Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect Users, Attract Advertisers

No, I think it's unhealthy and may lead to such a society, not that we live in such. Do not confuse a fear of a possible future with an irrational fear of a present that isn't.

>Never mind that the slippery slope argument is a known logical fallacy,

I hope you're aware of the fallacy fallacy, yes? I think that might clear things atleast partially up.

The problem I see here is that this is a slippery slope that my country has gone down in the past already and it pains me to see tendencies of this happening in the us.

>never mind that these companies are private entities and can do what they like

An argument can be made that sufficiently large social networks (2 million users or more, for example) should be held to the same standard as a government by the nature of exerting a real power over the people in the network.

>never mind that if Nazis ever gain power they will literally, physically exterminate people they don't like

I think you misinterprete the argument. My worry is not Nazis. Not that I would consider the US citizens who claim to be Nazis to be real Nazis (they're more like kids playing lets-pretend in comparison).

My actual worry is people who will be hurt by this that you don't see because you and people who want to silence Nazis are wearing blinders on each side of your head.

If you want to prevent Nazis from taking power, the easiest solution is to find out why these people are doing the things they are doing and going against the root cause. Nazi-ism is merely a symptom.

>never mind all of that

First they came... I think you know how the rest goes. I forgot.

>and that this will continue to happen, no matter what HN libertarians say

The daily stormer is on Tor now, no? Can you censor Tor?

All the pitchforks do is to drive these people into places where they are safe from them and where the most dedicated of their followers can fester and boil the ideology.

>We are moving forward, and what you're seeing is a last-ditch reaction to pro-racism, neo-nazi communities being marginalized.

Maybe. Maybe people are reacting to things you don't want to acknlowedge and not to actual neo-nazi communities being banned.

There are risks there and I do hope you recognize that people who say this is bad are not automatically defending Neo-Nazis. As that too would be a fallacy.

edit: It would actually be kind of interesting to pull those kinds of statistics and display them — for various subreddits.

It's not. They're reporting on what Trump did. If that's mostly negative, then the coverage is, by necessity, going to be mostly negative. You wouldn't be upset that most of the coverage now of Harvey Weinstein or Louis C.K. is negative, would you?

"If Trump did many negative things and few positive things, then all news publications need to do is simply report on what he's doing and leave it at that."

That's what they did.

"There shouldn't be a need for major news organizations to officially endorse this or that candidate."

That's been a tradition for editorial boards for a long time. Note: That's the editorial, or opinion board. Not the newsroom.

"What's so hard about trusting viewers and readers to come to their own conclusions based on honest, simple, accurate, and exhaustive reporting of events and facts?"

Well, for one, everyone knew the same things about Trump, and yet he was elected. But you're really going to have to prove that what you're asking for didn't happen.

I'm not going to blame those nasty subreddits on the left; I'm going to blame those & all other nasty subreddits on the general nastiness of people, no matter what their philosophy or politics.