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Well, can you blame them for developing a habit of censorship when the laissez-faire approach gave them a huge problem with kiddie-porn trading, extreme racism,
by Pxtl 8y ago
Well, can you blame them for developing a habit of censorship when the laissez-faire approach gave them a huge problem with kiddie-porn trading, extreme racism, destructive conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism, misogyny, pro-rape communities, etc?
They tried the hands-off approach and it failed spectacularly. The site spent its boom years with basically negligible community-management while it spent its efforts doing damage-control on its overwhelmed servers.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoIf the hands-off approach coincides with the site's "boom years", then an alternative view is that it was, in fact, a huge benefit.
- hopler 8y agoThe more work I do, the more trash I generate. That doesn't make the trash the reason for my success, and doesn't earn the trash an honored central place at my table.
- a1369209993 8y agoBut it does mean that banning people for generating trash is a fucking terrible idea. If you aren't willing to bear the drawbacks of free speech then you aren't going to get the benefits of it either. Unfortunately, civil rights, like more concrete infrastructure, are a investment you can pillage in the short term and not see the consequences until later.
- perl4ever 8y agoI think it's typical that the majority of a given public nuisance is created by a small segment of the people who contribute to the problem overall. So it seems logical to target that subset. Everybody generates trash, but not everybody contributes equally to illegal dumping and littering.
- humanrebar 8y agoWhy come down on Reddit and not the law enforcement agencies responsible for policing kiddie porn, etc.?