10 dead, including perpetrator in school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC

WyattEarp

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I was banned from some of the Canadian reddits because of my views on the pandemic and restrictions. The reasons they gave me were absurd yet some of the posters made threats towards me and others who disagreed and nada by the mods. My main go to were the sports reddits of my favourite teams and even those members were way off.
I don't really know how reddit works on moderation. There are some moderators. I have no idea how they get appointed. Sometimes I see some rules for the topic. Generally, I don't get into trouble with the mods because I don't post much. I just glean information.

One troubling thing I experienced is that there are some affinity groups for products and services. From very limited experience, I have tried posting comments and they do not get past the moderator's review. They weren't even that critical. It was just an honest opinion on usage. That suggests to me that these type of reddit pages are curated for the benefit of the brand.

I much prefer reading a reddit discussion like "best Portuguese food in GTA." That's not exactly what it's called, but you get the drift.

reddit is all a bit wild west to me.
 

roddermac

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I don't really know how reddit works on moderation. There are some moderators. I have no idea how they get appointed. Sometimes I see some rules for the topic. Generally, I don't get into trouble with the mods because I don't post much. I just glean information.

One troubling thing I experienced is that there are some affinity groups for products and services. From very limited experience, I have tried posting comments and they do not get past the moderator's review. They weren't even that critical. It was just an honest opinion on usage. That suggests to me that these type of reddit pages are curated for the benefit of the brand.

I much prefer reading a reddit discussion like "best Portuguese food in GTA." That's not exactly what it's called, but you get the drift.

reddit is all a bit wild west to me.
When people protested the covid lockdowns some were calling them murderers because they were spreading the virus outdoors in the summer :ROFLMAO:. I said they have every right to peacefully protest which got me banned from one of them. When I message the mods as to why. Their response was I was encouraging people to break the law.
 
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WyattEarp

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When people protested the covid lockdowns some were calling them murderers because they were spreading the virus outdoors in the summer :ROFLMAO:. I said they have every right to peacefully protest which got me banned from one of them. When I message the mods as to why. Their response was I was encouraging people to break the law.
I understand exactly. I just think reddit moderation is very decentralized. That's why I called it the wild west.

Twitter always seemed to have a more centralized approach to moderation like it or not.
 

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Stochastic terrorism is the public demonization of a person or group through inflammatory, dehumanizing rhetoric that has the potential to incite random individuals to commit acts of violence.
Charlie Kirk, Stephen Miller, Trump, Musk, LibsOfTikTok etc are all stochastic terrorists.
That doesn't describe Charlie at all, lol....And who decides whats inflammatory or dehumanizing?...you?
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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That doesn't describe Charlie at all, lol....And who decides whats inflammatory or dehumanizing?...you?
Of course it describes him to a T.
The ones who his speech is targeted towards decide it is inflammatory and act violent, as he intends them to do and as it happened in his case unfortunately.
 

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" OpenAI flagged and banned the suspect in one of Canada’s worst-ever mass shootings for violating ChatGPT’s usage policy June last year, without referring her to police.

OpenAI identified an account associated with Van Rootselaar about eight months ago, with tools to detect misuse of its AI models to further violent activities, and banned it, the company said.

OpenAI said it considered referring the account to law enforcement at the time, but didn’t identify credible or imminent planning and determined it didn’t meet the threshold. After the shooting, the company contacted Canadian authorities.

The company said it trains ChatGPT to discourage imminent real-world harm."
Well, guess we better just put open AI in an armed drone and be done with it.
 
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