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Remember that Reddit is also a website with a global footprint. Many other places in the world find the near constant mass shootings abhorrent, feel the US’ ob

Remember that Reddit is also a website with a global footprint. Many other places in the world find the near constant mass shootings abhorrent, feel the US’ obsession with the AR-15 is an abusive relationship, and that the arguments around "guns = freedom" or any discussion of controls around weaponry defy all logic and reason. The USA is a very small part of the global population and are apparently only around 50% of the Reddit user base. For every user who feels Reddit should allow their logo to be associated with guns there are likely 2 or 3 who feel they have a moral obligation to not to promote them.

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago
Same here on HN, I sometimes have the feeling people think "It's English, so it's about the US".
unethical_ban 8y ago
I maintain that if reddit cared as much as the hypothetical majority of reddit users, so much as to revoke licensing of the logo for a US-legal activity, they would quarantine all subs that promote such "immoral" behavior. The reddit admins only care about staying out of the crosshairs. Let jailbait stay around until it's in the news. Let racist subs stay around until an uproar. Let /r/guns use Snoo until a bunch of activists yell long enough. There is no ideology, only pragmatism about keeping pageviews and revenue. They could quarantine /r/guns and related, but they would alienate 350,000 plus accounts. They could ban T_D too, but there are millions of users there. As an aside, I think that is a federal honeypot for Russian agitprop research, but we won't know for years. >and that the arguments around ... any discussion of controls around weaponry defy all logic and reason. I didn't parse that.
r00fus 8y ago
There's also a corporate liability/PR question to ask yourself: how would you feel if some fringe pot group was publicized or mass murderer used a logo-branded weapon stock (that was sold and your company profited from) in an high profile event? Would you be ok with 24/7 news coverage of your brand being associated with that? If so, great, and work to allow it. If not, you should work to reduce your exposure. I'd say that can explain why MJ is ok where guns = not so much.

_Codemonkeyism 8y ago

Same here on HN, I sometimes have the feeling people think "It's English, so it's about the US".

unethical_ban 8y ago

I maintain that if reddit cared as much as the hypothetical majority of reddit users, so much as to revoke licensing of the logo for a US-legal activity, they would quarantine all subs that promote such "immoral" behavior. The reddit admins only care about staying out of the crosshairs. Let jailbait stay around until it's in the news. Let racist subs stay around until an uproar. Let /r/guns use Snoo until a bunch of activists yell long enough. There is no ideology, only pragmatism about keeping pageviews and revenue. They could quarantine /r/guns and related, but they would alienate 350,000 plus accounts. They could ban T_D too, but there are millions of users there. As an aside, I think that is a federal honeypot for Russian agitprop research, but we won't know for years. >and that the arguments around ... any discussion of controls around weaponry defy all logic and reason. I didn't parse that.

r00fus 8y ago

There's also a corporate liability/PR question to ask yourself: how would you feel if some fringe pot group was publicized or mass murderer used a logo-branded weapon stock (that was sold and your company profited from) in an high profile event? Would you be ok with 24/7 news coverage of your brand being associated with that? If so, great, and work to allow it. If not, you should work to reduce your exposure. I'd say that can explain why MJ is ok where guns = not so much.