TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
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Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#2Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#3Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
> Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
I'm having a hard time telling from the link, but it seems that /u/spez censored personal insults directed at him, which, while still inexcuseable, is quite different from censoring merely alternative viewpoints.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#4Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
Part of the problem is that it seems like the lines between legitimate conservative views and hate speech were blurred a little bit this election. I live in Minnesota and Trump came and talked about Somali refugees here in a way that angered a lot of residents. That's even not counting the people who are blatantly racist like the ones that put up posters based off of literal Nazi propaganda at the university I used to go to.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#5Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
The same Trump who dominated media coverage for about a year? The one who participated in televised debates seen by millions? If anything, the problem was that his views got too much coverage.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#6Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
The same Trump who dominated media coverage for about a year? The one who participated in televised debates seen by millions? If anything, the problem was that his views got too much coverage.
His views got too much coverage, I agree. Negative coverage though. Imagine if the media was unbiased.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#7Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
Ah yes because the mainstream media censored Trump so much. I didn't see any coverage of him or his views anywhere! And I certainly didn't see the bullshit he said just simply parroted and repeated in newspaper headlines without any clarification or fact checking at all.
Give me a fucking break.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same Trump who dominated media coverage for about a year? The one who participated in televised debates seen by millions? If anything, the problem was that his views got too much coverage.
His views got too much coverage, I agree. Negative coverage though. Imagine if the media was unbiased.
The reason why so much of it was negative is because the majority of things he said were flat out lies or smearing other people.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#9I agree that the sub-reddit shouldn't have done that and i agree that it was in bad taste. However, i feel it's a bad idea to censor reddit.
You're targeting a single commnunity, what is to stop you from doing it to others? How do you decide that this needs to be censored and this doesn't, i honestly think they handled this very poorly and reading it left a bad taste in my mouth.
I'm sorry if you disagree with me but this is my opinion.
Re: TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez)
#10Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.
> Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president. I'm having a hard time telling from the link, but it seems that /u/spez censored personal insults directed at him, which, while still inexcuseable, is quite different from censoring merely alternative viewpoints.
That's probably not worse, but it's so incredibly petulant... I am not sure what it is about reddit that tends to attract such childish execs. First Yishan, now him.