r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 23d ago

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313203719/https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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u/joecool42069 23d ago

Reddit has what, 15 years of analytics? I bet they can see civil unrest coming. You can smell it in the air.

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u/LittleMsSavoirFaire 23d ago

It's the last major platform not tied to personal identities

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u/aft_punk 23d ago

I get ads in the reddit app that are %100 driven by my desktop Google searches.

It is shockingly easy to connect the dots that need to be connected to link your reddit account to your other personal accounts.

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u/huskersax 23d ago

That's more to do with google adsense I'd suspect.