Reddit Has Reinstated ImJulianAssange and Returned to Him His Karma and Reddit Gold

83  2011-06-20 by fairwellIMJA

NOT!

They have severly restricted his IP adress's ability to post.

He will reveal (1 at a time) the three sorces he uses for the content of his posts, then he says he will "disappear".

Is that the way a user-supplied content website should treat the content Supplier?

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Reddit has been censoring for a long long time now, always blamed on the spam filter that doesn't filter spam.

The Admins will lie to you if you confront them on it, they have the shadow ban, and the limited view ban, they have been burying for the last five years I have been here.

The purpose is to make the majority think they are the minority on certain viewpoints

i am still pissed off that my NSA Q Group is running amok to plug leaks about 9/11 submission magically disappeared from r/911truth even though it was still hot. 35 net upvotes in 23 hours (in right panel) vanished! (in left panel)

inb4: reddit censorship rationalization

Shadow banned, only you see your posts.

In the last 5 years I have seen this happen 100's of time and heard the same old lies by the admins when confronted.

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reddit shadow bans / ninja bans new people by default...

Admins are the bury-brigade.

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Gaming the system is one thing. Immediate technical responses (tested with the help of other redditors) is another.

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You say I have an opinion without any supporting evidence.

I give you evidence which you can check with the Mods with whom you claim to have a good relationship. But you don't. You cross your arms, turn your back, put your nose in the air, stick out your bottom lip and say "There IS a Santa Claus".

"I give you evidence"

Your idea of "evidence" and mine are radically different. So far, all I have seen from you is that you have made a number of statements that have not been verified or substantiated by any other supporting data.

Link me to some quoted emails that support your assertions (or really link to any supporting information at all) and give me something to chew on. It is not my job to research your bullshit. You are the one making assertions, therefore it is up to you to provide supporting evidence.

Judging from your past submissions, I thought maybe you were someone who could apply logic and reason to a situation. This exchange is rapidly changing my mind about that.

Um...backstory, please?

Um... Apparently his job made him be someplace with nothing to do for like ever. So he started posting on reddit, he got 32,000 link karma points and posted a lot of good stuff (obviously). Then one day his account was deleted!

After ~ a week he re-joined and since no one was using his old name it was available and he got it back.

http://www.reddit.com/user/ImJulianAssange/

But this is really a shameful act on the reddit admins part.

I have access to internet all day while commuting and while at work. I access and save the articles while commuting then post them in spurts.

toyotabedzrock was also banned a few weeks ago, allegedly for being a "spammer", but imho he is being censored.

If by spamming you mean revealing truth.

Unbelievable. The admins responsible were either scumbags.... or deathly afraid of the government.

No,they are building a brand. Reddit will go the way of facebook and the huffington post. This is just another infotainment center.

Well the source is open. A half decent server should be able to server a thousand people.

Except the anti cheating and spam algorithm.

I guess it kind of makes sense why they would want to keep that under wraps...

Or, God forbid, Digg.

To run the site they have had to build the brand...nothing wrong with that-wikileaks has had to do so as well. It really now depends on the mods and users (and admins). Some subreddits have definitely become 'infotainment', like r/gaming, while others have shills by the dozen, like r/politics. It's still heads and shoulders above any other site in quality (of it's userbase and it's content-barring those subreddits).

With the treatment of your account specifically don't underestimate how formal institutions and private companies will roll over as soon as they receive a communication from the government or think they might-i'm sure you recall what with Amazon and those financial companies did to wikileaks accounts. This is why the admins may have been deathly afraid of the controversy. In a way, they erred on the side of protecting reddit from criticism at a 'dangerous' time.

Yes, I agree, that is what I have been saying: nothing personal, strictly business.

I don't think anyone needs "a communication from the government" in this day and age. We all know the score.

Just as I cannot fight an invisible enemy neither can "they".

So I am passing the baton to a legion of "anonymous" "infowarriors".

http://www.reddit.com/r/FYI/

We all know the score too that information is one thing, but private means and methods are another. The real leverage will come when private individuals who respect freedom and hate hypocrites hold the keys to every chamber, every vault, every prison, every "secure" installation and every organization. Every bank. Now i'll be ironic, I certainly hope the necessity of this idea is unnecessary, but.. this is theoretical and governments can and will shoot us when the needs arise and not blink an eye, just like they kill foreigners today, we are open to execution in the future for disagreeing with authority.

That is why this "infowar" is so important.

We must all do all we can to keep that future envisioned by the globalists (international corporations) from ever being realized.

Most people do not understand the urgency or how close to catastrophe we are. Also most people know something is wrong but they don't know what. Many are preparing in the wrong way. What good are your dried foods and gold if they are in a no-go (radiation) zone? What if all the water is contaminated.

The best preparation is a very serious "Go Bag". In the mean time keep it simple: low profile, small footprint.

I would caution against the Utopian vision of private individuals who respect freedom and hate hypocrites holding the keys to every chamber, every vault, every prison, every "secure" installation and every organization.

I think that what we want is one...then another one...

I'm thinking of a particular historical event. I would expect the growth to be logarithmic/exponential...long lead time, stasis phase then a rapid "you're history" clutch phase. Also, I don't know if global corporations themselves are the problem so much as the people who control them are evil and corrupt, and lawmakers likewise have no regard at all for the concept of individual sovereignty. The idea that the state dominates you is obscene.

I concur with your prognosis. I think the long lead time is over. Gerald Celente thinks we are entering the "you are history" phase.

The people in government and business are not corrupt. They are "just doing their job" and getting well paid to do it. I was once offered $1,000/day to drive supply trucks from Kuwait to Bagdad with a $50,000 injury and $500,000 death benefit AND a $10,000 signing bonus up front.

People with jobs are looking out for themselves and their loved ones. In a culture that promotes "rugged individualism", people don't look beyond their immediate family and friends.

Corporations take advantage of this and by focusing on profits and the return on investment create the circumstances we now see in Greece where they are forcing the Government to take a new loan as large as the last just to pay the interest on the old loan. This is supposed to tide them over until they can get back on their feet and start being as productive as Germany (they never were and never will be). The catalyst to a NWO might be a Greek default.

My hope is the people of Greece rise up and say NO!

Let the dominoes fall!

Btw, maybe you should give some dudes in r/seduction some tips on scoring... IAMA-like

The mods did a great job. IAJA only links to alexhiginsblog.com, one of a few non factual blogs that produce outright lies. There are others in this subreddit also that only link to their own sites or blogs. We need to do away with these people that post Sorcha Faal type bullshit.

So if we don't like the content that someone is posting we ban them? < downvote button use it. Dont get giddy that people who believe something different from you gets banned.

It's called SPAM, you idiot. When all someone does is fill a subreddit with links directing traffic to their site (which by the way is all MADE UP NEWS), it really discredits the whole fucking subreddit. I used to come here and there would be links to real news sources about factual issues that are not covered by the mainstream media. Now those reliable links have been replaced with posts from IAmJulianAssange, Kr3at, jdillinger, thebluestlight, and while perhaps these users do not profit from sending web traffic to the sites they link to, the sites are all non factual and contain no real information. That is why anyone who dares to question the slant that the mainstream media puts on stories is deemed a crazy conspiracy theorist.

YOU are the idiot. I direct people to useful news and information regardless of where it is.

An idiot sticks a finger in their ear and won't listen. All i said was downvote instead of ban. And why don't YOU post some real news in this reddit instead of complaining. I too get tired of one sided crap. But I guess IAJA stopping you from posting.

That is why anyone who dares to question the slant that the mainstream media puts on stories is deemed a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Not quite. The reason that people are attacked is simply that the truth threatens those in power and the mainstream system. They are afraid that anything but the current system of corruption will destroy civilization. Anyone who questions the current system is an enemy. Period. You and I are the enemy no matter what we say or how much truth there is to it. Actually the real crazy conspiracies are laughed at and parodied-it makes them feel secure. The conspiracies that scare them to death are the ones that are more or less true and they have a violent urge to enforce the current system on those who disagree. This is the critical moment to gut them.

That is a lie you keep repeating. I have only three sources and they are being revealed in the next three days.

Can you explain the reason given for your ban?

There has been absolutely NO communication from Admins,

My account was blocked from posting.

MY screen showed the posts but others could not see them. This was revealed to me by several redditors and confirmed by me using this new account.

The infamous ninja ban.

Do you mean that you contacted admins and have been ignored?

Repeatedly.

If you had to guess at theanreason, what would you say it was? Do you think you are being censored or is there a possibility that admins feel you are cheating. I do not know the protocol with regards to whether admins routinely ignore banned users or not, so I do not know if this is usual behaviour.

I think it is a business decision to keep r/conspiracy as a place to delegitimize dissent by calling it "tin foil hat conspiracy theory". The ultimate aim is to sell reddit as infotainment.

I did not cheat in any way shape or form. I did not link to any one site more than others and often sought a secondary source if I was.

When someone posted that I was providing "95%" of the content of r/conspiracy (I was only 80%) I voluntarily self regulated my posts to 50%. Prior to that I was not paying attention to how much others posted.

I just want to say "thank you" for your posts. I appreciate them very much.

Thank you very much.

I read three websites and pick and choose which links to post in which subreddit from there.

http://www.reddit.com/r/FYI/

I'd like a job like that

I run my own consulting business.

Where are you getting this information?

From me.

More details please! His posts were always great

My 32,000 karma and Reddit gold were taken without warning or notice or redresss. My ability to post is limited.

Because you post controversial things on r/conspiracy? What else are we supposed to post on such a subreddit...

As long as the content can be dismissed as merely conspiracy theory everything is OK: just infotainment. But when you see a 7000 spike in readers and one person providing 80% of the traffic then business and politics kick in.

How should we combat this? Disperse content through several throwaways? I need good sources of alternative media!

Somehow, with only three sources, I was able to provide 80% of r/conspiracy content and acquire over 32,500 points.

Here are those 3 sources

http://www.reddit.com/r/FYI/

If this is legit...

The ban-hammered usually have an inkling of why they got hit. What do you think, specifically, the reason was?

I have no idea. I received no communications of any kind. It was many hours before I discovered what happened. My GUESS is I was too big a fish for the pond.

I often disapprove of the content of ImJulianAssange's posts but I will defend to the death his right to post it.

I often disagree with the content of the links I post.

Why? Does anybody know why this happened?

For outing the admins as the bury-brigades.

Are any of your actions doing so still online, or have they been removed as well?

This is a gigantic data base. They track your ID. If they identify you then they track your IP. I don't really check to see what "they" are doing.

I think maybe there was a misunderstanding here somewhere. JSIN33 asked why the IAmJulianAssage account was banned. You said it was because the admins were outed as the "bury-brigade". I was curious if that outing was still available online, or links to posts or comments made that implied it.

I definitely understand the general idea as you've expressed it here, re: database, tracking people, etc. I just was wondering if anything was left online of the actions (or evidence of them) that the account was ostensibly banned for.

This is what clued me in: In all of cyber space who can and is willing to track these obscure posts in an extended thread on a minor subredditt of a an unprofitable website?

It was brought to my attention by someone attempting to communicate with me that his posts were being deleted. That person and I made email contact outside of reddit to discuss the issue. I am a point and click person so I don't know HOW it is done. But that person and I were able to prove to our own satisfaction that WHAT IS ON YOUR SCREEN is NOT ALWAYS ON REDDIT. Also since the other person involved was not identified as the recognizing what was happening he was able to determine that NOT ALL of his posts would disappear only the ones expressing support for me or calling attention to the problem.

At that point I tried to figure out WHY and without any feedback I GUESSED it was because I was either posting against the political views and/or business plan of the owners. It happened WHEN I was communicating to other redditors about what I call bury brigades. The disappearing posts, the sudden appearance of the same old cyber-bullies in remote threads in obscure subreddits.

Need more here. Herd he was away, hoped was a vacation. Whats going on?

Account deleted. Blocked from posting.

IAMA?

ImJulianAssange or IamJulianAssange?

The first is limited the second blocked: same person.

So you don't at all think it could have been any higher forms of authority than reddit admins. I mean, you were putting a lot of valuable information out there that people with power might not want to be seen. So the simple way of handling it is to just delete the account. This was my first suspicion when I noticed your first account was gone.

It doesn't have to be anything other than this: this guy has 7000 new readers; he posts 80% of r/conspiracy content; that content leans away from our business model or politics.

DELETE

Whatever, I think that you are just some person that is being paid to pretend that you are IamJulianAssange after your bosses took him out. And now you're putting it onto Reddit admins to divert dissension.

I don't know how to "prove" that ImJulianAssange is IamJulianAssange.

BTW I am NOT Julian Assange.

Please tell me who would pay for something like that?

he did post a lot but I read many of them or at the very least skimmed them.

80% of the content of r/conspiracy.

start a blog, i'll read it

Thank you very much for this expression of support. Of my 32,000 karma points only about 1000 were for comments. In other words I have not been posting my ideas or opinions. I do not have time for a blog.

Thank you again.

start a blog where you just post articles then lol.

I don't post original content and I am making my sources public so thanks for a great idea but it's not for me.

http://www.reddit.com/r/FYI/

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My ability topost is restricted to one every 10 minutes.

I do not have time for that.

My sources will be available to all so my posts will not be needed.

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They are developing an infotainment product. They have their political views. They DO want to PRESENT themselves as fair and balanced etc to appeal to the widest audience so the can SELL their product. That means it can't be too avant garde.

Well I thought that the whole point of the subreddits is that everyone can find an offbeat niche?

Yes but all of a sudden you have a person posting 80% of the content, an upsurge of 7000 readers and posting activism and support for ideas, policies and people you oppose, then it is WAR!

"My ability topost is restricted to one every 10 minutes."

I thought everyone was that way. So its a form of punishment?

I use to be able to post as fast as I could copy and paste a URL and a Title. I read the article or watch the video when I can. If I think others might be interested I post to what I think is the appropriate subreddit. Sometimes I just save the link and post a lot at one time.

Well I have been restricted to one every 10 min. I thought it was a system wide restriction.

If it is a rule for everyone then I accept that as fair. They only have so much bandwidth. However, they took my reddit gold (i don't even know what that is or how to use it) and they took my Karma. I am pretty sure that is not something they do to everybody. So my point is: OK it's your neighborhood and your ball but I just beat you at your own game. If the game is unfair IT WAS YOUR GAME. Tell me the new rules and stop trying to be all 1984 about it.

Wingman,

I want to point out that part of the reason I took my 'blood pressure break' was due to the "you're doing that too much" and "you're trying to submit too fast" messages. And, I am inclined to concur with what you've expressed in other comments about the admins (or, more specifically, I suspect, Conde Nast and the powers that be) turning this into a social media circus (look at this picture of my dog/cat/sweater-sewn-by-my-mom-but-I'm-pretending-it-was-my-gf-for-reddit-karma).

When Conde Nast bought reddit, free speech's days were numbered on this site.

There is a solution, though... multiple accounts and multiple proxies. one proxy per account. never let them make connections between your accounts. never reveal any private info - not even something as seemingly harmless as "I was driving on the BA Expressway in Tulsa the other day and saw this". Just don't do it. It is THE PRIMARY REASON I had to abandon several accounts.

Karma is irrelevant. Even if you like it (like Jew Confetti), you don't need to hoard it all under one username. If your mission truly is to promulgate truth, you'll free your mind of any such limitations and circumvent the barriers to free speech.

Peace.

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I agree. That is why I am abandoning this ID.

I am just going out with a flourish so I can pass on my sources:

http://www.reddit.com/r/FYI/

I think it's a per subreddit... or per comment thread.. based thing.

e.g., only one submission per 10 minutes to r/conspiracy.

e.g., only one comment [edit: per 10 minutes] per post-thread.

So, I'm guessing IaJA was getting around this by cross-posting (that "as fast as I could copy and paste a URL" thing). If it takes a 60 seconds per submission, and he cycled through up to a dozen or more subreddits, he could do one submission per minute for quite a while before stumbilng on a "you're doing that too much" message.

Combine that with some intermittent commenting, and basically... he could keep flooding the site with submissions and comments until the cows come home

When you are too good at revealing the truth, you get censored. Look at what is happening to Alex Jones.

There is a time for talk and a time for action. It has been my experience that r/conspiracy are not a positively oriented group. I share the responsibility for that. We all have a limited amount of time to do things in the physical sense. Knowing about every negatively oriented choice being made on our behalf by the loyal opposition is supposed to make us consider, and work toward a better solution. The sharing of idea and thought, emotion and premise is important to the path we are on. It is not all. We should want change. I have learned the hard way, that change starts inside. If you can not manage it it will manage you. I urge you all to spend some time thinking about the Us vs Them mentality that pervades our civilization. You have Choice. Service to Self or Service to Others. The Law of Confusion has been invoked. This is my last post on r/conspiracy.

They took his karma away NOOOOOO.

REDDIT does have a down vote brigade, which i believe i have proof. i posted this link http://i.imgur.com/flnBF.jpg , which in the first minute had 5 down votes, i started to see that happen in front of my eye's. i watched imgur view counts did not change as the down votes would go up. i added more comments from different users to do this. there are more shills that comment and vote here than real redditors.

Reddit is trolled by army thugs with pentagon persona software. They manage 100's of personas each, and randomly downvote all articles that don't fit the US administration's ideology.

And if that weren't bad enough, Reddit is paid off to let them do this.

Put them on tablets and carry em down a mountain.

Reddit is owned and controlled by Jews. Jews are the "thought police." Jews are "Big Brother" even to other Jews. Jews define what is "politically correct."

I wonder why you or occidentalist have not been banned yet, If what you say is true. It is true that advance publications is owned by the newhouse family who are thought to be jewish.

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Mods are not admins. The candle Mod has told me my account was NOT caught in a filter of any kind and that my account APPEARS to be normal. I was also told by this same Mod that Admins had deleted my account. You don't have to "buy" or "believe" anything. But now you know and you can continue to deny.

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I have NOT asserted ANY conspiracy. I have stated the facts.

My 32,000 karma and 17 days of reddit gold were taken from me without waring or notice or any contact. I cannot post from my account. I have had no communications from Admins. Mods first said they could not detect any restrictions on my account then they told me my account was deleted by admins.

This is something you do not have to "believe". You can check and find out.

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I was responding to questions about WHY.

My account was deleted WHEN I outed the admins as the bury brigade.

I was told directly by Mod Illuminatedwax several times that there was no DETECTABLE problem with my account.

I was able to confirm with the help of many redditors that my posts were NOT appearing on Reddit although they WERE APPEARING ON MY SCREEN.

One of those redditors posted a "SELF" quetioning what was happenning and the post was immediately deleted.

You are coming late to this and I suggest you get up to speed by having a friendly chat with the Mods. They are not responsible.

As far as motive, I have suggested a couple of ideas that seem reasonable to me based on business and politics.

You have stated that you know nothing and what you do and do not believe. In my experience people who stubbornly stick to their beliefs no matter what the facts are not likely to ever change their opinions. I am NOT trying to convince you.

I am trying to point out the flaw in your logic: you do not believe me and yet you keep engaging me for more information so that you can bolster your opposition. If you REALLY wanted to find out the facts you could communicate with the Mods with whom you claim to have a good rapport. Or you could engage the admins with whom you have had a previous positive experience.

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I just got a message from one of the MODS who says he JUST found out about my situation and will look into it. So NO I do not need your help but thanks for the offer.

I know you are NOT trying to help me OR figure out what has happened. I have given you all the facts which you call "assertions" or "supposed facts". I told you how easy it would be to corroborate if you wanted to.

Your arguments are based on NOT knowing anything but having fixed beliefs. To support your FEELING you were trying to provoke me into some sort of confrontation so you can storm off in a huff.

Now you are so frustrated by your own illogic that you have been reduced to name calling.

This is NOT the same thing that happened to you. I have been patiently trying to communicate with the people in charge for over two weeks. So yes I took the time to ask for help. I have had extremely limited response from Mods (all supportive) and NO response from Admins.

With the help of MANY redditors I have been able to find out all that I have already told you. You came late to this conversation and I tried to get you up to speed. You now have all the data I have. If you want to know more you have to ask people who have the knowledge.

The only one who can waste your time is you.

If this is the end then fare WELL.

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And you don't even have an argument. Nothing but ad hominem. Until the other party in this dispute actually clarify their position on the issue you're just blowing smoke.

I dominated r/conspiracy without intending to. In other subreddits there are more posters and readers so post disappear more quickly. However your comment makes it clear that I am correct about you. This subtle cyber-bullying doesn't work with me and that frustrates you no end.

Well, he has mentioned that he has tried to get a response from the the admins but is being ignored. It is not your responsibility to investigate this with the admins but if you could attempt to open a line of communication with them and report back that could be productive. The reason I say this is because you seem to have respect for the admins integrity (I am not saying that respect is undue though)

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It does make sense that with so few staff and such a large userbase that errors occur. What is the correct r/ for imjulianassange to aire his grievances?

no one notice that imja just started posting. it is probably iamjuianassange's puppet account and he is trying to get the subreddit talking about him again. kind of peculiar for someone on a conspiracy board, but that is the kind of people you get when summer lets out the kiddies from school.

ImJulianAssange has limited posting ability.

IamJulianAssange is blocked from posting.

I AM trying to get attention so that the sites from which I get my links will be in the public domain.

OMFG! Reddit is teh CENSWORD!

Everyone iz efter me bcuz I am teh TROOF!

Now watching the downboat brigadeers gonna get mah nummburs negatived.

Damn those reddit admins. Making this site just to fuck with me personally. I hate that shit.

He will reveal (1 at a time) the three sorces he uses for the content of his posts, then he says he will "disappear".

The three website he spammed from mainly?

Are you pretending to be an idiot?

are you pretending to be Julian Assange?

No such luck on the disappearing thing...

Nutters never disappear like they threaten to. This guy just wants to be the center of attention. Just ignore him and he will drift back into obscurity.

Gotta rile up the masses somebow right?

are you pretending to be Julian Assange?

That is why this "infowar" is so important.

We must all do all we can to keep that future envisioned by the globalists (international corporations) from ever being realized.

Most people do not understand the urgency or how close to catastrophe we are. Also most people know something is wrong but they don't know what. Many are preparing in the wrong way. What good are your dried foods and gold if they are in a no-go (radiation) zone? What if all the water is contaminated.

The best preparation is a very serious "Go Bag". In the mean time keep it simple: low profile, small footprint.

I would caution against the Utopian vision of private individuals who respect freedom and hate hypocrites holding the keys to every chamber, every vault, every prison, every "secure" installation and every organization.

I think that what we want is one...then another one...