What I find most hilarious about this whole thing, is that barely anyone knew about FPH before they banned it. Now it's just ridiculous. Nearly every news site has a story about Reddit and 'fat-shaming' and how they have all these racist and sick subreddits. They didn't think too hard about how the media would cover this. I mean I know that for the most part the media is sympathetic to Reddit, but they're still not painting the site in a good light in any way. Perhaps they should have left their skeletons in the closet.
Subs like /r/imgoingtohellforthis have been highly visible at /r/all for ages. Don't have to scratch the surface much there to find bigots foaming at the mouth, as they do.
What I find most hilarious about this whole thing, is that barely anyone knew about FPH before they banned it. Now it's just ridiculous. Nearly every news site has a story about Reddit and 'fat-shaming' and how they have all these racist and sick subreddits. They didn't think too hard about how the media would cover this. I mean I know that for the most part the media is sympathetic to Reddit, but they're still not painting the site in a good light in any way. Perhaps they should have left their skeletons in the closet.
Subs like /r/imgoingtohellforthis have been highly visible at /r/all for ages. Don't have to scratch the surface much there to find bigots foaming at the mouth, as they do.
True, but no-one was paying any attention. It wasn't a big news story. Now it is. They've drawn attention to those subs by their own actions.