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Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him

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668 points wildmusings | 3 comments | 24 Nov 16 00:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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JorgeGT ◴[24 Nov 16 01:04 UTC] No.13027099[source]▶
And without an "edited" mark, which means that any comment of any user can be covertly modified by an admin. Very concerning since Reddit comments have provoked even Congress hearings: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/296680-house-pan...
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wvenable ◴[24 Nov 16 01:10 UTC] No.13027119[source]▶
The fact is anything digital can be modified this way; it's probably good that it happens and there are public examples so people learn not to trust it.
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ErikAugust ◴[24 Nov 16 01:23 UTC] No.13027197[source]▶
Would be good to have some distributed model (like Bitcoin, etc.) for message platforms like Reddit?
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qwertyuiop924 ◴[24 Nov 16 01:32 UTC] No.13027257[source]▶
Yeah. That would be great. I'd go so far as to say that it would be a really Useful network. If you catch my drift.
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DonHopkins ◴[24 Nov 16 01:50 UTC] No.13027363[source]▶
It might even develop its own alt.right community.
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qwertyuiop924 ◴[24 Nov 16 01:54 UTC] No.13027383[source]▶
Naturally.

I mean, where else would the right-leaning Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists hang out?

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SSLy ◴[24 Nov 16 09:49 UTC] No.13029374{3}[source]▶
Um, conflating anarcho-capitalists with alt-right is passe. https://fee.org/articles/five-differences-between-the-alt-ri...
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qwertyuiop924 ◴[24 Nov 16 09:58 UTC] No.13029412{4}[source]▶
...You didn't get it.
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SSLy ◴[24 Nov 16 17:36 UTC] No.13031531{5}[source]▶
No, I did not. Mind explaining?
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1. qwertyuiop924 ◴[24 Nov 16 18:13 UTC] No.13031766{6}[source]▶
Don was talking about alt.right (obviously a play on alt-right: but probably also the alt-right news group, if there is one). However, the standard acronym expansion for the alt hierarchy on the usenet (it actually stands for alternative) is Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists: partly a running gag and partly because alt.* was (and still is) the wild west of the usenet: a lawless wasteland, with the occasional specks of civilization.
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2. DanBC ◴[24 Nov 16 18:16 UTC] No.13031798[source]▶
> partly because alt.* was (and still is) the wild west of the usenet: a lawless wasteland, with the occasional specks of civilization.

...and even that was too restricted for some people, which is one of the reasons free.* was set up.

http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/faqs/free/

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3. qwertyuiop924 ◴[24 Nov 16 18:48 UTC] No.13032034[source]▶
For some people, any restriction is too much. It's the 4chan vs 8chan thing.