The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by throwawayjava on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:45PM (#15222668)

Indigenous people in Canada, Australia, and the United States were basically rounded up and killed (or re-educated, depending on the century).

Not sure how that's substantially different from the soviets rounding up the ethno-nationalists?

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by rsynnott on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:49PM (#15222718)

I mentioned modern democracy. I'd have serious trouble considering those to be modern democracies at the time. Universal suffrage seems like a minimum requirement.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by throwawayjava on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:56PM (#15222774)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... was still expanding during the 1940's and 1950's when most everyone (except indigenous peoples) could vote.

"We stop killing off / imprisoning people once we give them the right to vote" seems a little too tautological.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by rsynnott on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:00PM (#15222803)

Pretty big exception. No universal suffrage; not a proper modern democracy. They're pretty new, really.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by busterarm on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:13PM (#15222901)

Felons can't vote, today.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by rsynnott on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:29PM (#15223011)

In the US, no. Bit of an oddity; most other democratic countries don't do that.

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