{"pay":{"alg":"ES256","iat":1743896593,"tmb":"rOfwGUIvjl7Om99gKGlpYnQSte3XzmL78f0A04bay14","typ":"cyphr.me/comment/create","root":"FUIPw1ycF2bL_QFko4RWVQvOJaHzp54QahBZchTLIvI","text":"As a moderator, I see reddit itself remove comments all the time. We have no reason to trust reddit's voting system as it's not audited or proven to be trustworthy.  There's also the problem of brigading and opaque influence from outside the community. \n\nFrom news and events we know that reddit games the voting system, justifying their \"adjustments\" as \"anti-gaming\".  There's no transparency about how this is done.  We know that the admins are radical leftists, [who have even edited comments that they don't like](https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments), along with banning hundreds of thousands of communities.  So not only are they willing to censor your speech, they're willing to even edit what you say.  Note that these edits in the linked article were targeted exclusively on a right-leaning demographic. There's also the issue of reddit literally stealing coins that individuals paid for, another rookie move tarnishing their image.\n\nWe also know that the left has had no issue with perverting public discourse with government funded programs like the \"[Disinformation Governance Board](https://nypost.com/2022/04/28/joe-biden-under-fire-for-dystopian-disinformation-bureau)\".  This is straight from the early 1900's Bolshevik's (communist) playbook on manufacturing public sentiment.  The [Election Integrity Partnership](https://nypost.com/2023/11/22/opinion/the-feds-censorship-machine-rolls-on-even-as-election-fraud-cases-keep-coming-to-light/) (EIP), funded partly by federal money, flagged millions of posts, mostly right-leaning users, for removal or suppression. A 2024 House Judiciary reported that it intentionally tilted public opinion by silencing dissent.\n\nThere's much more to say about all of this, but the best thing we can do as individuals is educate ourselves about these subversions, remain skeptical of anything presented on reddit, and exit from dishonest and inauditable platforms like reddit."},"sig":"cjuQMjE9YqIqeJj90Kx6MyH4Y4QgTtN_QswVvQBkJRcU835DGolydcPMdVaiQxUNZid--mXJErojMUbpib2xOA"}

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