Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is a big jump from “we are a private company and we have internal rules” to “we are a private company and our internal rules that directly go against human rights”

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  • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Based on what I read in the posted article, everyone is making a big leap here. Of course I expect you all to be right in the end based on Reddit being a shitshow, but we don’t know what the content they are referring to is exactly.

    For all we know, they are only referring to stuff like human trafficking or child porn. The statement is vague.

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• Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a strange opinion, but here goes: The Right to Free Speech (Im in the US here), should protect you from censorship. Doing what Reddit is doing should be considered a Rights violation and we should be able to sue them into the ground.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Terrible idea. Any site that bans for hate speech would also be a rights violation. If a platform doesn’t share your values, leave it.

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    • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, sadly, freedom of speech includes freedom of hate speech. The platform would have to rely on its users downvoting or ridiculing the offender rather than outright bans.

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        See Twitter to see what “free speech absolutism” gets you. The hateful stuff will quickly overrun and take over the platform, chasing decent people away.

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  • shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, you are certainly entitled to that opinion even though it’s wrong, and I do think banning you for it is also wrong.

    There’s a big difference between having ideas and taking actions. Ideas cannot be allowed to become illegal. Even disgusting ones.

    The correct response to unconscionable ideas is social, not institutional.

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    • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is the point I was making about Twitter, and it applies to Reddit as well. You have to stop that radicalization socially, they need their hands slapped to know that they are wrong. Twitter and Reddit dont just let MAGA go crazy, they give them a safe space to do it in. They block us normal people from telling them they are being crazy. He’ll, Reddit let’s them throw people out if they don’t have Conservative flair (like a checkmark).

      The institutions are preventing proper social responses to these hateful people.

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