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Didn't read any of that but good luck

This IS NOT Voat. This is a place where lame assholes hang. There's a few cool people here but it is a b oring fuck hole of lame ass retards. All the characters were spread out into the wind. Some of the cool people who tried to come here got run off and now you have... this.

When reddit joos did away with "Coontown" I dropped them.

I miss coontown. I remember all that. It will end up being erased and replaced with some bullshit in the history books.

We have been through... Years of scrolling, where we get upset about the thing of the week. We type comments and sometimes single out a single user and shit on them. Then we do it again the next day.

Kinda see voat as a bar where "everybody knows your name".

Functionally it's a place where you can hash out your thoughts with people who actually fucking get it, distilled.

During 2016 it used to be a place where real info could get out. Before Drudge was taken over the places for real up to date news were voat, drudge (for confirmation), and thedonald.

Now voat has lost a lot of people presumably because they don't know where to find it. Also this voat is so loaded with feds and sleeper accounts it's 'f'ing ridiculous'.

Humouressly useless almost. The feds do atleast know what's right so they'll help you hash out a thought in the right direction when it doesn't conflict with their current operatives. Otherwise always hilarious when they confirm a fringe thought of yours is hyper true by coming out of the wood work from no where all together to attack it.

I can remember most in your story. I wasnt into reddit probly as much as you were, but that was the gist of it.

Reading your story reminds me of how those in charge seem to control everything. A person has to be able to look at the bigger picture.

The start of censorship on reddit reminds me of 'slowly boiling the frog' situation where a little is taken at a time to achieve desired outcome.

With the use of computer surveillance, little time is left before being charged for merely existing will become the norm.

Do you remember when Reddit had no subreddits?

So when a top post got to the top it was seen by all 20 million or so people that looked at Reddit every morning.

And then suddenly a few posts got to the top like the one that said that health insurance companies took your money for months and months and months and then when you got really sick and it was going to cost them a ton of money they went back through your health history and found something to say that you didn't declare something and then they dropped you and that that was common practice it wasn't an unusual thing.

And that started a real fury about health insurance that affected the politics of the day dramatically. This was before Obamacare existed in frankly probably was one of the reasons that at that time most of the people supported universal health Care because stories kept coming out about how insurance companies cheated you.

Anyway it was not long after things like that started to dramatically affect the power structure that was in effect that Reddit was purchased by the big Jewish family that owned a bunch of other media and I forgotten their name now but you can look it up.

One of the first things they did was divide read it up into subreddits so that if you were quote right or left or Republican or Democrat you only saw the stuff that was in the subreddit that you chose to be a member of because very few people chose to follow subreddits that they didn't agree with. So suddenly 20 million people could not be educated about something they never knew about. Once again just like in television the people only saw the things in their group that the people wanted to see so no one ever became aware of the fact that something else was going on. Just like the old Fox News versus MSNBC ridiculousness that goes on still today.

And then after they broke it in the subreddit suddenly they brought in moderators. And people were moderators of these subreddits and then it just became harder and harder to get anything actually interested interesting posted. I got banned then several times. You had to make up several different accounts. You'd have one for one thing and one for another and then one that would touch on politics and that one would get banned and so you'd create another one

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Now before read it even existed there was something called the Yahoo news groups and that was a spin-off of the old news groups feeds that ran on a different form of the internet where you would download everybody's messages from that particular News group onto your computer through your mail program your email program and you had fantastic discussions going on about everything.

And then Yahoo came in and they put a front end on that and so did Google also did that Google also started indexing all the old news groups and Yahoo news did

But Yahoo news had the front end that was a easy web server front end and they were political discussions on there that were fantastic and technological discussions that were fantastic. This was back in the early internet when only smart people had computers and boy did it make a difference in the level of the discussions that you had.

But in any case I remember one particular discussion that came up and it was around the time George Bush was running against John Kerry for president I believe and a guy who was in charge of Sinclair broadcasting bought a whole bunch of TV stations or radio stations. Local ones. and he decided to do something I forget what to promote George w Bush's presidential campaign.

And people organized a boycott to dump Sinclair broadcastings stock which really tanked it. I mean it made a big difference and cost a lot of people a lot of money.

So this was even before Reddit and it just showed the power of these news groups

Unsurprisingly years later even though Google had an indexed all these news groups and you could go back and search through them historically and instantly find any old discussions in an amazing amount of information then all of a sudden Google just decided to destroy their index and so you couldn't access any of that stuff anymore.

And not too long after that Yahoo news groups also destroyed their news groups even though they were very popular and it probably cost them absolutely nothing to maintain that on their servers they decided to destroy all that information

And it was about this time that digg came along and then reddit.

And of course one of the founders of Reddit was that kid who was always trying to do good and he was the one that went to MIT and it was legal at MIT to do unlimited downloads of all the medical research papers if you were a student there so he set up a server in one of the computer rooms there to literally download all medical journals and he was going to do a study of the health effects and all kinds of conflict of interest and stuff in these medical journals and the FBI was called in they found the server they arrested him they were going to charge him with years and years of prison time and so he killed himself supposedly.

And this was all in spite of the fact that it was legal if you were at MIT to download to have unrestricted access to all those online medical journals.

So he was one of the original founders of Reddit and apparently he was also against the sale of Reddit to the large Jewish Media company that it eventually got sold to.

And the guy who owned dig who was a media darling and an internet star it for a while also knew Mark Zuckerberg when Mark Zuckerberg was just starting facebook. And people were talking about Mark Zuckerberg and what a scumbag he was and this that the other and the guy who had started dig said that Zuckerberg was doing something very interesting with Facebook and no one knew what he was talking about.

Well of course what it came out to be was Zuckerberg was getting everybody to put a link to Facebook onto all their own websites which automatically tracked everybody when they went to all these other websites and then of course Zuckerberg also got everybody to load all their own friends names into his website so he did with the KGB used to take thousands of KGB agents to do which was yet the networks that everybody had of all their friends and what all their friends were doing and what their interests were and what they were saying to each other and he did that all by rewarding people with the opportunity to post pictures of themselves in their own life bragging about what they did because everybody kind of wanted to be a star and Facebook was the first website that allowed you to create your own celebrity page. And people were so interested in doing that and promoting themselves to all their friends that they willingly gave up all their friends names and they put a little anchor tag for Facebook on all their own websites which allowed with Facebook to track everything about their life like the KGB used to do. Even to a greater extent than Google could do. Google previously would index everybody by what they searched for but Zuckerberg with Facebook came out and figured out a way to get everybody to report who their own friends were who their networks were and what they were saying to their closest friends and family and even Google didn't do that.