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Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming
An anonymous reader writes: Reddit's new CEO, cofounder Steve Huffman, has made a statement regarding the site's controversial racism- and abuse-related community "subreddits." He said, "we don't have any obligation to support them." In the brief announcement, Huffman explains that a robust content policy is something they have "been thinking about for quite some time" and is in the cards in the near future. It has also come to light via former CEO Yishan Wong that ousted interim boss Ellen Pao was one of the few defenders of the controversial subreddits, favoring a strategy of coexistence over the board's plan to eliminate problem communities. Wong blames another co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, for strategy changes that led to the firing of "Ask Me Anything" administrator Victoria Taylor whose unexpected absence crippled that component of the site.
So glad to know that the defenders of free speech still have a place to share pictures of underage girls, openly discus raping those underage girls, share racist rants and generally discuss how those uppity bitches are keeping men down. Our founding fathers would weep.
Nobody said Reddit was the government. Free speech is exactly what it means - it always makes me laugh when some chucklehead tries to defend censorship and says censorship isn't taking place since the government is not the actor.
Free speech has no meaning until you defend someone else's right to say something you disagree with.
Except, that's not what's going on here. We're talking about a privately run web site, not government interference with speech. If you're all about defending things you don't like, you should be defending Reddit's right to exercise whatever editorial policy they choose to put in place on their own system. Doesn't mean you won't walk away from them as a place to visit on the web, but you should be 100% behind their rights to conduct their business's editorial policy as they see fit. Because the alternative is the lefty PC police wet dream of the government forcing publishers to say what they want them to say. What you should be defending is your right to set up your OWN web site specifically to celebrate all of the stuff that Reddit is looking to have less of. Because you can. And that's what the first amendment is all about.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Clinton's victim was an intern. Sexual Harassment by definition. Massive power imbalance and misuse of influence at the very least.
She was nearly thirty years his junior and still in her psychologically and sexually formative years. Yes a 21-year old is legal, but is still not fully mature. Brain is still developing.
His behavior was abusive, and his attitude to the whole "affair" (essentially a stylized rape) that of a psychopath. He destroyed her life, career, and seriously damaged her mental health, enjoyment of life, etc.
Clinton is a typical leader - an amoral monster who only manipulates people's needs and desires to his own ends. He is exactly the type of person a true progressive should find abhorrent, but those using the progressive or liberal side as just a political chip embrace this loathsome excuse for a human being.