Is it possible that the Feds have seized Reddit with an iron fist and slapped gag orders on everyone, and this is why the site is going to shit (as a secret admin protest)?

56  2015-07-03 by americanpegasus

When the Truecrypt developers were told by the government, "Give us backdoors" and slapped with gag orders preventing them from talking about it, they fought it the only way they could.

They shut down the project and recommended everyone use a ridiculous alternative.

What if Reddit is currently being anally infiltrated and backdoored by the government and the very core of the site is being giga-fucked? Everyone in the know has a gag order slapped on them, and so they aren't allowed to tell the users the truth, like, "The Feds have demanded that so many backdoors and tools be integrated into the site that we feel the whole thing is compromised beyond repair.... Abandon ship."

But the gag order doesn't stop them from acting like total clowns (within reason) and slowly encouraging the users to migrate to another site (like Voat, hosted in Europe, and outside the immediate range of federal-comply-or-die weiner).

What do you think? It seems incomprehensible that the admins would be running their site like this, and some of the most recent responses to the drama have been along the lines of "lol" and "popcorn" showing a complete lack of regard for whether the user base quit them or not.

Something doesn't add up, and this is one of the few plausible explanations.

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14  Pewbee 2015-07-03

Wha? Shut down Reddit as a community with truly free expression and influence right before the 2016 elections to elect America's Next Top Whore? Nawww.... they would never do that, would they?

8  BadLuckRabbitsFoot 2015-07-03

Considering politics is generally one big circle jerk of support for Sanders, I wouldn't be surprised if something like this were the case. Hell, if it weren't for Reddit, I'd know next to nothing of the man and what he stands for.

2  Forgive_my_Ignorance 2015-07-03

shit!

1  joe-6pak 2015-07-03

I think that happened long ago.

I also think the current problems arise from simple incompetence.

1  Ferrofluid 2015-07-03

Letsroll got taken over by 'feds' or somebody who decided it needed a change in direction.

1  DronePuppet 2015-07-03

Lets all go to Facebook! LOL

1  csehszlovakze 2015-07-03

And now you'll be executed for talking about it. It was nice knowing you.

1  XavierSimmons 2015-07-03

It's an interesting theory to suggest that new management was brought in with very specific direction, and lacking the skill to successfully implement it. And the direction violates the very thing that made Reddit successful.

So either a) someone wants Reddit dead, or b) the new management is actually incompetent.

I'm calling 50/50 on that one.

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7  DvnRlm 2015-07-03

Yall keep living your lives thinking this stuff is impossible. I wouldn't be surprised, they control every thing else.

3  spays_marine 2015-07-03

Then you've been living under a rock because in the atmosphere of the last decade, things like this are not exactly shocking or far fetched.