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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by rightos on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:01PM (#16878313)
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?
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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by notMick on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:20PM (#16878549)
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.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by rightos on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:53PM (#16878892)
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.

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