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Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond
New submitter sethstorm writes: As a change to their community management, Reddit administrators have banned multiple communities (known as subreddits) in a bid to remove harassment. In response, users have responded in different ways — some have pointed out the bias of Reddit admins for leaving known harassers alone such as those in the "SRS" subreddit, others have attempted to re-create the banned subreddit "FatPeopleHate", and many have gone to overwhelm Voat (a competitor).
Who said, "The Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it"? Yes. It's old. You've probably heard it a million times; but it's so apropos.
Less "censorship" and more like "cockroaches scurrying away from the light". Harassment has become a real problem and we're no less free for allowing it (the NSA still has everything anyway); if we're going to have the downside of draconian surveillance then we should benefit from the upside of harassing jerks being held accountable.
At the least, they shouldn't be allowed forums to use as launch pads FOR every liberal, feminist or outrage hustler that wants someones scalp.
Hey fixed that for you. Remember tolerance is only having people that agree with you.