Reddit is a solid example of CIA-style dialogue control and narrative manipulation. Not all of the “moderation” that goes on in the various corners of reddit falls into the category of “manipulation by shadowy entities”, but certainly anything that doesn’t fall into that category surely is attributed to the petty wants of whatever moderator is wading through the muck. The moderators of reddit almost universally suck, and honestly they should be replaced with Bayesian spam filters and CSAM autodetection systems at most, with an occasional janitor to prune the worst contributions. Instead, reddit consists almost entirely of wildly entitled morons just espousing whatever idiotic tripe they deem fit for mass consumption.
If we’re being honest, reddit is a direct reflection of how awful our species truly can be. It’s a hyperbolic extreme and it is not flattering to us.
Sorry, I just had to rant about it. Felt a need to get it off my chest. There are a lot of things annoying me today, but that’s at least something I can address on this public blog.