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Frankly, i'm exactly on the other side with this issue. I'm appalled and, if not scared, at least apprehensive, that Reddit throws freedom of speech under the b
by LinXitoW 14y ago
Frankly, i'm exactly on the other side with this issue. I'm appalled and, if not scared, at least apprehensive, that Reddit throws freedom of speech under the bus at the sight of trouble. I understand that, from a business point of view, it's the logical thing to do, but i find it morally problematic.
To quote Noam Chomsky:
> Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely for views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech.
- neilk 14y agoI don't quite agree with your analogy. If Reddit closed down /r/trees, that would be censorship of people with non-mainstream opinions. There is no narrowing of discourse in society if creepshots gets shut down. There are free speech issues at play here, but I think they have more to do with balancing people's need for privacy versus the right of people to make and share media of things that happen in public. (That said, a lot of images in those communities are just stolen from other people's Facebook streams anyway, so it's also an issue of privacy.)