> This is an A+ study which seems to confirm that banning subreddits can be an effective way to silence their inhabitants. Was a study needed for that? It's re

> This is an A+ study which seems to confirm that banning subreddits can be an effective way to silence their inhabitants. Was a study needed for that? It's really isn't a good study because it doesn't say anything. > It's nice to get some hard data to counter the theory that if you ban a subreddit consisting of undesirables, they'll simply invade other parts of reddit and continue. In reality, the other parts of reddit aren't nearly so tolerant. But they did invade, that's why all of reddit became censored. > So what's the implication? There are no implications. Censorship works. There are reams and reams of studies that show that. It's why you won't see much tiannamen square stuff on chinese internet, go any lgbt stuff on russian internet or atheist stuff on saudi internet. People are celebrating this study which essentially says "water is wet". Yeah we know.