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A comment on The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by AndrewStephens on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:47PM (#15221055)
Ummm, because the sub is a public forum.

If you are chatting among friends in real life they can see your body language and hear your tone of voice. If someone takes offense you can immediately back-peddle.

Submitting a comment to a webpage (either public or protected) is more like writing graffiti on a public wall. Nobody knows or cares what your intentions were.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by hackinthebochs on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:55PM (#15222245)
I see it more like standing in a corner with your friends talking about whatever (in this case a specific topic). Sure, someone can walk by, overhear the conversation and be offended. But to call that making public comments in some form is missing the point of the distinction between public and private.
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