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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by Veedrac on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:11PM (#9868018)
If your version of free speech means allowing anything to be said anywhere, I don't want it. The principle of free speech I subscribe to is allowing anyone a place such that those who want to listen, can. In essence, to prevent one party silencing a communication between two other parties. Reddit need not be that place.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by geomark on Saturday July 11, 2015 @02:49AM (#9868825)
That's a good definition. But even that approach will fail when those with power define the "place such that those who want to listen, can" to be so small that nobody can find it. An example is the so-called free speech zones at some colleges that are small designated spots far from earshot of the entire campus population.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by ketralnis on Saturday July 11, 2015 @03:45AM (#9868944)
> that approach will fail when those with power define the "place such that those who want to listen, can" to be so small that nobody can find it

Okay. But reddit isn't "those with power". reddit isn't making it illegal to do it elsewhere.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by geomark on Saturday July 11, 2015 @07:25AM (#9869367)
Agree. I was speaking more in general rather than specifically about reddit.
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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by crdoconnor on Saturday July 11, 2015 @04:27AM (#9869040)
>Reddit need not be that place.

Nope, but then again, being that place is what made it grow so large in the first place.

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Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief by dmfdmf on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:19PM (#9868044)
Can you elaborate? Its not clear to me where we disagree, if at all.
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