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<h1 class="title">Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring
Controversial Content</h1>
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<span class="submitted">Submitted by <a
href="http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington">George
Washington</a> on 02/23/2012 02:07 -0500</span><br>
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<p>Facebook <a
href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/22/low-wage-facebook-contractor-leaks-secret-censorship-list/"
target="_blank" title="pays low-wage foreign workers to delete
certain content based upon a censorship list">pays low-wage
foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a
censorship list</a>. For example, Facebook deletes accounts
created by Palestinian resistance groups.</p>
<p>Digg was caught censoring stories which were controversial or too
critical of the government. See <a
href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72835"
target="_blank" title="this">this</a> and <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070311084954/http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=20587"
target="_blank" title="this">this</a>.</p>
<p>Now, even social media site Reddit – which helped launch the
anti-Sopa Internet blackout and publicize GoDaddy’s slimy Sopa
support – is doing the same thing.</p>
<p>As just one example, posts from this website are being censored
by Reddit. Specifically, a friend of this site who has submitted
stories to Reddit has received the following messages of rejection
from a Reddit moderator named davidreiss666:</p>
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<p><span>from <strong><a data-mce-=""
href="http://www.reddit.com/user/davidreiss666"
target="_blank">davidreiss666</a> via /r/worldnews/</strong></span></p>
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<p>WashingtonBlog is not something we consider a good source for
r/Worldnews.<br>
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