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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).
" It's to get the insufferable assholes to go be insufferable somewhere else."
Sorry, when you go as far as to claim that you want to be the governor/president of the internet (as Reddit has done) you need to accept us assholes, because we're your reality check.
Speaking of reality check: This whole banning thing is jack shit compared to the real story; the company that runs Reddit and Imgur is now popping up images in popular Imgur user's favorites that are actually ads the user never favorited, and have made it pretty difficult to remove (I have yet to find a way.) They're essentially forcing your endorsement, and usurping your identity.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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.