Reddit censoring words like: NSA, Tesla, Bitcoin, net neutrality
Source: hangthebankers.com
Say what you want about Reddit‘s r/technology, one of its most popular forums. Just don’t say “NSA,” “net neutrality,” “Comcast,” “Bitcoin,” or any of the roughly 50 other words that will secretly get your post deleted.There’s a bot in r/technology, ready to delete any so-called controversial headline you try to submit.
In July, Reddit dropped two controversial subreddits, r/atheism and r/politics, from being automatic subscriptions for new users. Given redditors’ frequent complaints about overzealous moderators, r/technology, which boasts more than 5 million subscribers, could be considered their heir as the subreddit everybody loves to complain about.
As such, an intrepid redditor, creq, put together a list of words he found were suspiciously underrepresented on the subreddit. Almost all of them have at least two qualities: they’re commonly found in the intersection of technology and politics, and they can be seen as controversial, or at least likely to inspire anger in a few people.
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Here is the list of some of the filtered words:
Restore the Fourth (never shows up at all)
NSA
Comcast
Anonymous
Time Warner
CISPA
SOPA
TPP
Swartz
FCC
Tesla
net neutrality
Bitcoin
GCHQ
Snowden
spying
Clapper
Congress
Obama
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