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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: 3, Insightful) by cykros on Saturday June 13 2015, @03:27AM
I think the big thing with systemd is that those of us that decided it was problematic enough have resolved to use open systems that don't use it (Slackware, Gentoo, the BSD's, etc). The rest either don't care, and use whatever most popular/supported distro they're going to use, or outright LIKE systemd (while it may seem strange, I can kind of relate, being someone who voluntarily uses pulseaudio on Slackware due to some of its functionality actually making my system do what I want it to...#slackware on freenode will NEVER let me hear the end of it if it gets brought up though). The rest at this point is generally just repeating what has already been said in countless other situations, and yes, it gets tiresome. Moreover, it derails other conversations that all parties involved actually are able to find middle ground on into a realm of shouting matches.
That isn't to say it should never be a topic that gets discussion, just that the time and place for those discussions are no longer in the big general forums, but rather, with those who have not yet become aware of the debate in the first place, or those who are just now realizing the issues that are resulting from having systemd. You can yell at the masses all you like, and then complain when they turn their backs and walk away (or outright find some way to silence you), but change comes in the trickle of individuals having thoughtful conversations, one on one, and making decisions.
As for places like Soylentnews though, it's worth noting that the choir sometimes gets sick of being preached to. In my experience, there aren't many systemd apologists around here...just those who hated it enough to do something about it for themselves, and those who decided that despite it being abhorrent, the cost of changing things outweighed the benefits, and it's just one more obnoxious part of dealing with modern tech (to throw onto the pile). That isn't to say that novel systems that make avoiding its use won't be welcome, but that merely talking a lot about how nice they'd be will get treated as the empty words and actionless complaining it amounts to. At the end of the day, systemd, sysvinit, bsd init, and the various derivatives are all FOSS, and if you really want to do something about anyone, the source code is in your hands to do something with. Don't be surprised when choosing to complain about it rather than do something about it draws eyerolls instead of applause.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @10:03AM
That, sir or madam, was a very thoughtful post.
I salute you!