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Reddit's strategy is to shift blame to the moderators of the subreddit in question. This is really their biggest innovation, delegating the burden of moderation
by manfredo 6y ago
Reddit's strategy is to shift blame to the moderators of the subreddit in question. This is really their biggest innovation, delegating the burden of moderation to the users. Then the Reddit administrators effectively need to manage a much narrower set of users. They don't need to manage the hundreds of thousands of users in /r/news, just the few active moderators.
If the NYT or another big outlet publishes a hit pieces, Reddit will just ban or quarantine that particular subreddit. We already saw this play out with The_Donald and a few other subreddits (one on hating fat people, and one with a derogatory slur based on racoons come to mind).
- bilbo0s 6y agoIn the case of criminal liability, that won't work. That's almost the first lesson you learn as a first year back in law school. You can't contract away criminal liability. If there were child porn found on a sub-reddit for instance, the executives are liable. So you have to work overtime to make sure that stuff isn't on your servers. Or if it is, that you are reporting it in a timely fashion. A situation where a video with 10 views that was on your server for 1 day before you reported to law enforcement will be looked at very differently than dozens of videos, with thousands of views, that were all on your site for an average of 3 months before being reported to law enforcement.
- manfredo 6y agoNo, this is why section 230 exists. Sites are not liable for user generated content. Nobody would ever, ever risk of assuming liability for all of the of millions or even billions of users on a web platform.