It creates an environment where you can call out billionaires/gun nuts/anti vaxxers/homophobes/Saudis/etc and get upvotes, but it won’t let you create an actual opposition to the problem.
Like, surely you have heard about atrocities committed by Saudi Arabia or Israel or other US allies? They get maybe half a day on r/all, compared to any demonstrably less deadly event in Iran/China/Russia that hangs in news subreddits for weeks? Even if it isn’t a left wing bias, it’s definitely a right wing bias.
Reddit has a left wing bias, but also an American bias
It is mainly just Americans talking to other Americans about American things, without even acknowledging any other country exists, or when they do it is grouped together like “other countries”
Reddit leans “acceptable” left, which is basically what the yanks allow.
Reddit’s highest concentration of users from 2015 was a US military base
It creates an environment where you can call out billionaires/gun nuts/anti vaxxers/homophobes/Saudis/etc and get upvotes, but it won’t let you create an actual opposition to the problem.
Like, surely you have heard about atrocities committed by Saudi Arabia or Israel or other US allies? They get maybe half a day on r/all, compared to any demonstrably less deadly event in Iran/China/Russia that hangs in news subreddits for weeks? Even if it isn’t a left wing bias, it’s definitely a right wing bias.
Reddit has a left wing bias, but also an American bias
It is mainly just Americans talking to other Americans about American things, without even acknowledging any other country exists, or when they do it is grouped together like “other countries”