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posted by janrinok on Friday June 12 2015, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-will-not-ban,-much dept.

The Washington Post:

"We will not ban questionable subreddits," Reddit's then-CEO, Yishan Wong, wrote mere months ago. "You choose what to post. You choose what to read. You choose what kind of subreddit to create."

But in an apparent reversal of that policy, and in an unprecedented effort to clean up its long-suffering image, Reddit has just banned five "questionable subreddits."

The site permanently removed the forums Wednesday afternoon for harassing specific, named individuals, a spokesperson said. Of the five, two were dedicated to fat-shaming, one to transphobia, one to racism and one to harassing members of a progressive video game site.

Unsurprisingly, a vocal contingent of Redditors aren't taking the changes well: "Reddit increases censorship," read one post on r/freespeech, while forums like r/mensrights and r/opieandanthony theorized they would be next.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:54AM (#195349)

    (evolution, gun control, affirmative action, gay marriage, gnu vs. gnu/linux, system d,etc)

    Evolution is about what happend. That's a question that can be settled through science. And it has been settled through science, by mounting heaps of evidence for it. The only thing that could legitimately re-open the debate is new evidence that doesn't fit evolution.

    All other topics in your list (with the possible exception of "affirmative action"; I have no idea what you mean with that) are about what should happen. That is, a question that cannot ever be decided purely through science; science can help in making the decision, but there's no way this can be decided by science. Therefore those questions can ultimately only be settled by agreement.

    In short: Evolution does not belong on your list.