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Well, voat was a community founded and populated by all the people banned or unwelcome by mainstream platforms. I don’t think it follows that Reddit would becom
by sgillen 6y ago
Well, voat was a community founded and populated by all the people banned or unwelcome by mainstream platforms. I don’t think it follows that Reddit would become as bad a voat if it was “all free speech all the time”.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI think the bigger issue is that somebody has to pay the bills. Very few are willing to pay to host those sorts of extremists views.
- rchaud 6y ago> I don’t think it follows that Reddit would become as bad a voat if it was “all free speech all the time”. Do you remember r/uncensored_news, a sub that sprang up in the wake of the Miami Pulse nightclub shooting? Apparently its raison d'etre was to show people "the truth" because r/news moderators were not approving the numerous news posts about it fast enough. Unsurprsingly, that was considered censorship. It took all of 3 months for that sub to become filled with racist and bigoted misinformation. Reddit's admin policy is very generous. On numerous occasions, they have allowed hate speech communities to grow, right up until the inevitable calls to violence occur. At which point Reddit kills the sub and pretends it never existed.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoBut the same issue applies for that sub. Because the mainstream place pushed them out, all the deplorables end up on the next best alternative.