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Reddit banned /r/TheDonald, which would have certainly run afoul of this law. You may respond that there were policy based reasons for doing so (brigading, hara
by asdfasgasdgasdg 4y ago
Reddit banned /r/TheDonald, which would have certainly run afoul of this law. You may respond that there were policy based reasons for doing so (brigading, harassment, etc.) and you'd be right. But that's true of moderation decisions made by Facebook and Twitter too, or at least they would say so. In fact that ban was far more egregious than any of the moderation decisions that are being targeted by this law at the big platforms.
- richbell 4y agoPrior to banning /r/The_Donald, Reddit created /r/popular as a default alternative to /r/all to prevent posts from /r/The_Donald from making it to the front page. Interestingly, they didn't ban any of the other obnoxious political subreddits that people were complaining about. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5u9pl5/introducing_rpopular/ddtkylq https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5u9pl5/intro... (Not a Trump fan or even right-leaning, just pointing out that Reddit administrators went to great lengths to suppress a subreddit they disliked long before banning it.)
- asdfasgasdgasdg 4y agoYeah I mean I think it is and should be within their rights. /r/TheDonald was not merely expressing a political viewpoint. It was doing a lot of other stuff. But the proponents of this law would view banning it was a violation.
- starik36 4y ago> reasons for doing so (brigading, harassment, etc.) This happens on Reddit all day along with pretty much every political sub on the platform. But they chose to only ban /r/TheDonald. Reddit had a policy for banning accounts that were calling for violence. Yet during the 2020 riots they conveniently dropped this rule. This smells of massive hipocracy.