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.
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.
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.