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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] seriousslayerguy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] JoeMontayna@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes, I've been getting very bad vibes from that place for a while now. It seems very filtered and the content is no longer reflective of what people upvote. It's tracking more to corporate interests and propaganda. Also, I think a lot of people have unintentionally divulged their most private information and don't even know it. Their innermost thought expressed in comments, likes dislikes cataloged in votes, all under the false sense of an anonymity. It would be very easy, especially now with AI, to link IPs, browser thumbprints, and writing style analysis back to individual people, at a mass scale. I think a reckoning is coming.