...Which is the problem: It's really hard to actually turn a profit on that model, much less to take responsibility for millions of users. The usenet approach w

...Which is the problem: It's really hard to actually turn a profit on that model, much less to take responsibility for millions of users. The usenet approach was pretty much, "as long as it isn't illegal, do what you will: the local mods are the ones who make the rules." (yes, that wasn't the whole story, but close enough). Reddit's actually trying to clean up their community, and censor outright hatespeech. You may or may not think it's a good idea to do, but it's actually quite difficult.