One of my favorite things about Reddit was the ability to find people actually expressing opinions that are anathema in the mainstream media, like "women can al

One of my favorite things about Reddit was the ability to find people actually expressing opinions that are anathema in the mainstream media, like "women can also be bad sometimes". I feel heavily oppressed by the people in this thread saying I'm not allowed to read or talk about those things except in the equivalent of a "free speech zone". I think the comparison to a law forcing the homeless out of your neighborhood is apt. It works, but you must recognize that you are using power to harm people you don't like, not just improving the world for everyone. Like police power, it sometimes does improve the world for everyone and sometimes it grows to do more harm than good. In this case the result is good, but the fact that everyone just thinks "I like the result so censorship powers are good" is a step down a slippery slope.