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It appears that ianstallings means "Reddit is using its own, personal, free speech to say 'no' to things".

• lutusp 13y ago
  Okay, I think that's a fair interpretation, and there's some truth to it. Moderators are also voices and also have speech rights. This particular moderator contacted me privately and threatened me with banning if I kept dissenting from a certain popular view. The fact that it was a private communication made it more of a gangster tactic than free speech.
  • aroch 13y ago
    Doesn't matter, that mod is expressing his speech not the speech of Reddit Inc. That mod is entitled to be a douchebag if they want to be.
    • lutusp 13y ago
      > Doesn't matter, that mod is expressing his speech not the speech of Reddit Inc. Because Reddit sometimes expels moderators and subReddits it doesn't approve of, this implies that it either approves of, or tolerates, the rest. They're not under any legal obligations to monitor content, but they do, and they sometimes act in their own interest. Not to make too much out of this. Reddit has the right to run their business any way they please and that their stockholders will tolerate. My point is that it's a business, not a soapbox.