Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart

I'm no Trump supporter but this piece is brutal in its implicit bias. Essentially, "free speech should not be enjoyed by those that hold the wrong opinion!"

Re: Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart

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Post by brianwawok » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 2:40 AM UTC

tux1968 wrote: post #7

I'm no Trump supporter but this piece is brutal in its implicit bias. Essentially, "free speech should not be enjoyed by those that hold the wrong opinion!"

That's not at all how this is going down.

There are rules about mobbing other subs with garbage. No one would care If they kept to their own sub.

Re: Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart

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Post by harryh » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 2:41 AM UTC

As someone who reads reddit fairly frequently, this doesn't reflect my experience on the site. In reality there is no unified reddit. I've taken a gander at /r/The_Donald a couple of times (mostly out of morbid curiosity) but other than those few times I've experienced very little impact of whatever it is they are doing.

I read some sports subredits. I read some culture subredits. I read some of the bigger basic entertaining but silly subreddits like /r/AskReddit and /r/TodayILearned. And, to be honest, I really haven't noticed much impact by these nefarious elements (or whatever you want to call them).

I'm sure others have had different experiences from me, but from my point of view whatever "crazy shit" is going down is mostly confined to certain sub-sections of the site that are easily avoided.

Re: Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart

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Post by leurfete » Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 2:42 AM UTC

wnevets wrote: post #4

ky738 wrote: post #3

"Its members spread coded hate speech" yeah had to stop nice bias

you're right, its not even coded hate speech.

I took a look at their sub. I couldn't find any hate speech (though I ignored heavily downvoted comments). I'm also suspicious of "coded hate speech" since that concept grants license to attach racist connotations to just about any sentence.

Is there a post on r/The_Donald that stands out to you as being hate speech?