Reddit users submit content and vote submissions "up" or "down" to determine their position on the pages of the site. These votes give a user 'Karma', one for links and one for comments. The best content would reach the front page, hence the slogan "the front page of the internet." Reddit was a defining representation of democratization of culture and promoting the free flow of knowledge across the net. As the site grew and new CEOs took over, free speech became a casualty. Content and groups have been deleted by corporate management, this has generated a loud backlash. The [[Chinese]] company Tencent has a 10% stake in the company, and this results in anything mentioning the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] or rightfully blaming China for [[COVID-19]] being banned, and allows racist subreddits such as r/Sino to thrive.
Unlike other social media sites, the user page consists largely of previous posts and comments, no detailed user information, no avatar, no real names requirement, no friends list, no bio.
==Conservative subreddits==
Despite the overwhelming liberal bias on Reddit, there are a small number of subreddits a with conservative populations; such as r/Conservative and r/Republican. However, many conservative subreddits have been [[censorship|censored]] by Reddit. r/pizzagate, was banned<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzagate-we-dont-want-witchhunts-our-site</ref> as well as r/The_Donald being unfairly banned for being "anti-police" after a [[Media_Matters_for_America|Media Matters]] hit piece was released. Recently, in 2020, r/Wuhan_Flu was quarantined, within 3 days of its creation.<ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddit-full-calls-violence-support-oregon-republicans. Oddly enough subreddits like R/Communism, R/Beholdthemasterrace and R/Fragilewhiteredditor, R/Fuckthealtright have not been banned and have thousands of followers dispite being hypocritical of reddits "anti harrassment policy." </ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/</ref><ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/</ref><ref>http://archive.is/u61WC</ref> On August 23 2021 a Reddit user made a post on the [[Marxism|Marxist]] subreddit r/vaxxhappened calling for Reddit to "take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the</ref> What this Redditor meant by "take action" is for Reddit to censor views that opppose [[Vaccine_mandate|vaccine mandates]] and [[Covid_lockdown|totalitarian lockdowns]]. This post was reposted to hundreds of other subreddits resulting in Reddit making the decision on September 3 2021, influenced by Chinese oligarchs, to quarantine and ban dozens of [[freedom|pro-free speech]] subreddits such as r/NoNewNormal.<ref>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-active-covid-misinformation-subreddit-nonewnormal/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/04/censor-happy-reddit-bans-links-to-russian-state-media/</ref>
However, many There is also a spike in subreddits that claim to be conservative subreddits have been censored by Redditbut will ban you for being too MAGA for reddit. r/pizzagate, was banned<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzagate-we-dont-want-witchhunts-our-site</ref> as well as r/The_Donald being unfairly banned stupidfuckingliberals for example will ban you for being "anti-policepreaching to the choir" after a [[Media_Matters_for_America|Media Matters]] hit piece was released(reminding people that Democrats are responsible for Jim Crow laws). RecentlyThough their mod 1plus1equals8 claims to hate liberals, in 2020, r/Wuhan_Flu was quarantined, within 3 days of its creationhe may indeed be compromised by them. <ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddit-full-calls-violence-support-oregon-republicans</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/</ref><ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/</ref><ref>http://archive.is/u61WC</ref>
==Capitalist subreddits==
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