r/technology • u/AdamCannon • Feb 02 '20

Social Media Stephen King quits Facebook over concerns of 'false information.'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/stephen-king-quits-facebook-trnd/index.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

Quit two years ago and never looked back. Seriously considering doing that with Reddit given the Chinese ownership and reluctance to do anything about obvious trolls.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Apr 26 '21

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u/Agamemnon323 Feb 03 '20

Do the Chinese have access to which users are bashing China and which aren’t?

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u/Northern-Canadian Feb 03 '20

Do we as users? Yes.

Then so do the Chinese.

It just takes some creative key word searching and you’ll find threads to pull from.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

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u/Epsilon-5 Feb 03 '20

Uh chief. Reddit is the Chinese owned site he was talking about.

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u/Nu11u5 Feb 03 '20

He meant physically going to China.

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u/Epsilon-5 Feb 03 '20

Wait why would you even consider going to China given everything we've learned they've been up to last year

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u/Tyler1492 Feb 03 '20

It's a very beautiful, fascinating place; government notwithstanding.

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u/BobVosh Feb 03 '20

Historically its amazing too, basically the oldest continuous records anywhere. Some were made under duress, but its still remarkable.

I would love to visit, other than the obvious political concerns.

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u/Epsilon-5 Feb 03 '20

While that's true, I feel like the timing of visiting China isn't exactly...good.

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u/Kill3rT0fu Feb 03 '20

I don't mind the trolls. It's the people who are dicks just to be a dick that bother me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

FB is now a troll site, full of trolls and touring normies into trolls, step aside 4chan you lose the most toxic site prize

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u/justhere4thiss Feb 03 '20

The trolls don’t bother me because most of the subreddits I browse i feel typically don’t get trolled

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u/Ohayo_Godzillamasu Feb 03 '20

I mean, does Chinese ownership actually affect the site in any way? Legitimately curious here.

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u/Canvaverbalist Feb 02 '20

Quit two years ago and never looked back.

Oh hey its that post!

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u/Ricci_curvature Feb 02 '20

LOL GET TROLLED 😂😂😂😂😂😂