"Freedom of Speech" means you will not be prosecuted for your opinions, not that everbody is obligated to provide you with an audience.
Oh I concur, companies have no obligation to provide free speech the way governments are expected to. I just believe in it as a concept and get disappointed when I don't see it on the many websites I frequent on a platform (the internet) that I consider the ultimate freedom of expression.
Until fatpeoplehate got banned, they kept their hate in their own subreddit. The content never made it to the front page, and they were free to express their (distasteful) opinions. That, to me was ideal free speech on a website. Then they got banned, and all that shit spilled into /r/all.
Edit: Furthermore, why haven't other subreddits that "troll" people get banned? /r/cringe and /r/cringepics have some pretty vicious threads about people.
I think the problem with FPH was not their hate, but them posting pictures of obese people and then mocking them. This is not a matter of speech, this is a matter of human dignity.
r/ringepics at least anonymizes the usernames of the users they mock, so they are not exposes to a platoon of bored trolls.
Oh I concur, companies have no obligation to provide free speech the way governments are expected to. I just believe in it as a concept and get disappointed when I don't see it on the many websites I frequent on a platform (the internet) that I consider the ultimate freedom of expression.
Until fatpeoplehate got banned, they kept their hate in their own subreddit. The content never made it to the front page, and they were free to express their (distasteful) opinions. That, to me was ideal free speech on a website. Then they got banned, and all that shit spilled into /r/all.
Edit: Furthermore, why haven't other subreddits that "troll" people get banned? /r/cringe and /r/cringepics have some pretty vicious threads about people.
I think the problem with FPH was not their hate, but them posting pictures of obese people and then mocking them. This is not a matter of speech, this is a matter of human dignity.
r/ringepics at least anonymizes the usernames of the users they mock, so they are not exposes to a platoon of bored trolls.