Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
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Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
#2Like Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, reddit has gone to hell. The only downside to this is the wave of nutjobs that will attempt to flock over to here. I'm crossing my fingers in hope that that they won't discover this place.
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#3Do we need scare quotes around "censorship" when reddit is telling them particular names are unmentionable in any context?
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#4Like Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, reddit has gone to hell. The only downside to this is the wave of nutjobs that will attempt to flock over to here. I'm crossing my fingers in hope that that they won't discover this place.
Your position on the article is unclear. Has the admin pool gone to hell for hiring a likely passive accomplice in pedophilia? Has the site gone to hell for organizing blackouts when issues come to light (SOPA, this, etc.), or for reasons unrelated to the article?
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#5Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules.
Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
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#6Reddit as a whole is less useful since comment sections were demoted from first class citizens to something barely usable. I think they saw imgur as a threat and wanted to better replicate that experience.
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#7Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules. Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
self-censoring is still censoring so reddit inc gets best ofboth worlds, data from the subs and a clean outwardfacing facade.
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#8This is the Reddit "Out of the Loop" thread that sort of explains what's happening: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mbeycw/whats_...
It's still somewhat difficult to find a clear explanation because the admins were banning people who mentioned her by name (despite the fact that she is a public/political figure in the UK). That had an extremely chilling effect on the discussions, but now the Streisand Effect is kicking in.
Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’
#9Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules. Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
It can. Reddit can simply remove all the mods from the subreddits and make them public again.
Nobody should be under any illusion that they "own" their subreddits.
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#10I find it interesting that Reddit still manages to find themselves invoking the Streisand effect in full force.