A month ago, you could tell that the shills had not arrived yet, at least not very many of them. You could post how much you thought the US government was corrupt, and how obvious blatant false flags were, and you would get dozens of upvotes and not a single downvote. You could talk about how GMOs are not 100% safe and how vaccines need to be given independent studies to verify their safety. No downvotes, lots of people agreeing with you.
But in the last few days, I've been seeing a lot more downvotes overall, and a lot more stifling of dissent. Sure, the general opinion is still "fuck the US government", but now instead of a post like that having +30 -0, it's now +30 -10. And those downvotes will surely only grow larger in the coming months.
They're here. And they're trying to manipulate public opinion here just like they did on Reddit. Be prepared.
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brother_tempus ago
I will have to concur ... the population of socialists, Marxists, progressives and other garden-variety authoritarians has grown .
personally I would only allow upvoats .. and nodownvoats
Fiacre54 ago
You are advocating the suppression of dissension from your views. This is the exact problem the OP is talking about. I really hope your post was meant ironically.
brother_tempus ago
No .. I am advocating the removal of censorhip ( ie freedom ) .. you can dissent .. you just can;t censor
Fiacre54 ago
Downvoating is not censorship.
brother_tempus ago
When the action removes the person;s statement from the default view ... then yes it is