{"id":199006,"date":"2019-12-08T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199006"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T07:45:59","slug":"reddit-bans-users-for-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199006","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Bans Users for Telling the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kit Knightly &#8212; OffGuardian.co.uk Dec<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-199008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/reddit-censorship-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/reddit-censorship-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/reddit-censorship-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/reddit-censorship-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/reddit-censorship-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/reddit-censorship.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last week (November 27th), at a press conference, Jeremy Corbyn unveiled dozens of leaked documents. Documents showing that Boris Johnson \u2013 and the Tories in general \u2013 are lying when they say there are no plans to open up the NHS to US trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This means, not only that the NHS is in danger of further privatisation and\/or ruinously expensive deals with American Big Pharma, but that the Prime Minister and many other Tory MPs (and Donald Trump) have been caught out in a deliberate lie. A big one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This has got less play than it should in the mainstream media \u2013 more than you\u2019d think, but less than it should. (A sign that a hung parliament may be the aim of the exercise, or an indication that some splits or indecision in the Deep State ranks).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nobody has ever claimed these documents are fake. Their content is not disputed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2026and yet Reddit has banned the accounts associated with posting links to the documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They\u2019re not illegal, nor is there any evidence they were obtained through the committing of a crime. They don\u2019t contain hate speech, or threats of violence. In short, Reddit banned posters for nothing more than posting something real, true and important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Why? Because they might be Russian [our emphasis]:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We were recently made aware of a post on Reddit that included leaked documents from the UK. We investigated this account and the accounts connected to it and today <strong>we believe this was part of a campaign<\/strong> that has been reported as originating from Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Not even because they ARE definitively Russian \u2013 which would be bad enough \u2013 but because they <em>believe them to be<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It needs to be underlined \u2013 nobody is refuting the contents of the leaks. They are real. But we\u2019re being told that doesn\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In that way it perfectly mirrors \u201cRussiagate\u201d as an assault on public reason. Just like the DNC\/Clinton emails, we are being fed this idea that <em>where a document comes from<\/em> is somehow more important than <em>what it says<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is all based on a report from Ben Nimmo, which claims that the leakers are \u201clikely Russian\u201d and use \u201ctechniques associated with Russia\u201d. Citing \u201cgrammatical errors\u201d and the fact the accounts were new and had very little activity on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Burner accounts and spelling mistakes. That\u2019s it, that\u2019s all the evidence. Seriously. <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/graphika.com\/uploads\/Graphika%20Report%20-%20UK%20Trade%20Leaks%20-%2012.19.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Read it yourself<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/was-russia-behind-mystery-british-government-nhs-document-leaked-on-reddit-ahead-of-the-election?ref=scroll\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Daily Beast<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/dec\/07\/russia-involved-in-leak-of-papers-saying-nhs-is-for-sale-says-reddit\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span> both have stories covering this, and they both gently massage the truth in the exact same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They claim the report comes from Graphika, an analytics firm, and they credit Ben Nimmo as \u201chead of investigations\u201d. But neither of them mentions that Ben Nimmo also <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/expert\/ben-nimmo\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>works for the Atlantic Council<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Atlantic Council is an NGO that receives funding from a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/atlanticcouncil.org\/support-the-council\/honor-roll-of-contributors\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>very predictable list of \u201ccontributors\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, including both the US Department of State and the UK Foreign Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Obviously, that means this \u201creport\u201d poses a massive conflict of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nimmo actually has an infamous record of attacking people who oppose US Imperial interests. Including many <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/news\/@clarityofsignal\/oh-those-embarrassing-moments-atlantic-council-s-ben-nimmo-outs-russian-bot-that-turns-out-to-simply-be-a-uk-citizen-tired-of-uk\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>false allegations of being a \u201cRussian bot\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He\u2019s previously gone after note-worthy voices in the alternative media and a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ValLisitsa\/status\/978559232508416000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>world-renowned concert pianist<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. All of whom are very <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2018\/04\/20\/the-guardian-russian-bots-and-the-dehumanisation-of-dissent\/\">definitely real people<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and all of whom he accused of being bots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Reddit likewise has form when it comes to toeing the US government line, and a past record of censorship, having previously <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2018\/09\/30\/reddit-quarantines-9-11-truth-board\/\">\u201cquarantined\u201d 9\/11 discussion<\/a> under the guise of \u201ccombatting misinformation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To sum up then:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The leaked documents are all genuine, nobody disputes that<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They catch both the UK AND US governments in an embarrassing lie<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A man who is paid by both those governments has released a report attempting to discredit the leak<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Reddit has banned users based on this report<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When you look at like that, it becomes obvious this is an exercise in government censorship, with an NGO front-man and a corporate proxy inserted to hide the core truth of the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Reddit have made it plain: They will ban people who tell the truth, if that truth is inconvenient to the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you spare $1.00 a month to support independent media?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">OffGuardian does not accept advertising or sponsored content. 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