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Reddit bans comments from global warming skeptics
The Daily Caller ^ | December 18, 2013 | Giuseppe Macri

Posted on 12/19/2013 9:21:55 AM PST by CedarDave

A content editor on Reddit’s science forum wrote Monday that the site has banned climate-change skeptics, and asks why more news outlets haven’t done the same.

“About a year ago, we moderators became increasingly stringent with deniers,” Reddit content editor Nathan Allen wrote in grist. “When a potentially controversial submission was posted, a warning would be issued stating the rules for comments (most importantly that your comment isn’t a conspiracy theory) and advising that further violations of the rules could result in the commenter being banned from the forum.”

Allen explains that climate change became an ironically heated topic among commenters on Reddit’s science forum, /r/science, which he described as “a window into the Ivory Tower” for “non-scientists” to connect with experts like himself.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; reddit; thoughtpolice
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'Nuff said...

1 posted on 12/19/2013 9:21:55 AM PST by CedarDave
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

*PING* for your global warming list.


2 posted on 12/19/2013 9:23:58 AM PST by CedarDave (Small town America - last stand for God, freedom, civility, and American values.)
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To: CedarDave

Not familiar with reddit.

Part of the regime, or independent progressives?


3 posted on 12/19/2013 9:24:30 AM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: CedarDave
If a science discussion forbids interaction with those who disagree, then the science-y part is eliminated. Science has always been about requiring the person proclaiming something to provide proof. Reproducible proof. Repeatedly reproducible proof.

What they have done is to convert a science discussion into a religious one.

4 posted on 12/19/2013 9:28:13 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: nascarnation

Yeah...Who is “Reddit”????
Besides, “global warming” IS a conspiracy theory itself.....


5 posted on 12/19/2013 9:28:47 AM PST by Boonie
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To: CedarDave

Reddit: Leftist mouthpiece.


6 posted on 12/19/2013 9:32:52 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: CedarDave

I just cancelled Reddit.. Now we’re even.. Next.. :)


7 posted on 12/19/2013 9:32:56 AM PST by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Exactly.

Its why Einstein presented his theories then basically stepped aside to allow others to prove or disprove them.


8 posted on 12/19/2013 9:40:50 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: CedarDave
The "experts" are trying to keep the climate change/global warming/cooling gravy train rolling, despite the fact that they've been shown to be liars.
9 posted on 12/19/2013 9:49:07 AM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: CedarDave
Happy Kwanzaa, Festivus, Ramadan, and St. Barry Day to all

Here are the liberals' gifts to us:


10 posted on 12/19/2013 9:49:34 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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Why not instead ban anyone claiming global warming is real?

There has never been:

1. Provable chain of custody of data from sensors to reports.
2. Provable calibration of each and every sensor to lab standards from which numbers are derived.


11 posted on 12/19/2013 10:18:10 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: CedarDave

It’s time for decent, traditional values Americans to stand up to the PC/diversity (so long as you AGREE WITH US)/tolerance (IF YOU DON’T TOLERATE OUR WARPED VALUES AND OUR EFFORTS TO TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN WE WILL DESTROY YOU) HYPOCRITES and tell them that the resistance has finally begun!


12 posted on 12/19/2013 10:27:51 AM PST by Dick Bachert (CONGRESS: GROW A PAIR! IMPEACH THE USURPER!!)
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To: Boonie
The FACTS consciously overlooked by the GRANT MONEY WHORES (aka "global warming experts" are these:

1. Most ALL of the so-called "greenhouse gas" is WATER VAPOR!  Unless someone has found a way to stop evaporation from the oceans, lakes, rivers and streams, the TRANSPIRATION from trees and other plants, that situation will be with us...all together now...FOREVER.

2. By photosynthesis, plants take in CO2 and give back the O2 humans and animals REQUIRE for life.  Reduce CO2 and plants perish.  Increased CO2 = more plant life, ergo MORE O2!  It's a rather stable balance.

3. One MAJOR volcanic eruption spews more vapor and other "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere than MAN HAS PRODUCED SINCE MAN HAS BEEN ON THE PLANET!  I have yet to hear a serious legislative proposal BANNING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS!!!

(I suggest these frantic "greenies" gather at the upper rim of the next major volcanic  outbreak to study the "problem" up close and personal.  Now THAT would solve many of our problems!)

There's a lot more but I think you get the idea!

With the alleged "collapse" of the Soviet Union and communism (they just changed their uniforms for business suits, wear their pistols concealed, studied English and came here), the political One World elites needed another boogieman with which to herd the great unwashed (that's us) into their New World Order corral.  Of the several options explored, GLOBAL WARMING won.  Now that IT may be failing, watch for the latest boogieman to be formally introduced.

If you want to understand how that works, reread "1984" by Orwell.  It's all laid out there.

No, the major element controlling our climates is the SUN.  "Global warming", "climate change" or whateverthehell new name these idiots and grant money whores come up with is how THEY seek to CONTROL ALL OF US!!


13 posted on 12/19/2013 10:28:49 AM PST by Dick Bachert (CONGRESS: GROW A PAIR! IMPEACH THE USURPER!!)
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To: USCG SimTech

I’m sure you’ve noticed, but the claim that “this year is the warmest on record” is always based on temperatures claimed to have been recorded in some remote corner of the world where independent data is unavailable.


14 posted on 12/19/2013 10:33:47 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: CedarDave

Since this thread isn’t locked (yet), I’ll state this again here:

I think all Freepers should go sign up for Reddit and make a point to log at least one comment a day.

I’m finding the thought of Reddit mods pulling their hair out to fulfill their censorship very, very amusing today.


15 posted on 12/19/2013 10:57:31 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: CedarDave
When you are trying to promote a lie, especially a non-scientific lie in a publication that pretends to tell people about Science, then you have to silence all who tell the truth.

Reddit learned a lot from Goebbels, Stalin and the North Korean leader Kim BozoDung (or whatever his name is).

16 posted on 12/19/2013 11:02:36 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: nascarnation
Not familiar with reddit. Part of the regime, or independent progressives?

Mostly libs but surprisingly quite a few of us mean conservatives.

17 posted on 12/19/2013 11:41:50 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3103336/posts


18 posted on 12/19/2013 5:59:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: CedarDave; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
DOOMAGE!

Global Warming PING!

You have been pinged because of your interest in environmentalism, alarmist wackos, mainstream media doomsday hype, and other issues pertaining to global warming.

Freep-mail me to get on or off: Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to all note-worthy threads on global warming.

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19 posted on 12/19/2013 7:09:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: CedarDave

You can’t blame them. Selling Guyana Kool-Aid gets less popular as word gets out.


20 posted on 12/19/2013 7:17:14 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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