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The reason people raise issues of free speech is that Reddit-style sites act more like a public utility and less like a single community. Reddit is a community
by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
The reason people raise issues of free speech is that Reddit-style sites act more like a public utility and less like a single community. Reddit is a community of communities. The argument is that Reddit itself shouldn't limit speech, but that the individual communities within it can decide for themselves how to regulate discussion.
- tedks 10y agoThis is the same tired justification of injustice that "states rights" advocates trot out.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoI don't think that really compares.
- Barrin92 10y agoand reddit really is just one aggregator among many others, we can play this Matryoshka thing all day.
- norea-armozel 10y agoThere's a huge problem with calling sites like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and the rest utilities is that it implies there's no other means to communicate effectively on the web. The reality is that we have RSS, Atom, blogs, Bittorrent, and many other easy to use technologies for which anyone can share their content. It's not like these are hidden behind console commands on Linux as these are readily available for use via for-pay (and some free) providers. So, your argument doesn't hold in terms of the practical aspects of a utility who has a legal and material monopoly (the web cannot exclude other technologies and their adoptions like say the power grid can).