both those subs were regularly breaking the site's rules, other smaller ones like these get banned all the time they only survived so long thanks to reddit being afraid to act, same for LSC
worth asking yourself "am i on the side burning books right now" https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subreddits-the-donald-chapo-trap-house-new-content-policy-rules …
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"regularly breaking the site's rules" is a kind of absurd criticism given the rules have actively changed while these subreddits existed.
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Theyre not. Look at the list of books burned then look at that filth
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One mans trash is another mans treasure.
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I give reddit a lot of shit for various things, but both of subs actively encouraged TOS violations and had been flaunting the rules for years. I’m glad reddit enforces its (few) rules. I don’t see how this comparison applys here, especially since the admins warned themat they’d
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Are you implying that you think this action is on the side of burning books? Or just that one should keep that in mind when taking actions like this? Genuine question (I don't work on policy at reddit so I have no insight into these actions)
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i think social media's aggressive political censorship is actually worse than book burning, which was gross but mostly just symbolic, and the tech industry's rapidly-vanishing liberalism is extremely dangerous. all of us should be pushing back.
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i'm not making a legal argument here, i'm making a moral argument
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