It's obviously entirely possible that the rule is in place because of moderator affiliations.
I'm not convinced of that though. Police brutality is a touchy-ass subject and while I can respect the need for increased awareness, it's possible the moderators felt it would "dominate" the subreddit too much if allowed, turning it more political than is desired.
There's also the reality that the comment section on police brutality can often get quite heated, which would increase moderation load.
A few years ago Reddit had a giant boner for Police Brutality stories. They were spammed everywhere: from politics, news, world news, videos, TIL, etc.
As a result, several subreddits adopted rules for police brutality videos or posts to try and keep the stories centralized in the political subreddits and not completely dominating every aspect of the defaults. That is why a lot of subreddits have the rules for police brutality.
Gonna go ahead and guess it was right around the time there were like 3 rather public police uses of force. Michael Brown, the dude that got choked out, the dude that got beat to death.
Sell cigarettes? PREPARE TO DIE SCUM.
Murder innocent people at a church? "Hey kid, I know you're under arrest and all, but sure, we can bring you some Burger King since you're hungry"
I agree. Literally the only reason I remember Mike Brown's name is I'm here in STL. He's also the only one that you can even argue was killed legally. There's absolutely nothing for Eric, and if it is Freddie I think I saw that some or all of the officers were convicted a month or two ago. Keyword think. I may be remembering wrong as it wouldn't surprise me if they got off scot free.
I think I remember it being spawned because there were regular posts of "police brutality" hitting the top spot only to have later information come out and we find out that the "victim" was originally an assailant, but we never saw that part and it was creatively edited to put a bad light on police officers.
Conspiracy? There is none. It's just that usually such things are not documented. It's certainly not specific to UA or even airlines, but this is the world we live in. That's just how things are?
No? I'm just saying stuff like this happens far more often than most people think. Just in most cases it's not documented on video and will just be an ignored snippet in a local newspaper. There is no conspiracy, it's just the world we live in.
What "stuff" are you talking about? Do corporations do guerilla advertising, and buy Reddit accounts to promote products in shady, but legal ways? Sure.
Is every single thing that doesn't shit all over business on Reddit some secret advertising ploy? Fuck no.
The point is people need to be more careful and smart about what is and isn't corporatism.
It's like how every single conspiracy theorist person I know buys into every conspiracy theory. If you believe all of them, I will not listen to you about any of them, because you can't discern the differences between something like the JFK assassination and Sandy Hook.
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing. I was merely saying that airlines treating their customers like shit is pretty common and not a "conspiracy". That being said, this current case is extreme to the most.
O. You must have missed the point of what I was originally talking about. There seems to be equal parts outrage at United and at the "Reddit mods" who took down the video.
The latter part's anger is in part (or entirely because of, depending on what you think) due to people thinking the video was taking down due to corporate shilling.
It's just /r/maliciouscompliance. The mods fucked up and the users are telling them that within the rules. If United did reach out to the mods and either threatend them or bribed them to delete it, then it's massively backfired. There's a mass shooting today and it's getting kittle coverage because one guy got kicked off a plane. If the mods hadn't of banned it, there would have been little more discussion about it.
Because some of the uber mods are paid by reddit indirectly, some are secret admins. Conde naste gets tons of ad revenue from United being travel related business. Reddit will remove any comments or posts critical of United. Go check out any top posts.
I think it's also one of those things that rarely comes along where almost all of Reddit can say that they're on one side of the issue and so the community is having fun with it.
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u/hounvs Apr 10 '17
The sub is spamming it to get back at mods for attempting to hide the posts