President Donald Trump’s “bonkers” announcement Thursday that he plans to release government files related to alien life raised an immediate red flag for some journalists, and two of whom warned that the announcement was a clear smoke screen to distract the public from something far more nefarious.W...
The UFO community has been wanting Trump to and suggesting Trump would do this for years. And at least on Reddit, they can’t stand anyone pointing out that it’s all just to garner attention and support from a fringe base. And to sow distrust in government institutions. (they won’t tell you the truth, but I will etc)
I was banned for pointing this out because it was “off topic”.
I hope this at least brings real proper reporting and debunking to the subject. Fringe online media, and conservative mainstream media already cover this just to placate their base. And they can’t call it bullshit, or offer balanced reporting on it because they will offend the people they are trying to rope in.
And hey, if it turns out the US really does know stuff they have tried to keep from the public, that would be cool. But after following this during the pandemic era, like many people did, I came to the conclusion that most of it is rehashed bullshit and circular reporting and grifters telling stories for attention. It’s also clear that the topic is exploited for ulterior motives by governments. Someone elsewhere in this thread listed a few concrete examples. And this looks like this will be the largest such exploitation of the topic ever.
Also, I love how the slug for this story is just “trump” with a long string of numbers. It really represents the news cycles of our time.
Those subreddits are exceptionally forgiving toward very bad actors in politics for ‘DisCLosUr3’.
I’m not surprised you were banned for that, it’s a topic they don’t want the mirror held up to.
Reddit’s entire business model is as a censorship engine. If you write a good post, topical and relevant in an appropriate sub reddit then some butt hurt Moderator will do one of 3 things… Remove it, Lock it, Ban you from participating, or all 3 usually all 3. Its not a bug its a feature.
I don’t like to be that broad about things. This is because I know how difficult it is to do moderation. There are so many shitheads in the world who will disrupt curated spaces. They ruin it for everyone, and that leads to needing strict policies that otherwise wouldn’t be needed in a more civil space.
But with the r/ufos, I’m down with calling out their over moderation and terrible justification for removing many things. And in their case, it’s because they are trying to insulate themselves from the flood of attention they are getting post pandemic era from people who poke their head in, realize how much bullshit is going on in the scene, and then point it out.
Over the past six years the sub has seen a steady increase in people who are not just there to listen to story time. And these new people are fed up with the nonsense, and they call it out. And this isn’t being a team player. People want their story time. The people in control of the sub don’t want critical opinions to outnumber those of the belivers.
So yeah. I’m not on the side of broadly talking shit about moderators across the platform, or any platform. That’s stupid.
You know who sounds like you do here? r/ufos people who try to post UFO grifter slop on r/politics or r/science. They sound just like you, even though they are posting trash in subs that must have strict moderation lest they become overrun with nonsense and noise. Those subs get sooo much traffic. Etc. etc. etc.
I don’t feel stupid, I dislike moderation unless its in a nuclear reactor, or its used to combat spam or abuse. Other than that people should be able to run with whats on their mind at any given time. I wrote what I believe to be true there is an entrenched core engaged in shaping the conversation along the lines of their own belief and if you stray or effectively engage , you receive their attention. I have largely moved on from there as in my personal experience its a ‘‘censorship engine’’ No private comments any more all content on the site is to be consumed and reviewe d for the corporate governance. I want the ability to chat with people on matters of experimental consequence or chat shit as the mood strikes. What ever Reddit was its not anymore.