Admins finally answer some questions about reddit moderation policy. The answers are... not great. The infection is spreading.
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I posted in the history forum last year on reddit “The English were better fighters than anyone else and extremely well organized” and I got banned. 🤷♂️
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Good time to remind everyone of how they initially worded the rule change:
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Reddit has now changed the wording of their new hate speech policy that had explicitly permitted hate directed at "majority" groups.
I don't find this very reassuring; the mask already slipped.
Previous wording on the left.
New wording on the right.
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Evil is never intended as evil. Indeed, the contradiction inherent in all evil is that it originates in the desire to eliminate evil.
(thread of quotes of wisdom from James Carse)
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I deleted my reddit account last week
Nothing but sneer clubs and chinese propaganda survives on that site
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"Third party civil and social justice organizations." By definition anyone who consults with major corporations on speech moderation must have a far more restrictive outlook on speech or else they have nothing to sell. You can't get paid $50k and then say "just use common sense."
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