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"you know it when you see it" This is exactly what officials said when they were banning porn due to it being "offensive". The problem I have is that many com
by paulhauggis 11y ago
"you know it when you see it"
This is exactly what officials said when they were banning porn due to it being "offensive".
The problem I have is that many communities use this to stifle free speech and push a narrative rather than actually help the community.
For example, if I say I dislike gay marriage in a discussion, will this be considered 'offensive'? How about if I say I don't like Christians?
I will be waiting to see which types of speech they deem offensive and which types they don't.
The real reason they are doing this is because advertisers won't go near it.
- davidgerard 11y ago>For example, if I say I dislike gay marriage in a discussion, will this be considered 'offensive'? How about if I say I don't like Christians? Because that's totally comparable to /r/coontown, which is what we're actually talking about here. I note spez's change of tune over the years: https://np.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6m87a/can_we_ban_this_extremely_racist_asshole/c0497kd https://np.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6m87a/can_we_ban... It's almost as if the "free speech means no moderation" ideology was only developed as an excuse to justify not spending money and effort on developing usable moderation tools!