"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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:40PM
> ask for evidence
> receive crapflood
> disregard crapflood
FTFY
I spent 5 minutes trying to parse through those links looking for clearly articulated proof before I gave up. I think that's more than fair.
If someone asks for a soda and you hand them a bag of syrup and spray them with a firehose, they don't owe you anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:56PM
http://i.imgur.com/VRLD4sT.png [imgur.com]
There's something, and it's only one link. If you want to bury your head in the sand then go right ahead, but at least admit it if you do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @08:26PM
What is that suppossed to mean?
How does that prove she is a liar?
Since you failed to explain it, I had to spend at least 15 minutes googling trying to figure that shit out, what I think I see is Wu parodying the people with a hate-on for her. Asking if she "is a terrible person" is such dorky wording it is funny. Even one of the comments - left out of the screen shot you linked to [archive.is] - recognized it as a joke. If her laughing at gg'ers qualifies as duplicitious then all I'm left with is confirmation that gg'ers are thin-skinned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @08:09PM