Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User...
by imglorp on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:21AM
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Right. Unrestricted, adult conversation is what makes it reddit, not kindergarten. It's not always respectful but neither is real discourse in person. If you make it all kittens and candy, you will lose many demographics.
As for content that breaks the law, there isn't much of that in the U.S., for obvious reasons. Elsewhere it's another story.
As to politics, I don't think you can expect any of these sites to be politically neutral. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit -- all show their bias. It's OK, it's part of life in a free market. There is a concern that many voices can be shut out of the market, and so maybe there will, at some point, be a decent rationale for temporary (say, ten years) regulations on digital town squares.