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Listen, there are so many legitimate criticisms of Reddit, no one needs to make things up. This happens every year in June. Somebody posts about Tiananmen, some automod or real mod removes it, someone screams "Reddit" is censoring things.
There are tons of posts about Tiananmen that are still up after years. Tencent owns a small minority stake in Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/121a4lg/have_you_seen_this_footage_of_tiananmen_square/
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/gvwu6h/megathread_tiananmen_square_massacre/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/v4ryjb/photo_of_the_aftermath_of_tiananmen_square/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/gw2y6b/the_real_picture_of_tiananmen_square_massacre/
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11dv95p/the_tank_man_from_tiananmen_square_massacre/
You did the work, this deserves to be higher in the comments
Had no idea! Thanks for informing me. I will keep this post up because I think it is an interesting discussion to have
So edit your post title, otherwise you're spreading misinformation.
spreading misinformation is what he's here for and so the post stays. why else would one wait 3 weeks to dig up a comment, get all the facts wrong, and use it as clickbait to stir up fake drama over absolutely nothing and make reddit critics look stupid. while plenty of real things are going on where the critics are right. "I will keep this post up because I think it is an interesting discussion to have" my ass and that's a dead giveaway of the guy's bad faith agenda. straight from the cointelpro playbook for online misinformation
Hold on, I am not here to spread misinformation! Like I said before, I genuinely had no idea about the trend of Tiananmen square posts since I don't browse r/all. As for why I haven't retitled it yet...didn't know you could!
Also the 3 week old twitter post, I got from a discord friend.
How many people will read the title without the comments and leave with the wrong idea?
Not that I think you should take the post down, but the title is quite definitive, and confirms existing biases, so people are unlikely to research further.
You can edit titles here.
Something I love about the fediverse!
It's also just silly to think CPP would bother censoring Tiananmen square on /western/ websites.
Maybe within the firewall, and maybe try to influence coverage on contemporary issues, but I don't think they actually care about redditors sharing images from their history textbook,
I'm grateful this platform is beginning to have fact checkers.
Great sources, great awareness. Reddit is still shit, but for other reasons, not this.
This makes a lot more sense. Thank you for your service sir!
You are obviously correct, and I'm not arguing at all, just genuinely curious why it would happen in june specifically?
That's the month it happened, so that's the month people post about it, meaning it's also the month it's removed and people cry foul.
Tiananmen Massacre anniversary is June 4, so there are multiple posts about it (which is great), and a couple of those posts get removed (usually for really obvious violations of sub-specific rules), and someone sees that and cries "Reddit is censoring! CCP shills!"
It's a damn Reddit tradition at this point
Thank you, this has to be one of the more annoying Reddit conspiracy theories, especially because every year multiple posts with clickbait titles would hit the front page.
Also tencent doesn't have "massive" investments in reddit, they invested 150 million USD when reddit was valued at a worth of 2-3 billion. So they have a less than 10% stake.
This is the sort of comment I used to go to Reddit for. Quality.
This sort of comment is why my 5yr Reddit account has > 200K karma. I was very active on Reddit via Boost app, and I'm happy to nuke the whole thing and start over after the way they've been acting. I really don't think they have any idea what they've done.
Nice to see you here!