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"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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 12 2015, @11:33PM
I can't speak for Chapman as I don't know much else about him, but John F. Kennedy was also a Harvard alumnus, as is Richard Stallman - he was a physics major.
it is quite common for one to join the bar in hopes of fighting injustice; for example a santa cruz, california attorney who focussed on pro bono work for the homeless was unable to pay his bar association dues, so a county judge paid them - anonymously. (I'm not real sure how we know it was a judge, but it was.)
a friend of my ex-wife's obtained a master's in biology then went on to law school and is now an environmental lawyer.
I myself, while not a lawyer have quite an interest in the law not so much because I get arrested so much but because Jack Batson, my high school history teacher - and later mayor of fairfield, california - taught us that the supreme court does not make advisory opinions. That is one cannot simply request that a law be struck down as unconstitutional, one has to violate it then defend oneself.
It is my most-fervent hope to do that myself someday. So far all I've accomplished is to get my charges dismissed a few times.
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