



REDDIT ADMINS AND DEFAULT MODS HAVE BEEN CONSPIRING HOW BEST TO CENSOR US

/u/spez is the CEO of the 27th largest website in the world. He controls about 6.25% of Conde Nast/Advance Publications' media arsenal. (Same people that run Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker. That pretentious #.)



What he did: He edited comments critical of himself without leaving a trace. It was found out because the comments were changed in an obvious manner. He intended this to be a joke. The problem is there was no trace they were edited.



What this means: The Admins have this capability. This should not be a surprise. The Admins use this capability. This ought to be a bit of a surprise. They do it to comments critical of themselves as a joke. Does this mean they do it hide things critical of their Advance Overlords? Have they ever done this to 'frame' someone for breaking site rules to ban them or a subreddit?



More pure implications: The CEO of a major media company edited the comments of Trump supporters because he did not like what they had to say. He did this after allowing the Washington Post to cite the thread he changed comments in for an article. This calls into question the integrity of the website. Not in a "muh free spech" sense, but in a legal sense. How many court cases are riding on user history submitted as evidence? Stonetear as just one example.



Reddit allows illegal activities like /r/fakeid to persist, but edits the comments of Trump supporters because they were mean to the CEO personally? I'm sorry Spez (not really, actually, though I understand), but I'm pretty sure you're done here. Conde Nast isn't going to tolerate the #storm you've brewed. PR and legal wise, huge # up. Possibly the biggest in this site's history. One more thing.... Impersonating another person, i.e. user, violates reddit TOS. The CEO violating TOS may be seen as a breach of contract leaving reddit liable to anyone who had their comment altered.







[stonetear] was an admin for the infamous Clinton e-mail server. During the investigation he was offered immunity but still refused to testify. Recently it was found that a couple years ago, he posted on Reddit asking for help sanitizing some data from the e-mail archives. Depending on who you ask, the request was anywhere from completely innocuous (replacing e-mail addresses with generic placeholders but keeping the names intact) or highly illegal. As soon as this was found out, he went through deleting every one of his posts. So now the investigations are firing back up because of possible new evidence and Reddit is apparently getting asked to cooperate by turning over the deleted posts.



Credit to Velostodon of reddit:Reddit CEO /u/spez was critical of The_Donald sub posts. Many members found themselves shadowbanned ( had their posts hidden from other members without any indication of being banned) Spez received posts swearing at him "f**k u/spez/" (lots and lots of swearing on reddit) and changed his name to The_Donald to read "f**k The_Donald"Although it may seem a minor issue the implications of this are huge: posts from Reddit have in the past been used as admissible evidence in court. If this evidence could be changed or tampered with it perverts the course of justice. Most recently was the case of stonetear;cred to throwaway234f32423dfTheoretically his lawyers can now argue that the evidence against stonetear could have been changed to implicate him or completely change his posts to downplay his involvement.I just wonder what else could have been secretly been changed to incriminate redditors to get them banned, to change the record etc. I'm so sick of propaganda on one side of the mediascape and accusations of fake news on the other. When did journos and media platforms loose their integrity.