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Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters

Posted by Unknown on from the saving-us-all-from-armchair-detectives dept.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Reddit became a gathering place for amateur sleuthing in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing earlier this year, fueling what some reports called 'online witch hunts' that resulted in some people being falsely identified as the bomber. Now Andrea Peterson reports at the Washington Post that a section on the popular online community for finding the Navy Yard shooters has been banned. 'We banned it because it violated site rules by encouraging the posting of personal information,' says Erik Martin from reddit. The shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning left at least 12, including a gunman dead. But police say there may be another suspect at large, and they 'have reason to believe' this individual was involved in shootings."

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  1. Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a story about reddit, l predict the usual anti-gun nuts will come out of the woodwork with their gun control agenda.

    This is plainly offtopic and should be discouraged by modding all threads down.

    Keep it ontopic folks, otherwise you are hijacking the conversation and violating slashdot policy.

    1. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      oppression comes in many forms. Preventing the right of people to defend themselves from folks who don't care what the law says... well, that's even more fucked up than what you're describing.

    2. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by bhcompy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Civilized countries like Switzerland, where almost everyone has an assault rifle at home at one time or another and has an option to take a fire arm home for free from the government after their mandatory military service? That country is pretty goddamn civilized.

    3. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Preventing the right of people to defend themselves from folks who don't care what the law says... well, that's even more fucked up than what you're describing.

      yeah because that's worked out so well! do you carry a gun everywhere just in case there is a shooting massacre? what sort of fucked up hick wants to live in a society (pretty loose use of the term in this context) where everybody is carrying a deadly weapon and trained to kill? the best trained with the biggest gun will be the one left standing.

    4. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This by halivar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      This is getting tedious. America has had more guns than people since Euros first stepped foot on it 500 years ago. If guns haven't turned the US into a lawless Mad Max apocalyptic wasteland by now, chances are it isn't going to anytime soon.

      Oh wait you mean the real solution is too hard so you have to have to run and hide under so called gun rights?

      And WTF does it even mean to "run and hide" under gun rights? This is histrionic babble.