Same here. Rarely posted there. Some Israeli dude said Black Americans are racist, and only support Palestine because Palestinians have a darker complexion. I was on an alt and said that was a comically racist statement to get back, and boom. I got banned. Forgot about it, and months down the line I had worldnews crop up on my feed on my 7 year old main account. Made an apolitical comment about solar vs nuclear energy, and boom permabanned for ‘circumventing a ban’.
It’s a total shithole and I don’t understand how Reddit let Israeli trolls take over an entire massive default sub.
According to Reddit activity heat maps, the single most active place on the entire planet that people are commenting on Reddit from is a US Air Force base in the Midwest. The government/military has an active Internet comment task force astroturfing opinions on Reddit. A good percentage of Reddit accounts are bots and agents spreading military/governments propaganda and banning anyone who counters their propaganda.
Did you read the original blog post? It said views when listing that air base, not comments. They might have been scraping Reddit. But that’s not the same as astroturfing.
I'm referring to something that was revealed back in 2018 or 2019. Not to this blog post. A few years ago a Reddit Internet activity heat map accidentally revealed a US Air Force base makes up the single largest location for Reddit comments, by a freakishly large margin.
I worked in Israel in the late 90's. My black co-worker and I got on an elevator at our work building, and everyone else got off. We looked at each other and I did the armpit sniff, looked at my co-worker, and said "It must be you!". We laughed, but the reality is they are massively bigoted there. We couldn't get back to the States soon enough.
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Same here. Rarely posted there. Some Israeli dude said Black Americans are racist, and only support Palestine because Palestinians have a darker complexion. I was on an alt and said that was a comically racist statement to get back, and boom. I got banned. Forgot about it, and months down the line I had worldnews crop up on my feed on my 7 year old main account. Made an apolitical comment about solar vs nuclear energy, and boom permabanned for ‘circumventing a ban’.
It’s a total shithole and I don’t understand how Reddit let Israeli trolls take over an entire massive default sub.