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Are you talking only about content that is potentially illegal? Or questionable in the general sense of being "wrong" in some way, even if legal? If the latter
by auganov 11y ago
Are you talking only about content that is potentially illegal? Or questionable in the general sense of being "wrong" in some way, even if legal? If the latter then I don't think there's a universal "right" way to handle it. Censorship can be a big value-add in many communities.
- c_prompt 11y agoOnly (potentially) illegality. For example, although it's not clear if voat received any formal legal notices or threats before they banned many communities, if they banned them based on their desires about what they want voat to be [1] or pressure from bad publicity/partner problems (e.g., frozen PayPal funds), that's their choice. But if they banned the communities because of valid legal threats, I don't think you can't accurately describe that as censorship. [1] Acknowledgment that their policies and goals may have changed since they became a refuge for disenchanted reddit users considering voat initially had a policy of no censorship