"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices"
Reddit is the best example of that. I don't want to defend him but look at every single news and politics related sub from /r/news, /r/worldnews, /r/politics etc.
But that happens here too. Honestly I blame the upvote downvote system more. Reddit and HN are both really wrong with it
There is trend in American conservatism to take increasingly hostile and indefensible positions, and that trend has been met with counter trend that increasingly marginalizes those voices. Arguing for limited government is not likely to get a huge reaction from any given public platform. But arguing in favor of debunked conspiracy theories that make false allegations or defending the president's frequent personal attacks on individuals can and probably should be met with downvotes. Just like any personal attack should be.
I posted a few random comments to the_donald right after the election and it took years before I didn’t have a good chance of getting a really nasty message about how I was a Nazi when leaving comments anywhere else.
How is reddit silencing conservative voices? Downvotes don't count. There's plenty of conservative and right leaning subreddits with a lot of activity.
Just because there's not as much traction or acceptance among the users of reddit for conservative or right-wing ideas, comments etc. doesn't mean Reddit itself is actively silencing voices. You can't force people to not downvote things they don't like or agree with.
Reddit literally censors the actual Donald Trump campaign subreddit: it's hidden behind a scary warning screen and demonetized https://old.reddit.com/r/The_Donald . Hilarious. They don't even pretend to be unbiased or to care about their userbase that's equally on both sides of the political spectrum.
Where the "violations" of Reddit site-wide rules involved having lots of users and being able to push stuff up to the frontpage merely by upvoting it, like any other subreddit would. Of course when /r/politics does it, they don't call it "violating site-wide rules".
> Media Matters for America pointed out posts where r/The_Donald members fantasized about or encouraged violence related to Oregon’s recent climate change vote where Republican lawmakers fled the state Senate to prevent a climate change bill from passing, one of them even implying that he would respond to any police action with violence. r/The_Donald members posted comments like “none of this gets fixed without people picking up rifles” and “[I have] no problems shooting a cop trying to strip rights from Citizens.” The posts were later removed.
> In November 2019, the subreddit's moderators attempted to evade Reddit's imposed quarantine by reviving and promoting a subreddit called r/Mr_Trump. This subreddit was banned by Reddit's administrators in accordance with its policy that "attempting to evade bans or other restrictions imposed on communities is not allowed on Reddit." Days later, Reddit's admins warned the subreddit's moderators about trying to out the alleged White House whistleblower in the Trump–Ukraine scandal in violation of Reddit's rules on harassment and inviting vigilantism.
> Over the summer, the “Chapo Trap House” message board, which has nearly 153,000 members who chat about the news and memes of the day, was censured by Reddit, which hosts it. The page now has limited reach and is in a sort of digital purgatory, where it remains.
This is because it is littered with personal attacks, lies and defamation. When the president pushes unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and makes constant attacks against private citizens, that crosses the line regardless of party. Being unbiased does not mean promoting/supporting vile personal attacks.
They had to quarantine that sub because of a tidal wave of pro-shooting-cops posts whenever a bunch of Oregonian Republicans skipped town to hide in the woods with paramilitaries.
I don't believe the Donald Trump campaign has officially recognized that subreddit as being a part of their campaign...
but they also did the same quarantine to r/Chapo_Traphouse, a leftist podcast subreddit, so I'm not sure why you think it's not equal. Did you not know about Chapo being quarantined?
Case and point being the valid point you raised being down voted into the gray. Upvote/Downvote systems just encourage the side with the most free time to be the only opinion seen. I think this may be part of the reason so many people on Reddit and Hacker News are routinely surprised by election results. Echo chambers do not represent the real world
Reddit is the best example of that. I don't want to defend him but look at every single news and politics related sub from /r/news, /r/worldnews, /r/politics etc.
But that happens here too. Honestly I blame the upvote downvote system more. Reddit and HN are both really wrong with it