Why I am deeply alarmed by reddit censorship

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this is why free speech sites need to make it easy for the user to filter the content too. you need both. a good block button like on the fediverse, notabug.io's delegated moderation, whatever the solution is.

or a way to positively filter content, like saidit's "friends" feed feature.

[–]thebonkest 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You know what would be a viable solution? An algorithm that allows the user him or herself to filter out racist content from their feeds instead of the site censoring everybody.

I'm sure that would be abused somehow, but if it were made as like an add-on or a separate app the user could remove at any time, guaranteeing the truly unfettered nature of the site underneath, that would allow every faction to coexist on the same website in relative harmony by simply erasing the existence of the other from their view.