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Because reddit isn’t the government? If they don’t like it, they can tell you to take it somewhere else. Just like they did to /r/deepfakes
by diogenescynic 9y ago
Because reddit isn’t the government? If they don’t like it, they can tell you to take it somewhere else. Just like they did to /r/deepfakes
- Karunamon 9y agoCensorship is not something only governments can do. I think we’re well beyond the point it’s time to have a national conversation about how these private companies exist as the public commons nowadays. They make these entirely capricious and disgustingly transparent swings between “Place for open discussion and free speech” (actually the founders exact words in many an interview in Reddit’s case) when the owners want attention and hype and warm fuzzies from the user base, “private company” when it suits their needs or they’re challenged on their principles.
- zaccus 9y agoThat's their prerogative though. They can be capricious if they want, and you're free to not use the service if you don't like it. Reddit is beholden to their shareholders, not their users.
- lulmerchant 9y agoMy point is that it's still censorship, whether done by a private company or by a government, and whether they have the legal right to do so or not.
- zaccus 9y agoAnd my point is that it doesn't matter. Companies censor stuff all the time. Reddit can censor whatever they want.
- lulmerchant 9y agoLegally this is most likely correct. But you can't have your cake and eat it to. If you support political censorship (which you might have a good reason to do), then you have to own that. You can't support political censorship and then justify it by saying it's not censorship.
- lulmerchant 9y agoYou're correct, they do have the legal right to censor anything they like.
- orionblastar 9y agoThis site: http://voat.co http://voat.co is where the right wingers go after being banned from Reddit and also http://gab.ai http://gab.ai when banned from Twitter.