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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 1 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.298s | source
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seydor[dead post] ◴[22 Jun 23 17:31 UTC] No.36435734[source]▶
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:33 UTC] No.36435763[source]▶
> And they should reign in the moderators, their abuses have angered way too many users.

Moderators are always going to be hated by some segment unfortunately.

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babypuncher ◴[22 Jun 23 17:39 UTC] No.36435840[source]▶
There will always be people who just want to show up in a space and act like an asshole, then cry "censorship" when they are asked to leave.

I kind of want moderators on Reddit to stop moderating just to show how quickly it would kill the platform. Popular subreddits would be overrun with bots and hate speech within a week. Then the real user exodus would begin, meanwhile Reddit has to try and convince their remaining advertisers that bots and racists are worth advertising to.

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RoyGBivCap ◴[22 Jun 23 18:17 UTC] No.36436452[source]▶
>There will always be people who just want to show up in a space and act like an asshole, then cry "censorship" when they are asked to leave.

Who is an asshole is an opinion. And no one likes being censored. One man's hate speech is another man's basic truism. It's why there is no federal law in America against "hate speech" because there's no objective way to classify it. Your disdain for people who disagree with you says nothing about them and a great deal about you.

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1. bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 18:25 UTC] No.36436566[source]▶
I don't have much faith that there are people who value true "free speech" these days. I think the term "free speech" is just a rallying cry to allow what I want to say and prevent others from saying things that contradict my views.

Elon "free speech" Musk recently announced that "cis" is a slur on Twitter but that "deadnaming" trans people isn't, but this is very much an opinion derived from a specific world view and now he is imposing that across the board. Okay, sure, that is his right, he owns the place. But please drop the "free speech" talk when really you just want to elevate your preferred viewpoint over alternatives.