All the recent crap and drama going on in Reddit right now is really pushing me away. Certain subreddits can't seem to mind their own business. On a site that supposedly upholds free speech, there's bound to be content and subreddits you find offensive. Yet that's the whole point of having separate subreddits; you stick to what you like in your subreddit and never have to see content from other subreddits that may offend you. Yet there's brigading, vote manipulation, doxxing, ect.
Then there's the admins who's actions can't seem to be consistent with the supposed "free speech" ideal of the site. Hypothetically, if they truly supported free speech at it's core, they would ONLY ban and remove illegal content and nothing else; no matter how distasteful the legal content may be; and let the community decide on their acceptance with their up and downvotes. Yet we have at least 2 highly publicized instances and many that went under the radar, of the admins banning content that, although borderline and very distasteful, were still legal in the eyes of the law. What brought about the decisions? Media pressure. If you value free speech, you don't crack under media pressure.
That said, I don't have a problem with Reddit having standards for content on their site. But don't be hypocritical about it. If you're gonna be all about free speech in it's purest form, banning any legal content is hypocritical. If the admins came out tomorrow and "said we support free speech mostly except for the following distasteful content" I would be perfectly fine with it. You can't be about pure free speech and be worried about reputation at the same time. 4chan is truly uncensored and have quite the negative reputation. Reddit is trying to do the impossible and it's starting to implode on themselves.
All the recent crap and drama going on in Reddit right now is really pushing me away. Certain subreddits can't seem to mind their own business. On a site that supposedly upholds free speech, there's bound to be content and subreddits you find offensive. Yet that's the whole point of having separate subreddits; you stick to what you like in your subreddit and never have to see content from other subreddits that may offend you. Yet there's brigading, vote manipulation, doxxing, ect.
Then there's the admins who's actions can't seem to be consistent with the supposed "free speech" ideal of the site. Hypothetically, if they truly supported free speech at it's core, they would ONLY ban and remove illegal content and nothing else; no matter how distasteful the legal content may be; and let the community decide on their acceptance with their up and downvotes. Yet we have at least 2 highly publicized instances and many that went under the radar, of the admins banning content that, although borderline and very distasteful, were still legal in the eyes of the law. What brought about the decisions? Media pressure. If you value free speech, you don't crack under media pressure.
That said, I don't have a problem with Reddit having standards for content on their site. But don't be hypocritical about it. If you're gonna be all about free speech in it's purest form, banning any legal content is hypocritical. If the admins came out tomorrow and "said we support free speech mostly except for the following distasteful content" I would be perfectly fine with it. You can't be about pure free speech and be worried about reputation at the same time. 4chan is truly uncensored and have quite the negative reputation. Reddit is trying to do the impossible and it's starting to implode on themselves.