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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

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Post by ljk »

teraflop wrote: post #30

This 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 only on /r/all, now on /r/pics a lof of the links are about... body-sizes, opinions about the CEO, etc

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by fleitz »

adamnemecek wrote: post #21
zxcvcxz wrote: post #8

I 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…

> 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.

It's censorship, in the context of reddit they have appointed officers who censor objectionable speech.

This precisely fits the common definition of censorship (not the legal one)

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by [deleted] »

tmerr wrote: post #50
teraflop wrote: post #30

This 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.

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Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

Notch has the right idea. Why not just block the subreddits you find offensive?

https://twitter.com/notch/status/608706518972788736

Reddit just put the world on notice that they are willing to become user babysitters, and historically this has never ended well for the company involved.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by shard972 »

_kst_ wrote: post #23
smegel wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feminism too.

What? Are you comparing feminism to misogyny and racism?

I don't find mind difference between the conduct of 3rd wave feminists and a lot of the misogyny and racism I see online.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by fleitz »

gkoberger wrote: post #49
fleitz wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The sites are very comparable, which is why everyone is comparing them. 4chan being profitable, and reddit not being profitable don't make them not comparable.

Lots of ads have fat shaming in them, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't want diet pill ads next to fat shaming posts. Have you read any fitness articles recently? It's pretty much fat shaming content, next to ads for things that might make you less fat.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by EC1 »

Navarr wrote: post #2

Clarification from the Reddit Admins on their announcement post indicate that they're banning subs where moderators either took no action or encouraged organized harassment (as in going to other subs or websites and actively harassing the person in question) as opposed to subs that just post awful things about people.

There's over 50 subs currently banned.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by PopeOfNope »

noahbradley wrote: post #6

For an... interesting take on all of this, there's always /r/conspiracy: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/39ddf1/rfatpeop...

Meh. IMHO, the real conspiracy here is Reddit's attempting to make it more palatable for advertisers so they can at least make an attempt at making money.
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