Reddit Mods Bury Greenwald's Story on GCHQ/NSA Internet Tactics

[Marr]

I thought this incident was pretty interesting. News aggregators like Reddit are just the sort of place you might expect to find the types of manipulation described in Greenwald's article.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/11344026358/reddit-mods-bury-glenn-greenwalds-story-gchqnsa-use-internet-to-destroy-reputations.shtml

"Last night, the original article from firstlook.org was taken down and tagged as "not appropriate subreddit." Meanwhile, another copy of the story was allowed to rise, despite having an editorialized title. Later, the version that had been taken down--which was older and had fewer upvotes because it had been removed--was put back up and the younger version with more upvotes was removed, allegedly because the topic was "already covered."

[grahamhgreen]

1. After driving the founder to suicide...

[pa28]

2. They also banned DU and many other left wing sources from their politics forum recently.

The kind of manipulation Greenwald's item described grabs a broad spectrum of internet eyeballs and is a great value for the dollar.

[Enthusiast]

3. Imagine that.

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!

[joshcryer]

5. No doubt the mods are GCHQ/NSA infiltrators.

[msanthrope]

9. Glenn's book comes out on March 25th...he has to have an excuse for the negative reviews. nt

[woo me with science]

6. K&R

[L0oniX]

7. NSA sand box.

[bobduca]

8. Reddit has more transparency than some forums

where stories never make their way to the home page.

[SidDithers]

10. Transparency is good...nt

Sid

[Fumesucker]

11. Tell it to the NSA