> conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation This is the worrisome part. Say that Joe posts, in con

> conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation This is the worrisome part. Say that Joe posts, in conversations where it's on topic, that one group of people are racially inferior. Now a bunch of people get on his case about it, flagging him all the time, downvoting his shit, and tracking where he posts his bullshit to counter everything he says with their own version of events, it sure seems like reddit isn't a "safe platform" to express his ideas. INSTANT EDIT Y'know, I convinced myself I'm wrong, but I'm going to post this comment anyway since it helped my change my own mind so maybe it will inform someone else. I think "safe platform" doesn't mean "welcoming platform." If Joe's specific ideas get downvoted and called out, okay. However, if people are tracking down and downvoting Joe when he posts about other things or tracking him to different places or to his Facebook or to his employer, that's where the line is crossed. Then it's not just "unwelcome," it's "unsafe." And the best part is that this works no matter what Joe was posting that got people's undies in a twist.