“It’s time we grow up,” says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

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    1 year ago

    It’s well known and accepted that the Chinese government has significant control of Chinese companies, and Reddit is partially owned by Tencent. That’s not xenophobic.

    The fact that it’s something like a 5% stake is more relevant.

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      1 year ago

      Read the below response. https://lemmy.ml/comment/750332

      Condé Nast and one American VC hold more shares than Tencent, plus Reddit is astroturfed by US military, as seen during 2015. https://old.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_their_blog_post_identifying/

      The root of “Tencent CCP own Reddit” conspiracy literally lies in r/conspiracy to spread xenophobic sentiments against China. Anyone perpetuating this nonsense will face a ban after this.

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        1 year ago

        “a literal US military arm” is just as ridiculous. It’s neither.

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          1 year ago

          Far, far less ridiculous than “Chinese government controlled”, as there is real proof of US military astroturfers, as shown above, and Reddit even suppresses this information intentionally. The whole of frontpage is suspiciously filled with pro-US imperialist propaganda and an anti-China/Russia article every week with dozens of awards.

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            1 year ago

            And you think there aren’t Russian and Chinese propagandists on Reddit?

            pro-US imperialist propaganda

            Right. Like all those school kids getting shot.