Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by adamsea on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:17PM
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Without specific circumstances extreme moderation is in the eye of the beholder.
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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by rightos on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:20PM
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They literally delete anything that questions straight up communist views.
Read their sidebar. I don't think that's exactly "in the eye of the beholder".
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by pessimizer on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:50PM
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They're a straight up communist sub. Why wouldn't they? You seem to be complaining that a board game site bans you when you repeatedly post "board games are stupid, you should play video games."
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by trophycase on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:28PM
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Board games aren't an abstract concept greatly up for debate and they don't influence the minds of thousands of young kids and adults who will and do vote.
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by StellarTabi on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:03PM
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Sure, but at the same time, the video game enthusiast club isn't the right place to barge in and argue with everyone that violence causes video games.
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by rightos on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:01PM
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Yes, I'll admit to that to some extent, but it's a toxic environment when a subreddit like that regularly appears on the front page yet disallows any sort of significant discussion. For similar toxicity reasons they hid The_Donald from the front page, which I'd say is about equally as toxic. So why's the treatment different here?
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by notMick on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:20PM
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Toxic means, they don't agree with me?
Toxic and hate speech are recently invented terms to curtail free speech. If I said anyone who wanted communism were hateful (they hate capitalists) and supporting a historically violent ideology, I'd be as right/wrong as people on the left doing the same.
Anti free speech are a means to an end really, power.
Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ...
by rightos on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:53PM
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I generally agree with you here actually, I wouldn't want any of this to be used to completely suppress speech, but I don't think it's unreasonable to hide by default communities which are higher friction to some degree.
I can definitely see a completely open alternative viewpoint, but reddit has already gone in a very different direction.