Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile

Re:Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile by Vinnl on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:48AM (#14386504)

As I saw it, that subreddit was mostly artificially increasing their visibility, and the measures introduced by the admins countered that. So I don't think they're actively trying to reduce the visibility of one political viewpoint, but rather to give it the visibility that is actually somewhat proportional to how much visibility users desire it to have.

But it's a difficult problem.

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Re:Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile by ryanx435 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @10:46AM (#14387528)

They created r popular specifically to censor the_donald and promote the dozens of resist subreddits.

It's pretty crazy: I started on reddit about 10 years ago and it has noticeably changed in their attitude towards allowing political opunions that they do not agree with

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Re:Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile by baq on Sunday May 21, 2017 @02:33PM (#14388466)

Think about it this way: your communication platform serving several hundred million users is being trolled by a very vocal minority which happens to be politically aligned and it cannot be excluded that the trolling is in some cases inspired and sponsored by a foreign nation state. Do you really keep your hands off the wheel because free speech?

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Re:Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile by ryanx435 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:29AM (#14399234)

Yes, Absolutely. I'm a firm believer that once social media platforms reach a certain size that they should be managed much the same as any public space: free speech is of the utmost importance.

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Re:Washington Post launches a Reddit public profile by pas on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:07PM (#14388101)

There were/are 100m+ user, who wanted none of that political shitstorm. it's not a witch hunt.

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