in the past.
Comment by _vargas_ at 30/01/2017 at 23:05 UTC*
555 upvotes, 12 direct replies
That was a dark day for me. I was on the verge of browsing fark. Luckily, I stumbled on pornhub first. Still, it was a little too close for comfort.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/01/2017 at 23:51 UTC
64 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Always baffles me. "Oh, this social community is too political." yeah, dude. That's because politics is literally how everything happens. It impacts almost every part of your life. It's modestly relevant.
Comment by PC_BUCKY at 30/01/2017 at 23:08 UTC
1842 upvotes, 8 direct replies
that was the net neutrality bill correct?
Comment by Ivanka_Humpalot at 30/01/2017 at 23:51 UTC
52 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Reddit hosts the largest and most active forum for Trump supporters on the Internet. Trump supporters whining about being censored forget that reddit has no obligation to allow them here at all.
Comment by Thorbjorn42gbf at 30/01/2017 at 23:29 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
That action was pretty self serving as a company though. Shutting down to protest a bill that directly threatens your business seems like a somewhat more political neutral action than, expressing displeasure with how the president runs the nation.
Not that I mind them being political as long as its kept a long way from the rules, and moderation.
Comment by spru9 at 31/01/2017 at 00:00 UTC
22 upvotes, 3 direct replies
You only ever see trump supporters complaining about how this site is too political. Most of um don't seem to mind when The_Donald was flooding the front page with pics of dead children, or when they were insulting everyone else as cucks, libtards, and muslim fuckholes, or when they were upvoting neo nazi comics to the front page.
Comment by PM_me_a_dirty_haiku at 30/01/2017 at 23:16 UTC
86 upvotes, 2 direct replies
That bill had to do with the internet
Comment by adlist at 31/01/2017 at 01:54 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think the majority here are not complaining; /r/politics is more active than ever.
Comment by Neri25 at 30/01/2017 at 23:35 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Fuck them. Fuck them for thinking that the only thing the internet is supposed to be is an escape from their real life. Nobody on social media owes it to anybody to stop talking about things that will impact us all. If somebody wants to disengage, then they can bloody well do it and stop haranguing others over it.
Comment by cradlecats at 31/01/2017 at 03:31 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
At this point there is no separating the personal from the corporate from the political. Trump has up-ended how society operates. Kudos to tech leaders giving visibility and strength to the fight against Trump's fascism.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/01/2017 at 23:19 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
But Aaron Swartz is dead and reddit admins pretend he never existed.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/01/2017 at 18:30 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit does a lot of stupid things but I fully support them when they take a stand against the US government doing harmful things.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/01/2017 at 23:41 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Cough SOPA
Comment by dsk at 31/01/2017 at 13:48 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
People complaining that reddit is becoming too political
Reddit was always (or almost always) political.
Comment by Monalisa9298 at 30/01/2017 at 23:52 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
And WTF is wrong with being political? Trump MUST be opposed by honorable people.
Comment by Mangalz at 30/01/2017 at 23:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I wouldn't mind being political if they could just get the facts straight.
This sentence
President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all.
Just shows a clear either misunderstanding or misrepresentation of what is happening.
This is only a temporary ban from 7 countries, that two administrations have agreed are problem areas that need stricter vetting.
As for the people stuck at airports, every single one of them got to go where they wanted to go.
This is not an attack on immigration, it is not a muslim ban, and it is not unconstitutional.
Disagree all you want with how it was done, or whether or not you think it is necessary, but lets at least get the facts right. Alternative and otherwise.
Comment by yurigoul at 31/01/2017 at 08:56 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Now black out t_d until the ban is lifted.
Comment by pickelsurprise at 31/01/2017 at 01:11 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
People genuinely believe activism is okay only when they agree with it. Notice how a bunch of people always say "celebrities need to stay out of politics" whenever one of them speaks up, but those same people are nowhere to be found when a celebrity happens to agree with them. Similarly, protests are childish and counter-productive when they're done by the other side, but when your side does it they're patriotic and heroic.
Comment by ITS_JUST_2015_BRO at 31/01/2017 at 00:08 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Why did they not write this post when Obama halted Iraqi refugees in 2011?
Why did they not write this when Obama permanently halted Cuban refugees just TWO weeks ago?
Why does nobody care about jewish refugees being permanently banned from the countries that have been temporarily banned for 3 months by Trump?
Why dont they care about (and make public statements about) Obama dropping 100k bombs on these countries? Is killing OK but not accepting refugees for 3 months unjustifiable? These are countries we arent even at war with
Why dont they care about the up-to 90% civilian death rate of those bombs?
I just think all of this is so hypocritical and stupid. If Obama did the same thing nobody would be writing all this sappy nonsense
Comment by [deleted] at 31/01/2017 at 01:09 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The "too political" is due to "neutral" subs being moderated in such a way that all dissenting views contrary to the mods are banned or downvoted to oblivion. And then subs like /r/pics becoming 90% political posts. People come on reddit to poop and laugh, not get blasted with very liberal politics, with a dash of right wing T_D making up the small minority.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/01/2017 at 02:48 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah those were the days. These are also days. But those were also days. I so remember that day being more productive than usual.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/01/2017 at 00:15 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They sure did, but 1 year ago when the TPP was being discussed news and information was pretty actively censored[1] on the major news and political subs.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/3azxth/are_reddit_modsadmins_censoring_tpp_posts_how/
Comment by JournalismIsDead at 30/01/2017 at 23:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Gee, awfully interesting timing for this post. The playbook for CTR was just leaked by WikiLeaks. Go read it, they detail how it's their purpose to control the narrative on social media. 81 million funding, 86 employees. Propaganda machine.
Comment by TommyK154 at 30/01/2017 at 23:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Man you're telling me that an internet business took a political stand against a bill that would *literally directly affect them*?
I think the word I'm looking for is REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Comment by [deleted] at 31/01/2017 at 02:10 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
And on a website fully based off of voting for posts you like, the fact that political posts always make the front page means that the complaining people are the minority.