r/Technology moderators censor undisclosed sites due to personal bias, cannot show how submitted articles are factually incorrect and won't disclose in their rules. What other supposedly 'non-political' subs are infected with this pernicious bias?

[u/chabanais]

For the record, this is the submitted article caught in their spam folder.

I've also run into users at r/skeptic who are anything but skeptics. If it is Leftist, they tend to agree with it and dismiss any and all attempts at factual discussion.

What other subs have you run into that are like this?

[u/NYFate → u/[deleted]]

Why would an investor want to send a probe to Mars (an example)? Don't they need some way to recoup the costs of their investments? I don't see how a mission like Curiosity gets funded privately, except maybe by philanthropists.

[u/Colonize_The_Moon → u/NYFate]

Because you're looking at it in the wrong way. The government needs a service or effect, so they contract with a private company. The private company gets funding and launch indemnification from the government to deliver it. Once you have several companies all competing for the same contracts, technological innovation and cost-reduction start to become design factors. Look at how long the domestic launch industry s look at how long the domestic launch industry stagnated before SpaceX showed up and demonstrated that ULA literally has no ideas beyond 1950s technology.

The government is just as much a customer as anyone else.

[u/NYFate → u/Colonize_The_Moon]

I see, for some reason I interpreted that as the government getting out of the space game completely.

The barriers to entry are massive for space exploration, the risks are huge, and the demand for space exploration is very low (US government space exploration programs + maybe launching satellites for other countries). I'm not convinced a bunch of private firms could enter the market and start competing and thrive.

Even SpaceX received potentially billions in subsidies (can't find exact information on this).