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...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.
Would be good to have some distributed model (like Bitcoin, etc.) for message platforms like Reddit?
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.
It might even develop its own alt.right community.
Naturally.
I mean, where else would the right-leaning Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists hang out?
No, I did not. Mind explaining?
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.