Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20
by jmduke on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:09PM
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They have banned other politically incorrect subreddits before (jailbait).
You understand that /r/jailbait wasn't banned for being 'politically incorrect', right?
Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20
by jquery on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:37PM
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Sure it was. While being more abhorrent to most people's moral sensibilities than the hard drug forums, the activity going on there was no more or less illegal.
Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20
by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:19AM
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Child porn and hard drugs are both illegal.
Re:4chan now offers self-serve advertising starting at $20
by jquery on Monday July 01, 2013 @08:36PM
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> It's fine for Reddit to make a decision to ban a subreddit because it might garner some bad press. However, it is ironic that Reddit call, or even consider itself a bastion free speech. They have banned other politically incorrect subreddits before (jailbait).
A lot of people saw this coming when jailbait was banned. As abhorrent as it was, they were the tip of the iceberg in the Great Purification of Reddit. Once that door is open, the admins at Reddit HQ have to meet and defend the content of subreddits instead of merely evaluating the legality of their existence. Which is why I'm not surprised /r/nrs was banned this week. There's plenty more subreddits that will be equally difficult to defend in a corporate meeting.
None of those groups ever "raided" anyone, unless you define it as linking from one subreddit to another. None of them ever encouraged downvoting, or even participation (although you can't expect them to not participate at all).
Some -- or at least one -- of the Reddit admins is a participant of the SRS (Shit Reddit Says) community which is notorious for being #1 for "brigading" other subs and massively downvoting anything and everything they disagree with. They have never even been considered for a ban to my knowledge, even though they sometimes discuss things like killing men.
It's fine for Reddit to make a decision to ban a subreddit because it might garner some bad press. However, it is ironic that Reddit call, or even consider itself a bastion free speech. They have banned other politically incorrect subreddits before (jailbait).
If you look at the rules which offending subreddits supposedly violated, you'll see that they are really just a tool for Reddit admins to selectively ban whomever they want.
"..regularly raided by Stormfront" -- I actually laughed out loud at this. Please, grow up.