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Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest

posted by takyon on Friday July 03 2015, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-defense-league dept.

David Eccles (gringer) writes:

Victoria Taylor, the human interface between many celebrities and the Reddit "Ask Me Anything" subreddit, was today unexpectedly let go from her position with Reddit. The nature of the dismissal is unclear, including whether or not it was initiated by Victoria herself. As a result of this action, a large number of popular and/or default subreddits have gone private, or have disabled story submissions.

See here for more updates:

TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly - being uncommunicative, and disregarding the thousands of moderators who keep the site running. In addition, /r/listentothis has disabled all submissions, and so has /r/picsand /r/Jokes has announced its support (but has not gone private). Major subreddits, including /r/4chan, /r/circlejerk and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, have also expressed solidarity through going private.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @02:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @02:40PM (#204721)

    (a dog whistle term for ultra-leftist authoritarians meaning politically-correct censorship)

    What does "politically-correct" mean? Seriously, what does it mean? I see it used all the time but everyone who uses it refuses to define it, leaving me to infer the definition based on usage, and the only way its used is as just another meaningless name-calling attack phrase used to label, appeal to fear, demonize the enemy, and scapegoat.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NickFortune on Friday July 03 2015, @03:05PM

    by NickFortune (3267) on Friday July 03 2015, @03:05PM (#204735)

    What does "politically-correct" mean? Seriously, what does it mean?

    Currently, Wikipedia says

    Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct, commonly abbreviated to PC) is a pejorative[1][2][3][4][5] term used to criticize language, actions, or policies seen as being excessively calculated to not offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society

    Which, as a definition, sounds about right to me.

    (My wife tells me she is "vertically challenged". I say she's just "differently tall". I get my nose pulled.)

    • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:09AM

      by dry (223) on Saturday July 04 2015, @05:09AM (#204933) Journal

      Don't forget about not offending business. Here in Canada the government has really attacked anyone using the term "tar sands" to refer to the bitumen containing sand that eventually yields synthetic oil. Gotta call it "oil sands" even if it is more alike the asphalt that you drive on, and when heated is very tarry.
      There are lots of cases of businesses pushing terminology that is not as descriptive but more "friendly and correct"