Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.
Surprising that this bug hit only NSFW and LGBT subs no? Almost sounds like there’s a shortlist to run through with such scripts.
They just have that ban loaded and ready to go… for reasons…
Just like Facebook’s search “accidentally” suppressing Democrat searches. Firstly, why would you have that ready to “accidentally” deploy? Secondly, There’s no way something like that gets enabled without multiple levels of manager approval. Facebook isn’t some startup where anyone can push code to production.
Gotta keep the historical moment in context. If Harris had won, these bans wouldn’t be going through.
The “WhitePeopleTwitter” sub got axed for outing Elon’s IT goons infiltrating the Treasury. Now that he’s on the sub, he’s probably got his legal/PR team sending threatening letters to Reddit admins for anything he finds personally upsetting.
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Some other platforms also tested and reversed blockages on democratic and anti-trump sentiment. That was a “bug” too. https://archive.is/BkVAi
How quickly we forget, which I guess is the point.
Think about how easy it was for them to both “turn it off” and “turn it back on” and then realize that’s not a place you should rely on.
Because it is very difficult to monitor, investors tend to hate it, and they have issues with CSAM being shared on site (while making it neigh impossible to address).