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> On one hand I'm against censorship, I feel like censorship isn't the right word for this but I can't think of a better one.
Curated speech.
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Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
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Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#42Reddit has become a real cesspool over the past few years. You'll always find misogyny front and center and you don't have to dig to find racism.
I've been on reddit for 8 years, and lurked before that. The top submissions and comments have always, and consistently, been standard-issue PC/liberal in their overall view.
In the years since SJW turned from a meaningful term into a catch-all for anyone who advocates for social justice in any way other than qualifying lip service[1], the general reddit crowd has noticeably moved away from standard-issue PC/liberal to anglo-centric liberal. Systemic issues of injustice are portrayed as primarily matters of self-fulfilling prophecy. The protestant work ethic is heavily espoused for minorities, but it's all systemic issues when it comes to college grads having a hard time finding a job.
The same is true to a lesser degree[2] for many women's issues, though I hesitate to mention it because this community isn't immune either.
[1] Ex) "I hate racism as much as the next guy..."
[2] Or maybe I don't appreciate it as much.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#43I'm hoping this thread gets deleted, because the shitstorm is just going to come here sooner or later.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#44This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/all/ if you feel like seeing all the ugliness. (And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and/or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.) I don't fault the Reddi…
You've got to give Christopher Poole credit, he was never dumb enough to try to police 4chan. This is as laughable as trying to get rid of trolling on IRC.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#45The idea is to make people who are being harassed on reddit feel safe[0]. This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal. As a policy decision, I think it is pretty weird they started banning communities instead of people. There are a lot of people on reddit and policing individual users would be a challenge. Would something like a "flag harassment" button have the same desired affect? 0 - http://www.r…
I'd imagine a "flag harassment" tool would be used at least as often by abusers as the abused.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#46Reddit has become a real cesspool over the past few years. You'll always find misogyny front and center and you don't have to dig to find racism.
I've been on reddit for 8 years, and lurked before that. The top submissions and comments have always, and consistently, been standard-issue PC/liberal in their overall view.
You'll always find misogyny and racism if that's what you're looking for :)
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#47> We’re banning behavior, not ideas. SRS has always had atrocious behavior that's been forgiven because of their ideas....
Can we please not bring this to HN as well?
Seriously, I started using HN specifically to avoid this sort of crap on reddit.
I would strongly prefer it stay over there.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#48I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand I'm against censorship, on the other I'm against internet bullying. /r/FatPeopleHate was engaging in both. In the end reddit is a private site that can do what it wants. Wikipedia removes things all the time and sites like 4chan remove all sorts of extremely offensive material. I'm glad the mods of the hate oriented subreddits have been shadow banned, I actually think…
Internet bullying? What? Just don't visit places like r/fatpeoplehate if you are fat. Just turn it off.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#49This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/all/ if you feel like seeing all the ugliness. (And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and/or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.) I don't fault the Reddi…
You've got to give Christopher Poole credit, he was never dumb enough to try to police 4chan. This is as laughable as trying to get rid of trolling on IRC.
Reddit is a venture-funded company with a large staff that needs to monetize. Nobody wants their ad next to a post fat-shaming someone.
I don't agree with censorship, however the two sites aren't comparable.
Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
#50This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/all/ if you feel like seeing all the ugliness. (And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and/or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.) I don't fault the Reddi…
Not to mention there's a game of whack-a-mole going on where similar subreddits have been banned including fatpeoplehate2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9.