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Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits
AmiMoJo writes: Reddit's new CEO, Steve Huffman, announced new a content policy and the banning of a small number of subreddits today. Additionally, some subreddits will be "quarantined", so users can't see their content unless they explicitly opt in. "Our most important policy over the last ten years has been to allow just about anything so long as it does not prevent others from enjoying Reddit for what it is: the best place online to have truly authentic conversations.I believe these policies strike the right balance."
The names of the nixed subreddits make clear that they're not exactly neighbors exchanging pleasantries.
A free website run by a company doesn't do something you like, and you call it censorship?
Dude, can I come over later, drink your beer, hang out -- who cares if you like me or if I pay for any damages, you wouldn't want to be against "censorship", would you?
If you want flagrant unsubstantiated and indefensible racism, most routers still manage to handle connection requests to the servers at stormfront and about a hundred other different sites.
That's exactly what I figured, too. There's already perfectly good places on the Internet for these folks to go. Maybe these sites aren't as cool 'n hip as Reddit, but then, coolness and hipness aren't so much of a concern for racists, are they? :-)
I kind of can't help but wonder if the older-school douchebags on Stormfront et al. will be happy to get the influx of new blood, or if it'll be their equivalent of Eternal September....
"shadow banning" is a bizarre "banned not banned" situation. The shadowbanned person can post, and to them it looks as if their post goes through but nobody can see the post aside from admins and the poster.
They don't have to. Then again, as they keep changing the rules, it's difficult to argue against people who were perfectly compliant to the former rules that they did something wrong.
Mostly it seems like a place where the assholes of the world can get together and continue being the assholes of the world.
You know, the same assholes who show up here complaining about "SJWs" and acting like a bunch of petulant children because they have no lives and think being assholes makes them clever.
And nothing of value was lost.
In Warlizard's case (the guy who wrote the comment the GP reposted), he, talking about censorship, said that if reddit stands for "free speech" as they claim to, then no they shouldn't ban offensive subreddits like /r/rapingwomen.... SRS took the first part of that and ran with it, called him a "rapist," followed him around, harassing him, and leaving nasty reviews on Amazon of the books he's authored.
I had something very much like that happen on reddit a few years back. I forget the context, because the context was so amazingly innocuous. It was something like: Someone said of a suspected child rapist, "This guy doesn't deserve rights. He should just be dragged out into the middle of town and beaten to death." to which I responded, "No, obviously everyone should get a trial. We don't know what happened or what extenuating circumstances there might have been, which is why we have trials."
There was no response for a couple of hours, and then my inbox got flooded with people threatening me. I found that someone had responded to my post claiming that I was defending child molesters, and therefore must be one. The response was upvoted a couple hundred times, and there were a bunch of responses like, "Yeah, this guy is a piece of shit. How dare he defend child molesters."
The whole thing was so insane to me that I didn't even bother responding. I immediately deleted my account. It was one of those moments that makes me a little terrified of the Internet. I don't know exactly why my post became a target, whether someone linked to it on another subreddit or something, but I was pretty disturbed by the experience. I had the distinct feeling that if any personal information had been associated with my account, I would have been harassed and possibly assaulted in real life, simply because I made the mistake of advocating for due process and rule of law in a public forum.
According to SJW's and the far radical left, racism = prejudice + power. Thus only whites can be racists.
You can't forget all the crazy shit they're saying these days either, like ignoring someones race and basing actions on merit is racist. Merit is also racist, that's why github removed their meritocracy belief and inserted a CoC that directly targets whites. And before some radical nut starts with a 'lulz u white, u mad' post. Don't worry, you can call me a uncle tom, or something since I'm only half-white.
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