Found this site from certain subs criticizing what Reddit has become. I don't like hate speech but I also don't like people censoring speech because it's contradictory to progress on giving people rights. Thanks for creating Saidit!

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[–][deleted] 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Reddit has gotten really bad with the censorship lately! This site seems to have saner people than voat.

[–]NerfThis[S] 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

That's the problem with a lot of free speech friendly sites - they get hijacked by the crazies with the owners taking the position that any action on bigotry would put them on the lines with the censorship happy places like Reddit. I wish people would realize that there's a line between removing what's needed and just removing everything that doesn't fit your viewpoint.

People don't like oppressive censorship and it's just funny that others seem to think otherwise.

[–]triguntester 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This why Voat died IMO. The first people to use the site were actually interested in free speech and talking about opposing viewpoints, but as reddit banned more and more right wing subs the new users simply wanted a right-wing version of reddit.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

And also the tools of voat reinforced the existing echo-chamber, they had brigades to 'protect voat' that would downvote/censor opposing views, and you weren't allowed to downvote them back until you got 100 upvotes, which never happened because you were always being brigaded. So the most extreme and dedicated people took over the culture and were able to box out other cultures on the site