Reddit Censorship Debate
The cluster discusses Reddit's subreddit bans, moderation policies, and accusations of arbitrary censorship, often highlighting political bias and comparisons to free speech issues.
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Given that Reddit just nearly imploded due to "censorship," this is probably a fair policy.
It's not Reddit's place to police their own site?
What reddit is doing is crazy and it will face consequences for it.
Reddit has already implemented mass arbitrary censorship of subreddits for no good reasons. Stuff like gun subs, r/shoplifting (which I mention not because I like shoplifting, but because it was legitimately informative to learn what they do and why they do it), all sorts of politics subs, plenty of satire subs, and even r/wateriniggas just for the soft nword. They’re ridiculously strict and while it’s good to not ban one, let’s not act like they’re good faith actors here.
Some Reddits are worst then HN when talking about censure.
Reddit has the infrastructure for censorship, they have had to remove content before.
They only ban subreddits as a reaction to them pulling negative publicity. Has to be offensive AND making noise for them to do anything.
It was a big mistake banning it from Reddit. Their own platform is way more radical and informally and in practice allows incitement to violence.
"Reddit" is doing no such thing. The mods have placed a rule on the subreddit.
I thought Reddit was full of Libertarians who were against censorship?