Do you Believe in Freedom of Speech
0 2015-08-06 by Kamikazikangar00
Reddit Overlords have been on a subreddit banning spree in the excuse that these "offensive" subreddits are "making the site worse" for everyone else. Funny enough I didn't even know about the vast majority of these "offensive" subreddits until I had heard they were banned. And Isn't the whole entire point of the subscription system reddit works off of so that a individual can pick and choose what they want to see on the site and what they would rather not see they can just NOT subscribe to? So off of that proposed logic that means the reddit overlords are banning subreddits because THEY simply define as "offensive" an that they on there sky scraping horses think are "worsen the site" for everyone else.
I'm an American and we Americans for the most part believe in the ideology of freedom of speech I imagine most of you already know that and I'd hazard a guess that quite a few of you see that as not that bad of a ideology to uphold, well that ideology is currently being explosively shat all over as if fired from a asshole attached to a disease ridden legless mentally retarded terroristic savage by the reddit Overlords from there sparkling pure space chairs.
So In classic American spirit lets throw a hissy fit and throw all there shit in the bay, in other words flood all other subreddits with angry bullshit or simply just don't buy gold for anyone or even visit the site for a while until our American Ideals on this multi-national service are reinstated.
26 comments
3 junkeee999 2015-08-06
TIL that alowing a company to run its privately owned website however they see fit is un-American.
3 Zeus250BC 2015-08-06
Really? So a privately owned business can run thier business as they see fit? Like, not bake gay wedding cakes because it violates their religious morality and sensibilities? Oh no. Only SJW bullshit is allowed to exclude based on private property rights. Everyone else must submit! Or be destroyed by Cultural Marxist tyranny.
2 junkeee999 2015-08-06
Businesses can't discriminate against protected classes of people. We decided a long time ago that you don't get to say who gets to sit at the lunch counter based solely on what they are.
Sorry if this offends your SJW bullshit radar.
3 I_Kick_Puppies_Hard 2015-08-06
I'm not arguing either side here, but homosexuals (unless it recently changed and I missed it) are not a protected class... NOT THAT THEY SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE, just that they are not.
0 junkeee999 2015-08-06
It varies from state to state. But the supreme court has made several rulings in recent years leaning that way, striking down bans on them being a protected class. Though that ruling alone doesn't make them a protected class.
2 Zeus250BC 2015-08-06
Yeah, protected class is a flawed social construct. It will be over turned. You can't make race a protected class when you continuously argue that race doesn't exist. Sexual orientation shouldn't be a protected class. Why is how you gratify sexual urges a protected class? The purpose of sex in Nature is to procreate, not gratification. But continue to argue that private property rights are only legitimate when the interest of the business is pc. People are waking up to this tyranny. Freedom of Speech is only for Marxist. Everyone else must comply or be silenced. Yeah, got.
1 The-Internets 2015-08-06
Are there any protections for masturbaters?
2 Zeus250BC 2015-08-06
It probably soon will be.
1 The-Internets 2015-08-06
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loled
1 holocauster-ride 2015-08-06
It's not un-American, but it will destroy their business.
1 junkeee999 2015-08-06
I disagree. I think so far anyway they've taken a very sensible approach to cleaning up the site. If this slippery slope that everyone is talking about materializes then I'll change my mind, but until then I'm not worried about it.
1 holocauster-ride 2015-08-06
See what happened to Digg.
1 junkeee999 2015-08-06
Digg always sucked from day one if you ask me.
1 holocauster-ride 2015-08-06
So does reddit. The only thing it has going for it was free speech.
-3 Kamikazikangar00 2015-08-06
TIL that people don't understand that a site that the people pay for (ex. reddit gold) should abide by what the people want.
3 junkeee999 2015-08-06
WTF? Nobody is forcing you you buy Reddit Gold. Reddit can do whatever they want and charge whatever they want for it. You in turn are welcome to use it or not.
-1 Kamikazikangar00 2015-08-06
When exactly did I say I was being forced to buy gold? And with that argument your perfectly fine if they ban subreddits that you frequent correct?
1 junkeee999 2015-08-06
You implied that because people pay for something on a website that gives them some say in how it's run, like that makes you a stockholder or something. It doesn't work that way.
As to whether I'm OK with banning subreddits I like, I guess if they banned enough of them that I was no longer entertained by Reddit, I'd go somewhere else. This isn't rocket science. It works the same with every website. If they interest me I frequent them. If they don't, I don't.
So far though, I like what they're doing..
2 Kamikazikangar00 2015-08-06
You only like what they are doing because it hasn't negatively affected you yet.
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1 SovereignMan 2015-08-06
Rule 1. Removed.
1 [deleted] 2015-08-06
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1 SovereignMan 2015-08-06
Oops. Thanks.
1 junkeee999 2015-08-06
Oh no's. Muh free speechez!
2 its_j3 2015-08-06
Yes.
However, another American ideal is property rights. We don't own this place, and whoever does has the right to set whatever rules they want, or kick us out if they want to, just like the restaurant on your street. We have the right to leave, even before they make us. We have the right to not support them monetarily. We don't have the right to vandalize the place because we don't like what they are doing with their own property.
1 kaalaaaa 2015-08-06
Yes, I do.
1 Spyder32286 2015-08-06
Sexual orientation is a protected class under federal law S909 just saying
2 Zeus250BC 2015-08-06
It probably soon will be.