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There's been a concerted, organized effort to ban any media that's not beating the war drums this week.
Reddit just banned it and its users are pissed off.
Reddit Censorship? Russia Today (RT) Cries Foul Over /R/News Ban, But Reddit Says Blame The Moderator
By Christopher Zara
on August 30 2013 5:59 PM
RT, Russia’s state-backed news organization, is crying foul after its website was banned from one of Reddit’s most popular forums.
In a blog post on Friday, RT blasted the popular vote-oriented message board, saying it had been kicked off the /r/news subreddit for alleged spamming and vote manipulation. The news outlet said it “views the sanctions as an act of censorship.”
Not so, says Reddit. Victoria Taylor, a spokeswoman for the website, told International Business Times in an email that subreddit moderators make their own decisions about what content is allowed on their forums. Reddit, she said, had no role in this particular decision.
“It is the prerogative of each individual subreddit’s moderators (like /r/news) to allow or ban domains, users, posts, comments, etc as they wish,” Taylor said. “As we are not moderators of /r/news, we were not involved or consulted on this decision.”
On Thursday, Reddit user douglasmacarthur, a head moderator for /r/news, posted that RT had been banned for spam and vote manipulation. The post has since attracted almost 1,000 comments, many critical of the decision to ban a news site from a news forum.
“Censorship amuck and fair reporting is gone from reddit,” one user wrote.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/reddit-censorship-russia-today-rt-cries-foul-over-rnews-ban-reddit-says-blame-moderator-1402016
By Christopher Zara
on August 30 2013 5:59 PM
RT, Russia’s state-backed news organization, is crying foul after its website was banned from one of Reddit’s most popular forums.
In a blog post on Friday, RT blasted the popular vote-oriented message board, saying it had been kicked off the /r/news subreddit for alleged spamming and vote manipulation. The news outlet said it “views the sanctions as an act of censorship.”
Not so, says Reddit. Victoria Taylor, a spokeswoman for the website, told International Business Times in an email that subreddit moderators make their own decisions about what content is allowed on their forums. Reddit, she said, had no role in this particular decision.
“It is the prerogative of each individual subreddit’s moderators (like /r/news) to allow or ban domains, users, posts, comments, etc as they wish,” Taylor said. “As we are not moderators of /r/news, we were not involved or consulted on this decision.”
On Thursday, Reddit user douglasmacarthur, a head moderator for /r/news, posted that RT had been banned for spam and vote manipulation. The post has since attracted almost 1,000 comments, many critical of the decision to ban a news site from a news forum.
“Censorship amuck and fair reporting is gone from reddit,” one user wrote.
...
http://www.ibtimes.com/reddit-censorship-russia-today-rt-cries-foul-over-rnews-ban-reddit-says-blame-moderator-1402016
RT.com has been banned on Reddit’s /r/news section, with moderators accusing it of spamming. Puzzled with absurd allegations, RT views the sanctions as an act of censorship with many redditors expressing the same concern.
The announcement of the ban appeared on Reddit at around 12:30 GMT Thursday, with the forum's leading moderator posting: "RT.com has been banned for spam and vote manipulation." It was soon followed by another message, saying that “brigading the thread, downvoting, and crying aren't going to change it, sorry.”
RT immediately contacted the moderators of the /r/news section, as well as Reddit's press office, to request an explanation. But in more than 24 hours no details that could clarify what may have led to the ban have been provided to RT by Reddit.
Reddit’s press office instead replied that it is not consulted by subreddits about their decisions.
“To clarify, it is the prerogative of each individual subreddit's moderators to allow or ban domains from being submitted to their subreddits,” Victoria Taylor, of Reddit’s press service, said. “As we are not moderators of /r/news, we were not involved or consulted on this decision. You would need to appeal to the moderators of /r/news about their decision and address their concerns individually.”
RT has received no reply yet from douglasmacarthur, the moderator of Reddit’s /r/news section.
But later another redditor, BipolarBear0, listed as one of the moderators for the section, said in a comment on the website that there was “no vote manipulation,” calling it “an oversight there, but an honest mistake” by a moderator.
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Responding to Michael Reed, co-founder of the Restore the Fourth movement, BipolarBear0 said he had nothing do with the decision to ban RT.com, but added he had in general been advocating that, “Simply because… It’s the Kremlin.”
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RT’s leading web analyst, Aleksey Naumov, said there were no grounds for the moderator to accuse RT.com of spamming.
“Over the last two years, RT’s traffic has increased four- or five-fold,” Naumov said. “Quite naturally, during this period the number of submissions of our materials to Reddit.com, as well as the number of referrals from Reddit to our website, has increased. It’s not difficult to check that it’s not the same people, but different people, who are submitting our stories to Reddit.”
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http://rt.com/news/rt-reddit-ban-censorship-169/
The announcement of the ban appeared on Reddit at around 12:30 GMT Thursday, with the forum's leading moderator posting: "RT.com has been banned for spam and vote manipulation." It was soon followed by another message, saying that “brigading the thread, downvoting, and crying aren't going to change it, sorry.”
RT immediately contacted the moderators of the /r/news section, as well as Reddit's press office, to request an explanation. But in more than 24 hours no details that could clarify what may have led to the ban have been provided to RT by Reddit.
Reddit’s press office instead replied that it is not consulted by subreddits about their decisions.
“To clarify, it is the prerogative of each individual subreddit's moderators to allow or ban domains from being submitted to their subreddits,” Victoria Taylor, of Reddit’s press service, said. “As we are not moderators of /r/news, we were not involved or consulted on this decision. You would need to appeal to the moderators of /r/news about their decision and address their concerns individually.”
RT has received no reply yet from douglasmacarthur, the moderator of Reddit’s /r/news section.
But later another redditor, BipolarBear0, listed as one of the moderators for the section, said in a comment on the website that there was “no vote manipulation,” calling it “an oversight there, but an honest mistake” by a moderator.
...
Responding to Michael Reed, co-founder of the Restore the Fourth movement, BipolarBear0 said he had nothing do with the decision to ban RT.com, but added he had in general been advocating that, “Simply because… It’s the Kremlin.”
...
RT’s leading web analyst, Aleksey Naumov, said there were no grounds for the moderator to accuse RT.com of spamming.
“Over the last two years, RT’s traffic has increased four- or five-fold,” Naumov said. “Quite naturally, during this period the number of submissions of our materials to Reddit.com, as well as the number of referrals from Reddit to our website, has increased. It’s not difficult to check that it’s not the same people, but different people, who are submitting our stories to Reddit.”
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http://rt.com/news/rt-reddit-ban-censorship-169/
But the Qatari royal family that's ready to kill every last person standing in the way of their pipeline is ok.
The Cold War is up and running because the world won't buy our bogus intel for a few elites.
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