Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control
by tptacek on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:01PM
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Reddit is in fact owned by Reddit. The Internet is not in fact owned by any particular company. None of your logic coheres.
Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control
by brhsagain on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:08PM
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You are just telling me what the current state of the law is and how society is currently run. I agree that is the world we live in. I am making a prescriptive argument about how I think we ought to do things. Maybe my argument is weak; I’ll keep trying.
Re:Reddit Mods and Scaling Problems in Social Control
by tptacek on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:17PM
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My take is that the word "just" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I'm not super interested in debating alternate constitutions; personally, I for the most part like the one we have. I might not be your best discussion partner on this.
This really seems like a case where the existing categories in the law created hundreds of years ago are no longer adequate to capture present realities, similar to how they didn't have AR-15s in mind when they wrote 2A. If you ask whether Reddit is a public or private company, sure, it's private. But if you look at what intuitions back then were around "public" and "private", and for that matter around what "speech" was, it seems like the real answer is that (in regards to this debate) Reddit is a third type of thing that doesn't have a name yet.
> Get a blog! The very worst people on Earth have managed to keep blogs running.
This might illustrate my point better. I assume you don't support people getting banned straight off the internet. Is it simply because no one owns the internet, but Reddit is owned by Reddit (the company)? Maybe it's time for that boundary to be reexamined.