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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by exstudent2 on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:14PM (#9898950)
When the value of that property is determined entierly by the size and engagement of the community using it (a community that gathered largely around the ethos of Free Speech), it's not necessarily a smart thing to attack them.

It's quite trendy now to push the meaning of censorship all the way back to a legal definition around the first amendment and say things like private companies can't censor people. That's simply not true. Removing information is censorship.

Reddit was born on the spirit of freedom of speech and repealing it, while fully with their rights, will be the death of Reddit.

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by babygoat on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:21PM (#9898989)
> Reddit was born on the spirit of freedom of speech

Was it though?

"back when I was running things, if there was anything racist, sexist, or homophobic I'd ban it right away. I don't think there's a place for such things on reddit. Of course, now that reddit is much bigger, I understand if maybe things are different." http://www.vox.com/2015/7/15/8967721/reddit-yishan-wong-elle...

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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by exstudent2 on Thursday July 16, 2015 @02:28PM (#9899032)
It was, right after the new CEO said it's NOT a bastion of free speech someone found a quote from a founder saying that it was precisely that:

https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/conten...

Also first sentence on http://www.reddit.com/rules "reddit is a pretty open platform and free speech place, but there are a few rules"

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