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Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, [Reddit] announced a new policy clarifying its rules against content that incites violence. "We will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people," Reddit administrator landoflobsters wrote. Promoting harm to animals is also against the rules. Within minutes, moderators started to ban a long list of controversial subreddits, including /r/Nazi, /r/DylannRoofInnocent, /r/SexWithDogs, /r/WhitesAreCriminals, and /r/PicsOfDeadKids. The bounds of propriety remain fairly wide at Reddit, however. Commenters pointed out that /r/WatchPeopleDie -- which is exactly what it sounds like -- is still around. Landoflobsters said that site administrators have "no plans to remove it for now." The self-explanatory -- and horrifying -- /r/CuteFemaleCorpses is also still active. Evidently, merely depicting violence is fine as long as people in a subreddit don't glorify violence. In practice, of course, the line between these things is pretty thin. A subreddit devoted to merely discussing violent acts is naturally going to attract people who like to promote violent acts -- especially after bans of related subreddits where those people previously hung out. Reddit's new policy seems like the basis for an endless game of Whac-A-Mole as the Internet's creeps search for new places to exchange disturbing content.
I have never understood the Libertarian philosophy. They don't want roads, schools, electrical power, sewage, or running water because that is "socialism". They don't believe in social programs. Then, they wonder why people and companies leave for countries that have more civilization, making their country's economy continue to falter. Even the stupidest farmer knows that to get a harvest, crops need to be planted, but the Libertarian expects a bountiful reward from a field they have zero interest in planting.
From what I've seen, the Libertarian ideal is Somalia, where everyone fends for themselves. However, I don't see a massive exodus of Ayn Rand followers to that country... but they want to bring that to our soil.
No successful country can run on the Ayn Rand philosophy, or Libertarianism. It just ensures a slide to eventual chaos and revolution as people lose hope and take up arms (that, or go quietly into the cold, dark night.)
tl;dr... look at California and compare it to West Virginia or a southern state that has Libertarianism as a value. Guess which is more prosperous? Guess what makes the history books? The proof is in the pudding.