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Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by pulkitsh1234 »

This hurts so much, Goes on to show the lengths people will go to portray themselves as being politically correct.

Whenever I get thoughts of doing something to change the "system", I just end up getting discouraged and disheartened to the core because of what happened with Aaron.

The one thing which stood out to me was that this guy spent time interning in government offices just to understand how it operated from inside out.

I have enormous respect for people who stop being being keyboard warriors and actually head into the swaps to understand how difficult and complex a situation is, instead of just intellectualising and theory-crafting about society based on information available online.

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by agumonkey »

sebmellen wrote: post #4

Reddit is very clearly not in favour of free speech: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/reddit-bans-thedonald-and-... . Aaron Swartz was very clearly in favour of free speech: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becausewecan . I think the reasons for this are self-evident.

This sub being shut has nothing to do with restricting free speech, isn't it ?

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by gonzo41 »

brodouevencode wrote: post #3

Can we all agree reddit is effectively run from the top down, that moderation at the subreddit level is a joke, that they are even more two faced than Twitter, and that (worse) they’re doing a terrible job of covering it up?

Yet they have a lot of content. It works if you don't try and build up a profile and just talk crap on the internet.

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by mard »

sebmellen wrote: post #4

Reddit is very clearly not in favour of free speech: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/reddit-bans-thedonald-and-... . Aaron Swartz was very clearly in favour of free speech: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becausewecan . I think the reasons for this are self-evident.

Free speech stands against the financial interests of social media. Reddit is the real estate for ads, and the best value for top global advertisers are safe spaces that are free of controversy. In the end, it's the advertisers that decide what is allowed to be published there.

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by sebmellen »

agumonkey wrote: post #12
sebmellen wrote: post #4

Reddit is very clearly not in favour of free speech: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/reddit-bans-thedonald-and-... . Aaron Swartz was very clearly in favour of free speech: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becausewecan . I think the reasons for this are self-evident.

This sub being shut has nothing to do with restricting free speech, isn't it ?

Shutting down platforms for discussion is quite literally restricting free speech.

If you want to argue Reddit has a right to do that, sure. But that's not the argument.

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by easytiger »

cryptica wrote: post #9

Most of the elites are weak, cowardly and selfish hypocrites. There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. They'll fall like dominoes the minute the tension starts to rise... If you're an elite and you have any strength at all, you'd better start throwing your buddies under the bus soon. It's going to be you or them. They're so weak and so selfish, you don't have much time left before they start t…

Pretty good example of the kind of nonsense endemic on Reddit

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by agumonkey »

sebmellen wrote: post #15
agumonkey wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sub being shut has nothing to do with restricting free speech, isn't it ?

Shutting down platforms for discussion is quite literally restricting free speech. If you want to argue Reddit has a right to do that, sure. But that's not the argument.

was it discussion ? or more ?

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by krapp »

easytiger wrote: post #16
cryptica wrote: post #9

Most of the elites are weak, cowardly and selfish hypocrites. There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. They'll fall like dominoes the minute the tension starts to rise... If you're an elite and you have any strength at all, you'd better start throwing your buddies under the bus soon. It's going to be you or them. They're so weak and so selfish, you don't have much time left before they start t…

Pretty good example of the kind of nonsense endemic on Reddit

Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon here, either.

Re: Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

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Post by ameen »

082349872349872 wrote: post #5

As they say in the Belt, "inyalowda tili tenya fit detim fo bang fit xitim" (They own the past to control the present).

For the uninitiated, this is from the sci-fi series, “The Expanse” which has found a home on Amazon Prime. Highly recommended for those interested in an interplanetary sci-fi.
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