r/technology • u/UnscheduledCalendar • Jan 07 '25

Social Media Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White

https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/
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u/macrocephalic Jan 08 '25

You're showing your internet age even remembering him now!

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u/bob1689321 Jan 08 '25

He was still active for a while after the scandal. /u/UnidanX iirc

In hindsight it's all quite quaint now. One guy using alts to upvote his posts is nothing compared to the bot farms running the default subs now.

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u/CrzyWrldOfArthurRead Jan 08 '25

Reddit was such a different place once upon a time. There were reddit celebrities, who's only claim to fame was that they showed up in the comments sections a lot.

simpler times.

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u/Mysterious-Job-469 Jan 08 '25

It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. Reddit also used to be a hub for softcore child porn and involuntary pornography. Remember r/creepshots? What about r/Jailbait? Those Subreddits were allowed to flourish for years when Reddit was desperate for traffic.

I want to be clear: I 100%, 1000% believe shutting those Subreddits down was the morally right thing to do, but it feels like they only did it to preserve their reputation once they had wrung all the controversy, traffic, and attention that it had to provide to their website.