Comment by Aunche

> This is quite right. PragmaticPulp's phrase "an act perpetrated by evil corporations on us helpless individuals" is a bit of rhetorical jujitsu, creating a strawman...

How is this a strawman? This article is absolutely this inflamatory, if not more so.

> Reddit, for example, has always obfuscated the true Karma score (“to prevent vote brigading”)

There is no reason to believe otherwise. Everyone from Youtube and cheat-bot detection services utilizes the same strategy.

> To the contrary, the Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty will all be private (or publicly traded) entities.

Basically, the conclusion is that we're inevitably going to turn into 1984. There isn't even a suggestion of how to change the situation.