Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by nordsieck on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:15PM (#23679595)

> Both sides have free speech rights and both have outcomes that support that speech...

Free speech has 2 distinct meanings:

1. The legal right to be free from government interference to most speech.

2. The cultural norm to tolerate speech you disagree with in order to foster political inclusion.

You're correct under meaning 1; you're not correct under meaning 2.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by T-hawk on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:21PM (#23679708)

This is correct, those two ideas are often mistaken for each other.

Reddit is not a governmental entity, and as a private platform, has every right to decide what speech it will or will not publish.

But we can wish that Reddit as a speech platform would embrace the principles of the First Amendment rather than suppressing all the speech it doesn't like.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by ntsplnkv2 on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:02PM (#23681180)

> But we can wish that Reddit as a speech platform would embrace the principles of the First Amendment rather than suppressing all the speech it doesn't like.

That's easy to say when you aren't liable for any damages caused by said speech.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by afiori on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:27PM (#23679804)

> Reddit [..] has every right to decide what speech it will or will not publish.

For legal reason that publish should be host.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by afiori on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:55AM (#23689146)

Edit: host or promote

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