Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by SixSigma on Saturday July 11, 2015 @03:00AM
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9front, a fork of plan9, includes Mein Kampf in the distribution as a kind of trolling canary.
We only burn the bad books, right?
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by lmartel on Sunday July 12, 2015 @10:26PM
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Oh, then you're right, this is definitely less okay. I was under the impression that they just stopped delivering them from Walmart (or wherever) via Shopping Express, rather than special-casing the search results.
I guess the argument one could make is that the confederate flag is more dangerous and relevant today, but I don't really buy that.
Occam's razor suggests this is just an easy PR grab. They get a few headlines in mainstream tech press for free, and very minor backlash from "free speech nutjubs" as the only downside.
Re:Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief
by tomjen3 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @07:49AM
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They probably also sell the soviet flag, copies of Das Capital etc. Equally horrible but for the other side.
Also side note: reading Mein Kampf doesn't make you a nazi, indeed if more people had read it back in the day somebody might have stooped that little corporal.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nazi+swastica&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...
Not to mention copies of the Mein Kampf, etc.
Thankfully, the various non-Nazi uses of the swastika appear to be the most popular, but you can find plenty of Nazi items. I dislike the meaning of both symbols, so I have a hard time imagining any logic where it's okay to sell one of them but not the other.