It's less like burning books and more like urban renewal. People don't consider reddit threads to be stores of historical knowledge; they're street-corners wher

It's less like burning books and more like urban renewal. People don't consider reddit threads to be stores of historical knowledge; they're street-corners where people mingle. If those people are mingling to do illegal things or form hate mobs, the town is under no obligation to keep the street corner available to them. ... which, actually, may draw an interesting parallel between book burning and gentrification. Perhaps a topic for another day. ;)