Are you familiar with the 'Powell Memo' [0] To over simplify, it makes the 1971 version of your arguments against Reddit, but against the prevailing culture of the time. It then argues that a deliberate campaign of responding to those challenges is called for. I would argue that it was successful in its aims. There is a robust culture of promoting US financial interests that seems to be able to deal with e.g. social websites.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Mem...

Without evidence to support these claims, I feel like what you’ve said just sounds like more fear-stoking.

It’s also likely that Reddit has become more international, and the world at large leans more left than the current US. Couple that with mostly-US news stories, and it’s not surprising to me that Reddit is often quite angry.

Without evidence to support accusations to widespread government propaganda, I’m going to have to go with the simpler of the two options.

Not the proper thread for this discussion, but I don’t know if I want Reddit to stop it. Do you want free speech and all the speech you don’t like with it? Or you want heavily moderated echo chamber? It seems to me people want neither - they disdain the “ugly” opinions of people other than them, but they don’t want to feel oppressed by Big Corp choosing what is ok and what not.

The solution is having multiple silos, think YouTube channel “Second Thought” (heavily leftist content) or Parler, when we get the worst from both worlds - everybody always trying to find the smallest place that can feel safe to speak with no actual discussion between different viewpoints.

Pushing for more moderation leads to precisely this option. I believe we need less of it, even if this forces us to confront the “other side”.

Eh? At the same time it is (was?) a bastion for Trumpists and conservatives.