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Reddit Will 'Hide' Vile Content After Policy Change
AmiMoJo writes: It will be more difficult to find "abhorrent" content posted to community news site Reddit, the site has announced. It stopped short of banning the material outright and instead will require users to log-in to access it. The company reiterated its existing complete bans of illegal content, including child abuse images and so-called "revenge porn." Chief executive and co-founder Steve Huffman told users: "We've spent the last few days here discussing, and agree that an approach like this allows us as a company to repudiate content we don't want to associate with the business, but gives individuals freedom to consume it if they choose."
I really feel like the quotes should be around 'vile' instead of 'hide'
How will they determine what free speech is "abhorrent"? Anything that doesn't fit into the SJW group think?
I don't understand why the following doesn't solve all discussion board problems with trolls. OK here goes:
1) the ability to declare someone either interesting or a troll (or neither) and have such cumulative count public.
2) have the option to hide from your view all posts by poster X
3) have the option to hide all poster's posts hidden by one or more posters you think are interesting
4) have a reputation report available on each poster, including yourself, on how many or what % of posters are hiding that posters posts and how many of those posters you marked interesting.
Done.
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RESULT:
1) you can learn from long timers who the trolls are and inherit their preferences.
2) you can block someone without declaring him to be a troll
3) you can see how people see you. Trolls whose posts aren't seen go away.
Slashdot has something like this in prototype. But it seems simple to me. Implement that and you're basically done.
Seriously, what am I missing?
Because viles where the money is?
Seriously strange decision.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Reddit introducing three tier content tiers: approved / hidden / banned. They announced that they would hide some of the undesirable content, as the summary said, but they are outright banning other content - they gave the example of /r/rapingwomen as a subreddit which would be banned, not hidden.
/r/justiceporn though, the real differentiator is probably better characterized as: "subs which we don't like and which also have a violence theme."
The differentiator between a sub to be banned and a sub to be hidden is officially the promotion of violence. Given the unlikelihood they that would start banning subs like
Free speech doesn't have anything to do with a constitution. It's worldwide, not American.
Not as long as /r/coontown and it's ilk continue to exist with thousands of subscribers.
Reddit can't profit from hate and expect my patronage.
You're actually correct... contrary to the hivemind. The US constitution protects the Freedom of Speech from government interference. It didn't create the idea, it protects it.
Likewise, in most societies, Freedom of Speech is a cultural law. It's assumed. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" was from Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906. Going all the way back, Athens, had the Freedom of Speech in the 5th century B.C.. The Romans also had Freedom of Speech. It's also apart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and binding on all UN member states.
Just because the USA government's constitution only protects the Freedom of Speech from itself, doesn't mean it's not fucking important, worth fighting for, or a real thing outside of the government interactions.
Moreover, Freedom of Speech does move into the private sector in certain situations. Such as the landmark Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins case of 1980. In California, per their additional state constitutional wording, you can exercise your right to free speech in private shopping centers as long as you are peaceful. Many states have similar wording but have not followed as they are worried about the implications. But the point remains, the idea that "Freedom of Speech" means nothing except with regard to the USA federal government is a stupid lie.
If you're the sort of tool who posts revenge porn on Reddit then I guarantee you that the Reddit admins know better than you do.
Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Because even the single most toxic sub on the entire website which openly tries to goad at-risk users into committing suicide, routinely engages in doxing, and considers brigading to be a core part of their sub's existence still has the favor of the admins.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
reddit is coming down hard on progressives.
How? So, you've gone out and created your own web site where you can "progressive" yourself all day long on any topic you like ... how are the people that run Reddit's private web site interfering with you running your own web site? Please be specific. If you don't provide clear evidence of how Reddit is preventing you from running your own web site as you see fit, then ask yourself what you really mean.
Never mind, I'll tell you what you REALLY want. You want other people to be your web site platform finance and operation slaves so that you don't have to go to the trouble and expense that OTHER people have gone to so you can have the same reach as people who've bothered. In other words, you're being exactly like a typical progressive/liberal: you think you are owed somebody else's time and work just because you exist. You're basically in favor of slavery, where someone else spends part of their daily waking hours to be forced to provide you with something expensive that you want, but aren't willing to build yourself. Classic.
Those of us that are adults understand this is a free speech issue.
No, you mean that those of you who are immature and feeling entitled to someone else's work and resources are pretending that someone else not being in the mood to spend their own time and money in the manner that you stamp your feet and insist they should ... is the same as the government actually interfering with your speech. You have the entire issue 100% backwards. Of course you know this, and you're just trying to wrap your demand for slave labor in rhetoric that you hope other equally wrong-headed people will mistake for being virtuous.
So, please explain how Reddit's storm troopers have shut down your web site. Ready for the details when you're ready to exhibit a little intellectual honesty.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.