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Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him

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668 points wildmusings | 1 comments | 24 Nov 16 00:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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tw04 ◴[24 Nov 16 04:01 UTC] No.13027952[source]▶
I will once again point out the irony of r/The_Donald members constantly complaining about SJWs being up in arms over their racist, sexist, homophobic rants. Yet the second something like this drops, it's the end of the world. Reddit as a whole is going to crumble because the CEO got sick of their childish antics.
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gamechangr ◴[24 Nov 16 04:39 UTC] No.13028151[source]▶
That's two totally different concepts.

It's one thing to "complaining about",,, generalizations. It's entirely different for a CEO to abuse his power and censor those he disagrees with on a social media site.

He should be let go for this! He is literally putting words in peoples mouths!!

It calls into question the credibility of the whole site.

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giarc ◴[24 Nov 16 04:59 UTC] No.13028239[source]▶
And yet Donald Trump is blocking his press core [0], calling for an end to SNL because they made fun of him [1], telling CNN execs that they are all liars [2], revoking credentials of the Washington Post [3] among many others [4]. Sure, the reddit CEO doing it is bad... the president elect though...

0. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election...

1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78761255265415577...

2. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/22/13714052/d...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-revokes...

4. http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/14/media/donald-trump-media-bla...

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gamechangr ◴[24 Nov 16 05:04 UTC] No.13028261[source]▶
Yeah - but imagine that Paul Graham w HN for example disagreed with your position.

Let's say that instead of allowing you to express this last comment - he used his admin privileges and made your comment PRO trump.

Do you see the difference? Having a strong opposing - even annoying - demanding - opinion is not the same as impersonating others and censoring their words.

HUGE HUGE DIFFERENCE

Does that make sense?

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vehementi ◴[24 Nov 16 07:25 UTC] No.13028821[source]▶
No, let's instead say that you and all your pals were spamming "fuck pg" in a "pg is a pedo" thread you made, and he changed your comments to instead say "fuck gamechangr". That would be pretty funny. And also a HUGE HUGE DIFFERENCE from "changing your political messaging to be for what it was supposed to be against".
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1. jpgvm ◴[24 Nov 16 09:47 UTC] No.13029368[source]▶
This is what I think is being lost on people.

People are getting too tied up in what this "potential power" and "loss of integrity" means.

In reality is it means nothing. There never has been and never should be a guarantee or even an assumption of integrity of comments posted on the internet unless they are cryptographically signed.

He trolled some trolls for the lulz. It was a bad idea, hopefully he just drops the banhammer on all of them next time. Hell, ban the entire subreddit while you are at it for excessive harassment and be done with it.