Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffPost for Bad Journalism

Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP... by staringispolite on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:56PM (#6670025)

Filtering is not always bad, especially not when it's done transparently, and in pursuit of a better community. To claim that filtering out those low-quality sites, when there are many higher quality sites covering the exact same topics, in just as timely a manner is somehow equivalent to censoring Google results in China - is just disingenuous.

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Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP... by ferdo on Thursday November 07, 2013 @08:22AM (#6689126)

> Filtering is not always bad

That wasn't the issue. The issue was the word 'censorship' being perceived as a biased word. Only censors or those with the predilection to censor would think the word is "biased".

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Re:Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffP... by staringispolite on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:05PM (#6697417)

If your position is that the word censorship does not have a negative connotation, I don't know anyone who would agree with you, including, it would seem, your earlier comments.

I'm positing that filtering has neither a positive nor a negative connotation; that all information gets through anyway, it's only low-quality sources of the same information that are filtered; and that calling it censorship in a comment inappropriately pre-disposes the reader to a negative reaction.

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