Thousands of people waving Palestinian flags and chanting "Gaza, Paris is with you" gathered on Sunday for the first pro-Palestinian demonstration allowed by police in the French capital since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
Has anyone else seen what’s getting upvoted on Reddit? It’s crazy over there. They are saying and upvoting things I thought I would never see from a public internet crowd. I really hope some kind of manipulation is going on, else it’s really fucked
Please could you be specific, so we don’t have to check out Reddit, to find out? Not a dig, I’m just trying really hard to avoid the platform after moving. Cheers.
An ex-Atlantic Council member is basically their chief moderation officer.
The Atlantic Council is basically a representative for US foreign policy - it’s staffed overwhelmingly by (ex) US intelligence and DoD staff. The same is true for Facebook and I assume Google as well.
I cannot understate how important technological independence is in this day and age. The fact that Europe doesn’t have robust social media or search is a testament to Europe’s decline and Europe’s fall into the American sphere of influence.
China has Baidu and WeChat and Russia has Yandex and VK. It’s not a surprise that they’re also the only big countries which can maintain a coherent anti-Western policy. It isn’t necessarily about controlling your population, but about preventing other state actors from controlling your population.
Has anyone else seen what’s getting upvoted on Reddit? It’s crazy over there. They are saying and upvoting things I thought I would never see from a public internet crowd. I really hope some kind of manipulation is going on, else it’s really fucked
Please could you be specific, so we don’t have to check out Reddit, to find out? Not a dig, I’m just trying really hard to avoid the platform after moving. Cheers.
You don’t actually say anything, the question is why this comment is being upvoted here.
An ex-Atlantic Council member is basically their chief moderation officer.
The Atlantic Council is basically a representative for US foreign policy - it’s staffed overwhelmingly by (ex) US intelligence and DoD staff. The same is true for Facebook and I assume Google as well.
I cannot understate how important technological independence is in this day and age. The fact that Europe doesn’t have robust social media or search is a testament to Europe’s decline and Europe’s fall into the American sphere of influence.
China has Baidu and WeChat and Russia has Yandex and VK. It’s not a surprise that they’re also the only big countries which can maintain a coherent anti-Western policy. It isn’t necessarily about controlling your population, but about preventing other state actors from controlling your population.
No, no we have not, good sir. Why would we go to such a rechid and vile place?
Privvy, what do they say?