But we maybe allowed is stuff like this, small social media groups, so long as they don't get big.

Seize control of what happens on Reddit and you have an army.

well there was a study done that shows humans do not view the recipients online as real humans when interacting

Jes, yes ...

@pratel isnt that 4chan lol

autism army

No, 4chan has memes and stuff, but it's not nearly as influential as Reddit.

More importantly, most people don't take 4chan 100% seriously.

People on reddit are serious.

but 4chan has led to arrests of Antifa members Reddit has led to citizens being arrested for mean words

And college students *act just like they do on Reddit in real life*

4chan has real world implications.

ahh yeah you are right @pratel they do here too

But it doesn't have the same level of population control.

Tumblr is just like Reddit for women, actually.

4chan is anti population control, Reddit always struck me s conforming to the mainstream leftism

I'd actually say Tumblr has a good deal of the left-women split.

Reddit used to have some balance.

But then it got conquered by ShareBlue.

full disclosure I'm Gen X so Reddit isn't something I go on. But @Timcast got kicked off the Anarchy subreddit and that says it all

I tried Reddit, I got the feeling they got a lot of rules and control a lot.

And it's rapidly become increasingly leftist. Banning people and subs who don't toe the official line.

Reddit used to be pretty open from what I can tell.

But it's become increasingly controlled since 2014 or so.

In terms of population control, imagine if the Stazi had access to all the data Google does.

A sleepless informant in every pocket.

Knowledge of what *everyone* is looking at.

@pratel sounds a bit what we have today.

It is. The only reason it hasn't become terrifying is that Google has traditionally been pretty libertarian and avoided fully exploiting their information.

But that has changed. Google looks unrecognizable to me now.

I'm of the belief we *must* do something about the social media giants and we needed to do something a long time ago.

@pratel agree +!

If you look at my post, I rarely use offensive language and always try to be fair in my comments. I am on my third userid with TYT with their shadow banning.

+1

@TraderPropShop but they ban you anyway. Because it's about controlling the narrative.

Political influence and control is a form of power.

but its deeper than that

look at the changes to language

the moment you start using the extremist language you have conceeded half the battle

I tried to be very non-emotive and very careful what I said, I got banned anyway.

Yep. Join the club.

And it's on all the major platforms too.