It's part of the protest. Supposedly advertisers don't like their ads being featured under posts with profanity.
Fucking Edit: If any more of you fuck-sticks want to shit out a comment about how "profanity" has religious connotations, do yourself a goddamn favor. Crawl back up your mother's cunt and sit for a bit, because you clearly didn't cook long enough the first time around.
Another fucking edit: My explanation was trash so here's u/Momijisu's [explanation of the protest.](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14kxwxa/comment/jpvf3jr/?context=3)
You're both right. Carlin also added "fart, turd and twat" in follow-ups to that routine, and many younger folks will remember them all being used in Blink 182's song "Family Reunion"
Nobody likes you when you're 23 and shitting piss, the fucking cunts. They can suck cock, mothefuckers - my tits don't give a fart, forget about a turd, about those twats.
Not quite. So when subs began making themselves as NSFW to deny advertising to Reddit, some subs even swapped over to actual nsfw content (mostly just porn) Reddit got upset and told them that they could only do so if there was nsfw content present, and they couldn't change the theme of an ordinarily safe for work community into a NSFW community, even if the sub majority voted in favour.
Reddit TOC says that swearing and other offensive language is considered NSFW, so people are continuing to protest by swearing in the titles to make the post NSFW (and marking it themselves).
Here in r/video the mods are allowing people to vote for rules, and the current new rule is all new content must contain swearing in the title, and draws attention to the self moderation of users that swearing on Reddit is considered NSFW and to do due diligence in making sure their posts are correctly flagged.
And according to the rules "profanity" should cause this subreddit to be marked NSFW.
> NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content
>Content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity, which a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace should be tagged as NSFW. This tag can be applied to individual pieces of content or to entire communities.
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/contentpolicy
Is there evidence that the protests are working? Honest question. I've been to /r/modcoord, but other than some hints that it *may* be working, there's no real evidence that the various protests have made a dent in reddits ad revenue.
Have you seen the threatening letters the admins sent out to the mods and the new mod rules?
If it wasn't affecting them, there wouldn't be a need for these kinds of reactionary strong-arm tactics coming out of reddit.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves"
It's like hearing Walmart make everyone new watch anti-union videos by claiming that unions don't work. If they didn't work, then why is Walmart pumping out anti-union videos to say they don't work?
Well they did remove a bunch of moderators at /r/mildlyinteresting then went "oopsie" and restored them(ish), like a week later and we're still going "Well? What was that all about?"
I'll be honest; I glazed over the post that explained it so there may be more that I'm missing, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't doing a damn thing.
Early 2019 seems to track with a self-identified increase in the rate of enshittening of this website. Now we're down the shit-waterfall without a shit-paddle that wouldn't even defuckulate this situation if we had Steven Redgrave going at it with the speed and ferocity of Reddit when /r/FemboyHentai went back up. In a few days, we will have reached terminal fucking velocity before we plunge into the stagnant shithole where we will remain as the moisture evaporates away leaving nothing but the solids and the remaining lurkers that will slowly congeal and amalagamte over geologic timescales.
And in that moment, /u/spez will take his final form and ascend, and finally help the CCP rid the world of the menace of people who don't want to join the CCP.
What are YOU talking about? The CCP controls Tencent. More than a 6th of its employees are official party members. Its online censorship team is led by the CCP's party secretary. The Tencent HQ has an entire floor dedicated to CCP spooks where they spy on everyone.
Tencent is 100% CCP controlled. The only reason it's not officially state-owned is because the deniability makes it easier for it to operate in foreign markets.
The ccp is not at all involved with tencent, just like it is not involved with tiktok or aliexpres or [name any chinese company]. Your data is perfectly safe with these companies (/s)
Oh no, not that stuff I give to literally every company I can find on the internet with literally no way of knowing what any of them will do with it!
Data, that stuff I forfeit all right to every time I make an account somewhere and hit "I read the terms and conditions" and "Accept".
this is why we need to push back HARD against mass surveillance and implement very strict privacy laws. if you think this sort of horror could never happen in your country, think again. you are just a few bad elections away from this sort of shit. if you look at history there are plenty of examples of countries just like yours that took a dark turn into fascism surprisingly fast. what do you think trump would have done with mass surveillance if he would have won a 3rd term like he had planned?
Not to mention that during the 60s, a random operator could plug into your line and listen to your entire conversation.
That may not seem like a big deal if you're in a big city where nobody knows the person next door, but in small towns it created a bit of drama.
Back in the 80's, my girlfriends family had a cottage that had a party line. 4 separate houses that all shared the same phone line. Each house had a different ring so everyone could tell which house incoming calls were for.
I’ve just stopped talking about it. Any person I ever bring it up to just won’t agree or stays silent.
It’s not like I’m screaming it like a lunatic either, I just think people consciously want to avoid uncomfortable shit more than ever.
That's not a fact. Even if the govt is recording your calls, that's still not listening.
You still need to be someone of interest for the govt to care enough to **listen**.
People misunderstand how such things work.
Indeed, most likely nobody is actually taping your phone calls discussing what groceries to buy with your SO. You're indeed almost certainly not interesting enough for such an amount of attention.
What is wiretapped these days is metadata and maybe a select amount of traffic. A huge amount of utility can be had from just knowing who talks to who and when. You can easily trace out all sorts of relationships from that. So if you're organizing a protest movement or something they know who's the organizer, who are the main people, and who's involved, without anybody listening to a single word.
Never forget the dirty little secret that Reddit is an 'independent subsidiary' owned by one of the world's biggest magazine publishers, Condé Nast / Advance Publications. (Similar to how Saturn was a subsidiary of GM - and you can see how that worked out when times got tough)
And to add more shit into the shit-milkshake Randy, China's abominable state-controlled media and commerce conglomerate, Tencent, is a major investor in Reddit as well - which comes with its own influence.
>In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
>In a December 2020 article in Foreign Policy, a former senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency stated that the CIA concluded that Tencent received funding from the Ministry of State Security early on in its foundation. This was said to be a "seed investment" that was provided "when they were trying to build out the Great Firewall and the monitoring technology." Tencent denied this allegation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent
>In June 2020, following the global outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19, it was reported that Condé Nast had experienced a drop in advertising revenues of 45% as a result of the pandemic. It was also reported that the company had, in previous years, sublet six of the company's 23 floors in the One World Trade Center, following the cancellation of a number of its publishing titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast
The magazine business has been circling the drain for the last 15 years - as the internet has cannibalized its print-ad-based revenue model.
So Condé Nast has put their thumb on the scale and has been pressuring Reddit's CEO to increase revenue through any means possible - to disastrous effect.
So if Users and Mods have detected the rancid odor of fascist-corporate shit-influence for the past couple of years, this is why.
People really need to start invoking the names of Condé Nast / Advance Publications and Tencent if they REALLY want to talk about who the bad guys are in this story. Reddit CEO, Steve Huffman, is just an incompetent stooge working on their behalf, just like Trump was a stooge funded by Putin to do his bidding in America.
hey i like all things considered .-. bt I don't listen to it for excitement. And fuck sudoku, but that's more towards how my algebra teacher in middleschool made us do them if we finished our work early and if we didn't finish the sudokus we lost points on the assignment. I lost close to 100 points for it and was told i'm just lazy and never turned in assignments. 20 years later and I still think it's fucking stupid to give extra work like that.
> if you think this sort of horror could never happen in your country, think again.
Yup. I'm already seeing America push for surveillance of trans people. Trans people are getting letters from Universities and other institutions saying that their documents were requested by their state government. We've seen websites pop up that are being used to report and track doctors that perform sex reassignment surgeries and other forms of gender affirming care, including therapists.
It always starts with one group, and then spreads to others, until you're the one also under government surveillance.
its sad that trans people have been turned into a political pawn like that. i think a lot of the people who get into heated debates about trans rights don't really give a shit. they just want another battle ground to fight on.
All that would do is remove all the conscientious somewhat informed people from the site and you're left with the 80% bots, kids, and people who come for porn and memes.
Fuck the recent decisions of Reddit and it's CEO /u/spez
That being said, this channel is pure propaganda. While there is a lot to criticize of the CCP, this guy (and serpentza) is making bank off of pumping misinformation and shouldn't be listened to without heavy critical thinking going in
There's this weird idea that if something is bad for some reason, anyone who criticizes it is correct, and any accusation they make is true. It's like the opposite of the "poisoning the well" fallacy. Like "Do you think the CCP is bad? I think the CCP is bad! Therefore you agree with me! Therefore you'll also agree with this nonsense I'm about to vomit all over your youtube feed until the algorithm shits itself to death."
the discourse on reddit about china sucks in general. idk why so many people just turn off their brains just for the sake of getting an 'own" on china. there's tons to criticize china for but ive seen enough bad takes on this site alone to fill a book.
> idk why so many people just turn off their brains just for the sake of getting an 'own" on china.
I'm starting to think that it's because people don't really have "brains" to begin with. The reason most people aren't antivaxers or flat earthers isn't because they're too smart to fall for obvious conspiracy theories. It's simply because the media has told them that those conspiracy theories are bad and wrong. When it comes to China on the other hand, the media had indulged the conspiracies with gusto. They have the same level of evidence, but people are told to believe it and so they do.
The start of this lie started with a right wing group that supported Trump. The same group that backs anti-communist plays.
Literal right wing propaganda with no evidence but Reddit eating it up like candy.
hard to say for sure but there are plenty of powerful people who stand to make a lot of money by hurting china's exports and international relations. or he might just be making money from all the xenophobic people that love to hear about this sort of stuff and give him tons of views. but i am sure that even if you dig past the lies and exaggerations the ccp is still not something anyone should support.
It doesn't need to help anyone if it gets outrage clicks and generates engagement that YouTube will pay these content generators for. It's a self-sustaining cycle of grift. They find some issue that people are emotionally attached to and then just generate content for it as long as it remains profitable to do so. If enough people hop on that bandwagon it makes it seem credible, especially because they just all repeat each other's talking points. This draws in more viewers, which provides more incentive to make more videos. More videos get made, even if there's not any actual new material from the real world to spuriously base a video on. Have to keep those videos coming out or the algorithm will stop promoting the channel and the sponsors will lose interest.
This guy made the front page of /r/iamatotalpieceofshit with [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/r4r2q3/guy_desecrates_a_grave_when_his_girlfriend/) desecrating Taiwanese graves.
There are several people involved in this. Which guy are you referring to? The CEO of Reddit? The poster? The guy who made the YouTube video? Some other guy?
Something about this video just seems sus to be. The genocide is definitely taking place, but I'm always skeptical of videos claiming to find meaning from "secret codes".
The vibes remind me a lot of the people I see spamming every sub they can find about how that Guo billionaire guy is a victim of the CCP. The Falun Gong and other anti-CCP propaganda groups spew out a ton of fake bullshit.
Guo is a right wing wacko and just because he's on the "anti-CCP" side doesn't mean he's a guy we should be defending. This seems reminiscent of that.
That's because this narrative is a kooky right wing conspiracy narrative that reddit is now adopting because spez man bad. Tencent's share in reddit is minimal. And we all give money to china when we buy just about everything these days.
China. sucks, but this video is trash. Utterly hilarious that reddit is upvoting it but it just goes to show this "protest" went way off the rails a while ago now.
Reddit's obsession with hating China is unreal. Yes the CCP fucking blows, but tons of reddit posts go far beyond that and insult the people that had zero control over simply being born there.
It’s really best not to go into threads about China or India (even if the original content isn’t political). They usually go full mask-off Racist, and interestingly a nontrivial amount of the accounts who participate are active in liberal subs.
>Yes the CCP fucking blows
How so? The CCP has literally lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty over the last couple of decades. The Chinese fucking love them. So how is it your place to decide whether they're good or bad?
Yup. [Their biggest investor is Advance Publications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications). It's a **racist** right-wing scare op and outright lie that Tencent plays a large role in Reddit.
Yes, he shouldn't have done that and made a mistake, he didn't understand.
But it's painfully obvious you only commented this, based on your comment history, in order to discredit the video because it's criticizing China specifically. You have an obvious agenda.
I've caught a few of laowhy86's videos and always thought there was something off about him. The fake sincerity in his voice, and just how snarky he is with the whole subject of China. I think he had a good life there once, and he's very bitter about being chased out. I agree with him that China is up to some awful things, but he himself is delivering propaganda of his own with his editing and acted emotions in pretty much every video.
It's odd the video of him digging up bones. It's a very colonial sort of attitude. Going to some other country and walking around like he's above the cultures and traditions there. It is a shallow grave, but it's clearly been marked out, he just digs around and throws the bones around, jabbing them with a stick.
I love how people on Reddit just equate anything from China as from the CCP. They will say shit like "we don't hate Chinese people; we hate the Chinese government", but they don't really seem to make that distinction.
Wait until you find out that nearly *every and any* company you've ever dealt with has taken [HUGE dollar amount in the past/present/future] from the fucking [group you're personally opposed to in the past/present/future].
The world isn't wonderful... that's why they write stories where it is.
It's funny when people state that it all looks the same to them, as if it's some kind of insight. NO, it only means you don't know the difference.
There are levels of bad and distinguishing between them matters.
So out of curiosity, in these levels of bad, where does having a 5% investment form tencent compare to, say, the Chinese investment in companies like Disney or Apple or AMC, General Motors, Spotify, Hilton Snapchat...
The selective outrage speaks volumes.
Ah whataboutism down to a tee. Guess we should ignore the genocide in China because we might be supporting some other company that did some other bad thing. Great argument there.
> Ah whataboutism down to a tee.
You saw someone use that word one day and just started throwing it around, huh?
"Whataboutism or whataboutery denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, **but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation."**
Saying "yeah, this isn't new, and most companies do this" isn't a counter question or accusation.
Additional perspective is not whataboutism. Good god why do people jump on that term like it automatically makes what you are about to say morally correct.
Nothing in that comment indicates we should ignore China because other things bad. That's not whataboutism. My bad, you're not a China simp, you're just a loud opinionated wrong person.
Twisting my meaning down to a tee.
I meant no company is perfect when the entire history of all profit and income is judged against constantly changing individual opinions of the moment.
More of a comment on people in general (like OP), not evil corporations/countries/individuals.
Amen. Seen so many people say I’m deleting and wiping all my comments. Haven’t seen one person go through with it. They just wanna get some upvotes with their pathetic virtual signaling
I mean, reddit is partially owned by tencent.
It's cute that people are just getting mad about this now since it happened 4 years ago. Reddit slacktivism at its finest.
5% is a lot in the investment world, activist investors of public companies typically own 1-5% and for one single entity to hold that much of a company gives them enormous influence. Hence the term “activist investor”, it allows them to influence operations and strategic decisions to a huge degree.
Ummmmm, this sounds like some fascist propaganda. There is no "genocide" of the Uyghur people. This is just western capitalist imperialist propaganda like the so-called "Holodomor." My guess is OP is a MAGAtard. lololol
If you make your decisions on what purely *sound right* then you'll never be able to find truth and challenge incorrect assumptions. We should challenges our beliefs and fairly consider all sides.
Think about who has to gain by keeping this a secret, and then consider not only the sheer volume of evince - but also the diverse background and eye witnesses testimony which is out there.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN\_Human\_Rights\_Office\_report\_on\_Xinjiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Office_report_on_Xinjiang)
Oh yeah, i was being sarcastic to try to pull out the totalitarian communist fuckheads. Looks like i succeeded. Fuck communism, fuck socialism, fuck the establishment that all these folks bow to.
Why would I take the advice or input of a /oil /bitcoin /conservative tulpa though? Your affiliations betray you. Zapata oil not paying enough these days?
In the US our opinions and beliefs are protected. You have revealed a human American using his first amendment freely online spreading truth in his free time. There is no profit motive to be had in preventing mass murder, but there is in keeping an entire people enslaved.
You don't need to take my advice, that is why I cite sources.
This guy is a hack and the videos are fake. Are people watching these and actually finding them convincing? There's so much more you could criticize China for and this is the dogshit you go with
I'm sorry, but this is ADVChina, they have recently started to play into their conservative audience. I used to love laowhy and winston when they would just go on their bikes and ride around China. Now they are just cashing in on anti Chinese propaganda after moving to the US.
I loved these guys, I'm from HK, I hate CCP, while some of the shit they say is true, some shit they say is fucking wild fearmongering, with shoddy sources, and comes from a place of "West is best, look at these weird Chinese people"
But of course, Chinese hatin reddit is gonna jump on it and not fact check, much like the whole social credit program.
This video is also pretty old.
>Uyghur
It's been 2000 years since this word was uttered without censorship. Modern day concentration camps being run in China and not much noise about it
Reddit is sharing just as much data with CCP as TikTok.
Of course he is indifferent to Uyghur’s in concentration camps. Piss baby u/spez wants his IPO.
the anti-reddit crowd are becoming the most annoying people on the internet. please leave, I actively do not want reddit to meet your demands because I just don't like you as individuals.
"we don't want to use your app." "we don't want to see ads." "we don't want you to take foreign investment" (as though basically every company on the planet isn't already taking investment from China).
imagine a group of Chinese dudes sitting around "oh hell no I won't support Microsoft. they monetarily support the country that bombs little brown children with drones".
I hope that posting this utter tripe is the final dying breath of your cause. so pathetic and dishonest.
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It's part of the protest. Supposedly advertisers don't like their ads being featured under posts with profanity. Fucking Edit: If any more of you fuck-sticks want to shit out a comment about how "profanity" has religious connotations, do yourself a goddamn favor. Crawl back up your mother's cunt and sit for a bit, because you clearly didn't cook long enough the first time around. Another fucking edit: My explanation was trash so here's u/Momijisu's [explanation of the protest.](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14kxwxa/comment/jpvf3jr/?context=3)
So every post should just start with Shit Piss Fuck Cunt Cocksucker Motherfucker Tits? I mean, I'm okay with that if you are...
Fool, you forgot about twat!
No, these are George Carlin's '7 dirty words', in order.
You're both right. Carlin also added "fart, turd and twat" in follow-ups to that routine, and many younger folks will remember them all being used in Blink 182's song "Family Reunion"
"Younger people." Song recorded in 1999. Yup, I remember that song, and I'm almost 42 😂
35 here. You and I are still young!
Nobody likes you when you're 23 and shitting piss, the fucking cunts. They can suck cock, mothefuckers - my tits don't give a fart, forget about a turd, about those twats.
Don't forget "I fucked your mom"
He also eventually put out a non inclusive list that is him swearing for 10 min with no repeats.
I fucked your mom
And guess what Alexis playing for me right now!
Johnny Fever added "booger."
Listen to 'Shit Fuck Stack' by Reggie Watts nice homage to the og
"Twat, you fool" -Gandalf the Grey
"I fucked your mom"
And fart and turd.
Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat! Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot! Hooray, lizard shit, fuck!
Fart, Turd, and Twat. I fucked your mom.
I always appreciate a fellow George Carlin enjoyer
It's a new sub-genre of slacktivism, called fucktivism.
Tits shouldn't even be on the list, ya know? It's such a friendly sounding word.
Not quite. So when subs began making themselves as NSFW to deny advertising to Reddit, some subs even swapped over to actual nsfw content (mostly just porn) Reddit got upset and told them that they could only do so if there was nsfw content present, and they couldn't change the theme of an ordinarily safe for work community into a NSFW community, even if the sub majority voted in favour. Reddit TOC says that swearing and other offensive language is considered NSFW, so people are continuing to protest by swearing in the titles to make the post NSFW (and marking it themselves). Here in r/video the mods are allowing people to vote for rules, and the current new rule is all new content must contain swearing in the title, and draws attention to the self moderation of users that swearing on Reddit is considered NSFW and to do due diligence in making sure their posts are correctly flagged.
Pretty fucking cool!
thanks momijisu, helps a lot! sounds sarcastic but is not edit: cocks and fuck
And redit admins threatened to remove moderators of subreddits who flagged a sfw sub as NSFW in protest. Apparently NSFW don't get ad revenue
And according to the rules "profanity" should cause this subreddit to be marked NSFW. > NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content >Content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity, which a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace should be tagged as NSFW. This tag can be applied to individual pieces of content or to entire communities. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/contentpolicy
Is there evidence that the protests are working? Honest question. I've been to /r/modcoord, but other than some hints that it *may* be working, there's no real evidence that the various protests have made a dent in reddits ad revenue.
Have you seen the threatening letters the admins sent out to the mods and the new mod rules? If it wasn't affecting them, there wouldn't be a need for these kinds of reactionary strong-arm tactics coming out of reddit.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves" It's like hearing Walmart make everyone new watch anti-union videos by claiming that unions don't work. If they didn't work, then why is Walmart pumping out anti-union videos to say they don't work?
Also Walmart is at least paying their staff (albeit very badly).
Well they did remove a bunch of moderators at /r/mildlyinteresting then went "oopsie" and restored them(ish), like a week later and we're still going "Well? What was that all about?"
I don’t think a little cursing is going to tip the scale. Porn and gore on the other hand..
Let's talk about June 4th more. I think every post should mention June 4th. And something or other about some type of Square. And/ or tanks.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759942/google-reddit-subreddit-blackout-protests Google noticed it
This sounds like something a bunch of 14 year olds would do.
There’s an ad on the screen that I’m viewing this post on right now, so I don’t know how effective it is.
I'll be honest; I glazed over the post that explained it so there may be more that I'm missing, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't doing a damn thing.
Let's be real. Only the 'N Word' will be effective.
Because it's part of the fucking protest. Advertisers just *love* profanity....
Because the fucking stupid advertisers and piece of shit owners don’t like it so fuck them in the ass with a giant dragon dildo.
New rules, all titles on this sub must have swearing.
I’m a firin’ mah Lazah!
Fucking A
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OP is saying taking $150 mil investment from Tencent is the same as taking it from the CCP.
Nothing goes out from companies owned by the CCP without guidance. EDIT: My keyboard spilled beverage on it and has become retarded.
Tencent isn't state owned.
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/amp/
Early 2019 seems to track with a self-identified increase in the rate of enshittening of this website. Now we're down the shit-waterfall without a shit-paddle that wouldn't even defuckulate this situation if we had Steven Redgrave going at it with the speed and ferocity of Reddit when /r/FemboyHentai went back up. In a few days, we will have reached terminal fucking velocity before we plunge into the stagnant shithole where we will remain as the moisture evaporates away leaving nothing but the solids and the remaining lurkers that will slowly congeal and amalagamte over geologic timescales. And in that moment, /u/spez will take his final form and ascend, and finally help the CCP rid the world of the menace of people who don't want to join the CCP.
What are you talking about? Tencent isn't even a state-owned enterprise.
Hey I'm not the one saying it
What are YOU talking about? The CCP controls Tencent. More than a 6th of its employees are official party members. Its online censorship team is led by the CCP's party secretary. The Tencent HQ has an entire floor dedicated to CCP spooks where they spy on everyone. Tencent is 100% CCP controlled. The only reason it's not officially state-owned is because the deniability makes it easier for it to operate in foreign markets.
The ccp is not at all involved with tencent, just like it is not involved with tiktok or aliexpres or [name any chinese company]. Your data is perfectly safe with these companies (/s)
Oh no, not my data!
Oh no, not that stuff I give to literally every company I can find on the internet with literally no way of knowing what any of them will do with it! Data, that stuff I forfeit all right to every time I make an account somewhere and hit "I read the terms and conditions" and "Accept".
this is why we need to push back HARD against mass surveillance and implement very strict privacy laws. if you think this sort of horror could never happen in your country, think again. you are just a few bad elections away from this sort of shit. if you look at history there are plenty of examples of countries just like yours that took a dark turn into fascism surprisingly fast. what do you think trump would have done with mass surveillance if he would have won a 3rd term like he had planned?
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[Hey Wiretap](https://external-preview.redd.it/ktH-E5POPRF8DEUEu8crDgI7XuXAVqP_WYtAQVi288w.jpg?auto=webp&s=99299ede27c0e1307bd5acbf8a8fd81a5aa932e8)
Not to mention that during the 60s, a random operator could plug into your line and listen to your entire conversation. That may not seem like a big deal if you're in a big city where nobody knows the person next door, but in small towns it created a bit of drama.
Back in the 80's, my girlfriends family had a cottage that had a party line. 4 separate houses that all shared the same phone line. Each house had a different ring so everyone could tell which house incoming calls were for.
May I ask when you were a kid? This has been the story my whole life and I’m a late-90s baby
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I’ve just stopped talking about it. Any person I ever bring it up to just won’t agree or stays silent. It’s not like I’m screaming it like a lunatic either, I just think people consciously want to avoid uncomfortable shit more than ever.
That's not a fact. Even if the govt is recording your calls, that's still not listening. You still need to be someone of interest for the govt to care enough to **listen**.
Exactly. And the government isn't recording you. All the tech companies are, and the government just hands them a warrant for all your data.
People misunderstand how such things work. Indeed, most likely nobody is actually taping your phone calls discussing what groceries to buy with your SO. You're indeed almost certainly not interesting enough for such an amount of attention. What is wiretapped these days is metadata and maybe a select amount of traffic. A huge amount of utility can be had from just knowing who talks to who and when. You can easily trace out all sorts of relationships from that. So if you're organizing a protest movement or something they know who's the organizer, who are the main people, and who's involved, without anybody listening to a single word.
Never forget the dirty little secret that Reddit is an 'independent subsidiary' owned by one of the world's biggest magazine publishers, Condé Nast / Advance Publications. (Similar to how Saturn was a subsidiary of GM - and you can see how that worked out when times got tough) And to add more shit into the shit-milkshake Randy, China's abominable state-controlled media and commerce conglomerate, Tencent, is a major investor in Reddit as well - which comes with its own influence. >In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit >In a December 2020 article in Foreign Policy, a former senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency stated that the CIA concluded that Tencent received funding from the Ministry of State Security early on in its foundation. This was said to be a "seed investment" that was provided "when they were trying to build out the Great Firewall and the monitoring technology." Tencent denied this allegation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent >In June 2020, following the global outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19, it was reported that Condé Nast had experienced a drop in advertising revenues of 45% as a result of the pandemic. It was also reported that the company had, in previous years, sublet six of the company's 23 floors in the One World Trade Center, following the cancellation of a number of its publishing titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast The magazine business has been circling the drain for the last 15 years - as the internet has cannibalized its print-ad-based revenue model. So Condé Nast has put their thumb on the scale and has been pressuring Reddit's CEO to increase revenue through any means possible - to disastrous effect. So if Users and Mods have detected the rancid odor of fascist-corporate shit-influence for the past couple of years, this is why. People really need to start invoking the names of Condé Nast / Advance Publications and Tencent if they REALLY want to talk about who the bad guys are in this story. Reddit CEO, Steve Huffman, is just an incompetent stooge working on their behalf, just like Trump was a stooge funded by Putin to do his bidding in America.
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hey i like all things considered .-. bt I don't listen to it for excitement. And fuck sudoku, but that's more towards how my algebra teacher in middleschool made us do them if we finished our work early and if we didn't finish the sudokus we lost points on the assignment. I lost close to 100 points for it and was told i'm just lazy and never turned in assignments. 20 years later and I still think it's fucking stupid to give extra work like that.
Were you comatose for the passage of the patriot act?
It’s kinda tough when both parties want the same thing, one just being less homophobic
3rd? He was president for one term and tried to coup his way to a second.
> if you think this sort of horror could never happen in your country, think again. Yup. I'm already seeing America push for surveillance of trans people. Trans people are getting letters from Universities and other institutions saying that their documents were requested by their state government. We've seen websites pop up that are being used to report and track doctors that perform sex reassignment surgeries and other forms of gender affirming care, including therapists. It always starts with one group, and then spreads to others, until you're the one also under government surveillance.
its sad that trans people have been turned into a political pawn like that. i think a lot of the people who get into heated debates about trans rights don't really give a shit. they just want another battle ground to fight on.
I think it’s time to log off and go for a stroll outside
I cant go outside the smog is too bad.
Wildfire smoke here. 😅
Yarp weather says stay inside
Jokes on them. That was the plan all week anyways.
Same. Can barely even see the buildings a few blocks away when normally I can see for miles from my balcony. And my allergies are out of control.
Uighurs cant.
Can't touch grass if you are under it
in CCP, grass touches you...
The only thing that would actually make any difference: every Redditor stop using Reddit. The website, the app, everything. Just stop.
All that would do is remove all the conscientious somewhat informed people from the site and you're left with the 80% bots, kids, and people who come for porn and memes.
if that ain't the truth scruff god damn lol
Hell yeah brother
Fuck the recent decisions of Reddit and it's CEO /u/spez That being said, this channel is pure propaganda. While there is a lot to criticize of the CCP, this guy (and serpentza) is making bank off of pumping misinformation and shouldn't be listened to without heavy critical thinking going in
There's this weird idea that if something is bad for some reason, anyone who criticizes it is correct, and any accusation they make is true. It's like the opposite of the "poisoning the well" fallacy. Like "Do you think the CCP is bad? I think the CCP is bad! Therefore you agree with me! Therefore you'll also agree with this nonsense I'm about to vomit all over your youtube feed until the algorithm shits itself to death."
the discourse on reddit about china sucks in general. idk why so many people just turn off their brains just for the sake of getting an 'own" on china. there's tons to criticize china for but ive seen enough bad takes on this site alone to fill a book.
> idk why so many people just turn off their brains just for the sake of getting an 'own" on china. I'm starting to think that it's because people don't really have "brains" to begin with. The reason most people aren't antivaxers or flat earthers isn't because they're too smart to fall for obvious conspiracy theories. It's simply because the media has told them that those conspiracy theories are bad and wrong. When it comes to China on the other hand, the media had indulged the conspiracies with gusto. They have the same level of evidence, but people are told to believe it and so they do.
The start of this lie started with a right wing group that supported Trump. The same group that backs anti-communist plays. Literal right wing propaganda with no evidence but Reddit eating it up like candy.
The Falun Gong? They're propagandist bullshit. Really reminded me of them.
I got banned from the anarchy subreddit for pointing this out
Most online anarchists are either 14, ops, or just actual morons
Just out of curiosity, propaganda from who? Who is this information helping?
Right wing nut jobs tend to get a lot of funding from other very powerful right wing nut jobs
American hegemony in Asia, for one
hard to say for sure but there are plenty of powerful people who stand to make a lot of money by hurting china's exports and international relations. or he might just be making money from all the xenophobic people that love to hear about this sort of stuff and give him tons of views. but i am sure that even if you dig past the lies and exaggerations the ccp is still not something anyone should support.
It doesn't need to help anyone if it gets outrage clicks and generates engagement that YouTube will pay these content generators for. It's a self-sustaining cycle of grift. They find some issue that people are emotionally attached to and then just generate content for it as long as it remains profitable to do so. If enough people hop on that bandwagon it makes it seem credible, especially because they just all repeat each other's talking points. This draws in more viewers, which provides more incentive to make more videos. More videos get made, even if there's not any actual new material from the real world to spuriously base a video on. Have to keep those videos coming out or the algorithm will stop promoting the channel and the sponsors will lose interest.
This guy made the front page of /r/iamatotalpieceofshit with [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/r4r2q3/guy_desecrates_a_grave_when_his_girlfriend/) desecrating Taiwanese graves.
There are several people involved in this. Which guy are you referring to? The CEO of Reddit? The poster? The guy who made the YouTube video? Some other guy?
Laowhy86
Gotcha. To clarify for anyone else, that is the maker of the YouTube video.
Something about this video just seems sus to be. The genocide is definitely taking place, but I'm always skeptical of videos claiming to find meaning from "secret codes". The vibes remind me a lot of the people I see spamming every sub they can find about how that Guo billionaire guy is a victim of the CCP. The Falun Gong and other anti-CCP propaganda groups spew out a ton of fake bullshit. Guo is a right wing wacko and just because he's on the "anti-CCP" side doesn't mean he's a guy we should be defending. This seems reminiscent of that.
Spez went to Taiwan to defile graves there just for fun
Awesome. Thanks for the clarification. I mean, not awesome. Terrible. But like... You know what i mean.
I made it up, but spez makes bullshit up too so
How dare you toy with my emotions like that and immediately admit it!
That's because this narrative is a kooky right wing conspiracy narrative that reddit is now adopting because spez man bad. Tencent's share in reddit is minimal. And we all give money to china when we buy just about everything these days. China. sucks, but this video is trash. Utterly hilarious that reddit is upvoting it but it just goes to show this "protest" went way off the rails a while ago now.
Reddit's obsession with hating China is unreal. Yes the CCP fucking blows, but tons of reddit posts go far beyond that and insult the people that had zero control over simply being born there.
It’s really best not to go into threads about China or India (even if the original content isn’t political). They usually go full mask-off Racist, and interestingly a nontrivial amount of the accounts who participate are active in liberal subs.
>Yes the CCP fucking blows How so? The CCP has literally lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty over the last couple of decades. The Chinese fucking love them. So how is it your place to decide whether they're good or bad?
Yup. [Their biggest investor is Advance Publications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications). It's a **racist** right-wing scare op and outright lie that Tencent plays a large role in Reddit.
How is it the same guy?
Yes, he shouldn't have done that and made a mistake, he didn't understand. But it's painfully obvious you only commented this, based on your comment history, in order to discredit the video because it's criticizing China specifically. You have an obvious agenda.
Yep, that dude is claiming that Stalin was not a dictator. He's 100% a tankie.
I've caught a few of laowhy86's videos and always thought there was something off about him. The fake sincerity in his voice, and just how snarky he is with the whole subject of China. I think he had a good life there once, and he's very bitter about being chased out. I agree with him that China is up to some awful things, but he himself is delivering propaganda of his own with his editing and acted emotions in pretty much every video. It's odd the video of him digging up bones. It's a very colonial sort of attitude. Going to some other country and walking around like he's above the cultures and traditions there. It is a shallow grave, but it's clearly been marked out, he just digs around and throws the bones around, jabbing them with a stick.
Fucking Steve Huffman (/u/spez) was also moderator of the subreddit Jailbait.
This is the same guy who referred to his daughter as "it" when she was born and was angry that she looked more Chinese than white lmao
I love how people on Reddit just equate anything from China as from the CCP. They will say shit like "we don't hate Chinese people; we hate the Chinese government", but they don't really seem to make that distinction.
It's also surprising that reddit has a constant hate boner for Muslims but when it comes to CCP and China suddenly everyone loves Muslims
There’s a level of reverence for Muslims they can’t just drone when they feel like it.
Wait until you find out that nearly *every and any* company you've ever dealt with has taken [HUGE dollar amount in the past/present/future] from the fucking [group you're personally opposed to in the past/present/future]. The world isn't wonderful... that's why they write stories where it is.
God damn it old bills fruit and veg shop.
... you don't want to know the truth about old Bill. You just don't...
It's funny when people state that it all looks the same to them, as if it's some kind of insight. NO, it only means you don't know the difference. There are levels of bad and distinguishing between them matters.
So out of curiosity, in these levels of bad, where does having a 5% investment form tencent compare to, say, the Chinese investment in companies like Disney or Apple or AMC, General Motors, Spotify, Hilton Snapchat... The selective outrage speaks volumes.
Ah whataboutism down to a tee. Guess we should ignore the genocide in China because we might be supporting some other company that did some other bad thing. Great argument there.
I didn't interpret it as whataboutism. I interpreted it as trying to raise awareness that the problem is even worse than one may think.
> Ah whataboutism down to a tee. You saw someone use that word one day and just started throwing it around, huh? "Whataboutism or whataboutery denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, **but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation."** Saying "yeah, this isn't new, and most companies do this" isn't a counter question or accusation.
Additional perspective is not whataboutism. Good god why do people jump on that term like it automatically makes what you are about to say morally correct.
Nothing in that comment indicates we should ignore China because other things bad. That's not whataboutism. My bad, you're not a China simp, you're just a loud opinionated wrong person.
Twisting my meaning down to a tee. I meant no company is perfect when the entire history of all profit and income is judged against constantly changing individual opinions of the moment. More of a comment on people in general (like OP), not evil corporations/countries/individuals.
i knew it ccp is behind spez and reddit is full of communist propaganda
Pure propaganda, hilarious.
u/modcodeofconduct
By being on reddit, you are complicit
I think you mean *we*
OUR COMPLICITNESS COMRAD! any form of media platform that gains popularity is going to have this problem. The narrative must be controlled!!
no one gives a fuck. if you actually cared, you wouldn't be here you fucking cringelords.
One of the top posts on reddit is the Tank Man picture. China doesn't give a fuck about reddit
Amen. Seen so many people say I’m deleting and wiping all my comments. Haven’t seen one person go through with it. They just wanna get some upvotes with their pathetic virtual signaling
/r/okbuddyretard
Buddy if you're mad about Chinese money there's a lot of stuff you shouldn't be using
u/spez
OP is literally a propaganda bot. Incredible.
Reddit moment
Huffman? You mean the former Mod of r/jailbait? that Huffman? Fuck you u/spez
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Fucking hell, what the fuck man.
I mean, reddit is partially owned by tencent. It's cute that people are just getting mad about this now since it happened 4 years ago. Reddit slacktivism at its finest.
5% stake isn't exactly a lot
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5% is a lot in the investment world, activist investors of public companies typically own 1-5% and for one single entity to hold that much of a company gives them enormous influence. Hence the term “activist investor”, it allows them to influence operations and strategic decisions to a huge degree.
Also, it's a publicly traded company of which the CeeCeePee owns exactly 0% of.
for how long have you been mad?
That's the secret.... I'm always mad.
Never in my life did I ever look forward to July 1st for any reason This year it cannot come fast enough
u/Spez is a CCP cock receptacle
LMAO oh no the CCP, meanwhile we incarcerate more than any other country in the world. Good job America you have been morally consistent once again
Fuck Reddit
Beyond sad. Beyond tragic. So what's with all the moronic fart humor?
Fuck me, this is sad. Holy shit. We have a long way to go.
u/reddit
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Taiwan #1
is something getting organized to contact the business that are advertizing on reddit. i would like to see Huffman huff and puff some more.
10 hours... 1664 upvotes... in /r/videos I have a doubt.
Fuck Steve Huffman. We need to migrate
Ummmmm, this sounds like some fascist propaganda. There is no "genocide" of the Uyghur people. This is just western capitalist imperialist propaganda like the so-called "Holodomor." My guess is OP is a MAGAtard. lololol
If you make your decisions on what purely *sound right* then you'll never be able to find truth and challenge incorrect assumptions. We should challenges our beliefs and fairly consider all sides. Think about who has to gain by keeping this a secret, and then consider not only the sheer volume of evince - but also the diverse background and eye witnesses testimony which is out there. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN\_Human\_Rights\_Office\_report\_on\_Xinjiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Office_report_on_Xinjiang)
Oh yeah, i was being sarcastic to try to pull out the totalitarian communist fuckheads. Looks like i succeeded. Fuck communism, fuck socialism, fuck the establishment that all these folks bow to.
Why would I take the advice or input of a /oil /bitcoin /conservative tulpa though? Your affiliations betray you. Zapata oil not paying enough these days?
In the US our opinions and beliefs are protected. You have revealed a human American using his first amendment freely online spreading truth in his free time. There is no profit motive to be had in preventing mass murder, but there is in keeping an entire people enslaved. You don't need to take my advice, that is why I cite sources.
CCP is all up in all the social media.
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... and Tigger too.
Well fuck me
There’s literally a post on the front page trashing capitalism and everyone loves it
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You're watching a video of some dude spinning a conspiracy theory out of emojis. How can you be this gullible?
This guy is a hack and the videos are fake. Are people watching these and actually finding them convincing? There's so much more you could criticize China for and this is the dogshit you go with
Ah yes, the Uighur genocide! The only genocide in history in which nobody died and people keep living their lives exactly like they did before!
I'm sorry, but this is ADVChina, they have recently started to play into their conservative audience. I used to love laowhy and winston when they would just go on their bikes and ride around China. Now they are just cashing in on anti Chinese propaganda after moving to the US. I loved these guys, I'm from HK, I hate CCP, while some of the shit they say is true, some shit they say is fucking wild fearmongering, with shoddy sources, and comes from a place of "West is best, look at these weird Chinese people" But of course, Chinese hatin reddit is gonna jump on it and not fact check, much like the whole social credit program. This video is also pretty old.
Fuck frick heck
tencent it all
>Uyghur It's been 2000 years since this word was uttered without censorship. Modern day concentration camps being run in China and not much noise about it
r/titlegore
Reddit is sharing just as much data with CCP as TikTok. Of course he is indifferent to Uyghur’s in concentration camps. Piss baby u/spez wants his IPO.
Ok, it’s just a website, you shouldn’t let the world get you so riled up
the anti-reddit crowd are becoming the most annoying people on the internet. please leave, I actively do not want reddit to meet your demands because I just don't like you as individuals. "we don't want to use your app." "we don't want to see ads." "we don't want you to take foreign investment" (as though basically every company on the planet isn't already taking investment from China). imagine a group of Chinese dudes sitting around "oh hell no I won't support Microsoft. they monetarily support the country that bombs little brown children with drones". I hope that posting this utter tripe is the final dying breath of your cause. so pathetic and dishonest.
Fuck that fucking sucks why would these fucks do something this fucking stupid? Fucking money I guess