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Reddit bans several of its most racist communities
A new content policy finally removes a bunch of Reddit's most notorious communities.
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Well that took too long.
reddit is so gross
Yea it's icky
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I'm always mildly amused by those crybabies who jump on the "BUT MAH FREEDOMS". They clearly don't understand what censorship and freedom of speech fundamentally are.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean to let people do and say whatever they want, everywhere they want. The owners and administrators of a privately owned website are in their own rights in deciding to delete content they don't see fit for their platform. Now, will those people stay after they do is another issue. They aren't telling them to shut up, they are saying "find somewhere else to do this". They can move their community anywhere they want, build a website, host a forum somewhere, make and IRC channel. They have options. They have places to express their point of view, nobody tells them they can't - they just can't on Reddit.
This is not censorship.
I think the outrage has always been that reddit is/was sold as a place for unfettered free speech. Nobody is really claiming reddit shouldn't be able to ban subs of their choosing, but rather they can't claim it's a bastion of free speech (not that they claim that any longer) and act otherwise.
That place is going down hill fast.
it was always downhill, the problem now is people are trying to bring it uphill and everyone who likes being downhill is crying about it.
Wow. And the complete wreck train continues I see. Glad I got out of there.
Glad to be done being part of the traffic there and my letter to the CA AG is sent, because still subs like the one which is dedicated to imagery of sexually photographed and blatant sexual desecration (depicted their sidebar) of the corpses of girls and women are still neither quarantined nor banned.
So yeah their conflict balancing the bastion of free speech cred for the under-socialized, ODD, and disaffected with the realities that hate sells to haters (but not for the revenue that reddit needs) is established by them at this point, and yet the solutions are being delivered by reddit in the most inept and painfully slow manners possible. Really reddit keeping the diddled corpses up?
Does anyone here think that banning them may give them more reason to play the victim?
does that mean this place allows racists?
No, it's explicitly written in the rules. Rule number eight here.
I can see some people being happy and some people pissed off about this.
And what exactly do you mean by some people?!
Edit: bad joke in bad taste, but I'll let it stand for the public record.
Way to own it. I laughed. So I'm glad you kept it. It was a bad joke in bad taste but it was masterfully done. Cheers.
Good riddance to Coontown but they still fail to answer why they refuse to ban SRS that fits to a T all the requisites to be a bannable sub.
SRS is big enough to cause them bad publicity and has the reach to really cause them some strife. That's the real answer, its a cost:benefit analysis and frankly its not worth it to piss that large of a community off.
The smaller ones that are self contained get the axe though.
Its the same reason the are "quarantining" some subreddits to keep them of the default page but /r/wtf stays, despite it having some pretty awful shit posted there on the regular.
Its not fair but its the way of the world. Unfortunately the site isn't exactly inhabited y adults.
They did answer that (Drunken_Economist is an admin).
Just a coincidence your all here?