Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet

The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden.


Similarly, the moderators at the even bigger r/worldnews reddit (over 5 million readers) repeatedly deleted the story, so that each new post had to start over at zero.


For example, here are a number of posts deleted from r/news (click any image for much larger/clearer version):




Related posts from other sites – like 21stCenturyWire – were deleted as well:


And here are a number of the posts deleted by the moderators of r/worldnews:




Write-ups of the same story from other sites – like Zero Hedge – were also deleted:


Two Redditors provide further information on the censorship of this story:



This isn’t the first time Reddit moderators have been caught censoring:





Source links: Here, here, here, here, here and here.






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