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Please influence the board to stop caving into censorship and let Reddit return to its free thinking roots. As ever expansive “hate speech” policies take root,

Please influence the board to stop caving into censorship and let Reddit return to its free thinking roots. As ever expansive “hate speech” policies take root, the website is being co-opted to reflect just one worldview - that of the progressive left. This is dangerous and unwelcoming.

piva00 6y ago
It would be great if conservative and progressive right wing could help to not let those communities devolve into prejudice, racism and eugenics. It is a problem when an ideology attracts the worst in human kind, as much as I hate the authoritarian left.
- jl2718 6y ago
  It’s crazy how people still don’t understand how the internet works differently than meatspace. If an extreme right position eliminates the platform for a moderate conservative, those positions are going to be taken by their enemies, not their allies. The same tactic doesn’t work in the opposite direction because nothing on the left is out of bounds. Because of this double-standard at the extremes, it’s impossible for a moderated Internet forum not to slide ‘left’, and it’s impossible for an unmoderated forum to not slide ‘right’. Given so much internet and so little real-world interaction, I think we’ve completely lost touch with what ‘regular’ people actually think.
- SkyBelow 6y ago
  This is assuming it actually attracts those views instead of attracting false flags of those views. One subreddit I've seen which seems to allow decent political discussion regardless of side has come under attack because they don't censor certain positions. The attacks are done by very blatant new accounts spamming extremely offensive content in an attempt to get the sub flagged. I've had the displeasure of encountering such posts on multiple occasions before mods were able to remove them. It would not be difficult for those posting such content to determine what is the most offensive thing that won't be removed and then focus on posting that content until either mods have to start censoring it or the subreddit becomes overran with that specific content. In the former case they just repeat until they are happy with the new standards on what are allowed. In the latter case the reputation changes and begins to attract people who are primarily interested in the flooding content, effectively ending the sub as being a place of open discussion. The mods are handling it for now, but that is likely to only be for as long as the flood of the targeted attack doesn't overwhelm them.

piva00 6y ago

It would be great if conservative and progressive right wing could help to not let those communities devolve into prejudice, racism and eugenics. It is a problem when an ideology attracts the worst in human kind, as much as I hate the authoritarian left.

jl2718 6y ago
It’s crazy how people still don’t understand how the internet works differently than meatspace. If an extreme right position eliminates the platform for a moderate conservative, those positions are going to be taken by their enemies, not their allies. The same tactic doesn’t work in the opposite direction because nothing on the left is out of bounds. Because of this double-standard at the extremes, it’s impossible for a moderated Internet forum not to slide ‘left’, and it’s impossible for an unmoderated forum to not slide ‘right’. Given so much internet and so little real-world interaction, I think we’ve completely lost touch with what ‘regular’ people actually think.
SkyBelow 6y ago
This is assuming it actually attracts those views instead of attracting false flags of those views. One subreddit I've seen which seems to allow decent political discussion regardless of side has come under attack because they don't censor certain positions. The attacks are done by very blatant new accounts spamming extremely offensive content in an attempt to get the sub flagged. I've had the displeasure of encountering such posts on multiple occasions before mods were able to remove them. It would not be difficult for those posting such content to determine what is the most offensive thing that won't be removed and then focus on posting that content until either mods have to start censoring it or the subreddit becomes overran with that specific content. In the former case they just repeat until they are happy with the new standards on what are allowed. In the latter case the reputation changes and begins to attract people who are primarily interested in the flooding content, effectively ending the sub as being a place of open discussion. The mods are handling it for now, but that is likely to only be for as long as the flood of the targeted attack doesn't overwhelm them.