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Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship
submitted 3 years ago * by Jizera from self.MeanwhileOnReddit
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[–]Fictionsaur 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (5 children)
It's bad reddit didn't have any significant competition as a primarily anon website for debate. If other communities like saidit appeared earlier, there would be a more equal distribution of users among these communities and so when reddit go down the path of censorship we could just migrate there. Instead, because of the monopoly, reddit will always come up as the first option for people looking for an anon website.
It's a private company. We can only try to bring as much users to join alternative communities enough for them to compete against reddit even though it will take a long time to happen.
[–]bagano1 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (4 children)
Overmoderation needs to be a thing of the past. Mods actually need to be punished for banning people for disagreeing with them, fighting with other users or punishing people for social criticism. I don't support racial supremacy of any kind. However, if you want to call people out for bad behavior, I think that should be allowed as long as you can provide some sort of evidence. I think suppressing it, or worse, as we've seen with African-Americans that is becoming a serious problem, siding with them every time something happens is just a bad road to take. Minorities are NOT always right! There are some dumb liberals out there trying to push that and I draw the line at that!
But back to my point, yeah, unless you are disrupting a board by spamming it or being an idiot, you should not be banned. Period. I've actually done some moderating. It's really not hard. Some sites are exemplary. Others don't seem to understand that overmoderation just makes people frustrated and drives great posters away.
[–]Fiyanggu 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
You're absolutely right, but how did we get here from the good old days when people would think for themselves? I blame the whole butthurt Millenial safespace culture. Somehow we have to cater to the lowest common denominator of butthurt and that keeps people from raising an alternative opinion for fear of offending someone.
[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
In terms of the internet specifically, I think part of it is that the barrier to access for things like internet forums has become so low that there's literally lots of 8 year olds talking on the forums, whereas 20 years ago, most people online were at least highschool or older and it was a little hard to figure out so you had to be somewhat smart and capable to get there in the first place. Whereas now they can give a baby a phone with a reddit app installed and they can post. The internet used to be filled with geeks, because those were the only people who cared enough to figure it out. Now it's so ubiquitous you can sneeze and accidentally post on the internet
[–]oneinchterror 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Cheap smartphones and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
There have been a lot of benefits to it as well. Just like every other tool, humanity is going to have to learn how to use it correctly and in a beneficial way. Right now we're all toddlers with cellphones, mesmerized by the shiny apps. Some day we will grow up and use it like the tool it is, but we're going to have to make the missteps first to learn what not to do
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