Reddit bans /r/fatpeoplehate, cracks down harassment subreddits

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Today, Reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate, a subreddit dedicated to hating fat people. Details. The Reddit community has labelled this as the beginning of the end of the site's community, seeking refuge to other sites.

What does GTPlanet think of this? Personally, I don't care about this stuff - I only receive alerts from it from /r/SubredditDrama. :indiff:
 
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Today, Reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate, a subreddit dedicated to hating fat people. Details. The Reddit community has labelled this as the beginning of the end of the site's community, seeking refuge to other sites.

What does GTPlanet think of this? Personally, I don't care about this stuff - I only receive alerts from it from /r/SubredditDrama. :indiff:
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So they are complaining that they cant act like children as they "must" hate fat people, people from other countries, ect.
It would be better off if they found refuge on another planet.
 
Bunch of manchildren whining that they can't hate fat people on a specific section of a specific site online anymore. Tons of yammering about free speech ignoring that Reddit is a private business and you do not have a right to use their servers to post about hating fat people. It just amazes me that a sub literally about hating fat people is the hill people are willing to die on.

People are unironically calling Ellen Pao, reddit's CEO, "chairman Pao". For banning a subreddit about hating fat people.
 
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I wonder if r/beatingwomen or whatever it's called is still there.
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That subreddit was banned... for vote brigading.

Related: There was a guy here on my Kaz AMA thread, asking people here to upvote his question on Reddit. That is actually prohibited, and I told him about it. ;)
 
It's wonderful how people champion a free internet but still misunderstand that website owners are free to, rightfully, control what content is allowed.
 
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It's wonderful how people champion a free internet but still misunderstand that website owners are free to, rightfully, control what content is allowed.
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Because people do not know that free speech has its limits. 💡
 
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Today, Reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate, a subreddit dedicated to hating fat people. Details. The Reddit community has labelled this as the beginning of the end of the site's community, seeking refuge to other sites.

What does GTPlanet think of this? Personally, I don't care about this stuff - I only receive alerts from it from /r/SubredditDrama. :indiff:
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They still have 4chan's /pol/.

That place is getting out of moderator's hands.
 
I'm more cross with Imgur selling out to advertisers than Reddit deleting undesirable sectors.
 
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What does GTPlanet think of this?
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I would genuinely struggle to find anything of less meaning or consequence to my existence.
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Personally, I don't care about this stuff - I only receive alerts from it from /r/SubredditDrama.
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If bringing the drama to a third party website is what you do when you don't care about something, I'd hate to see what you do when it's something that you do care about.
 
As a fat person, I find this offensive. :lol:

People flock to the internet (specifically Reddit) to express their hatred, and if the admins think it should be put away and wiped away, then let them do so.

There would be many reports of ass-kickings if the people in these hate threads would say the things that they say to someone in person. @Noob616 Manchilds is what they are exactly.

I would love to meet one of the people in the thread so I could... Take them out for a plate of 4000 calorie fried chicken and mashed potatoes with turtle cheese cake for dessert. What happens after that? Probably nothing. They'd probably act like a perfectly normal person.
 
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I have even considered disabling it for some youtube channels I like. Considered.
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I did have Adblock disabled for Youtube, but the ads were starting to get so obnoxious, useless, and worst of all unskippable that I was quick to re-enable it. Got no regrets, that's for sure.
 
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I did have Adblock disabled for Youtube, but the ads were starting to get so obnoxious, useless, and worst of all unskippable that I was quick to re-enable it. Got no regrets, that's for sure.
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This became oh-so-true in the lead-up to our marriage equality referendum.
 
Most of the criticism is for the arbitrary way they are choosing subreddits to ban, along with the fact that the former CEO said one of the principles of the site was free speech, which the new CEO has ditched.

There's talk of people jumping ship, but for most people I expect this doesn't effect their experience enough to leave. There are other sites which have sprung up to catch all the people demanding 100% free speech platforms, but I imagine most people will happily stay and watch funny cat videos.
 
I think it's quite funny how people are reacting to this. They banned the subs because they weren't sticking to their section and instead flooded other subs, as well as targeted specific people.

The problem comes from the fact that there are other subs that do the same thing, yet remain intact. SRS, or 🤬 reddit says actively engages in the same behavior, yet is still running, for whatever reason.

Then you have sexyabortions and cutefemalecorpses, or watchpeopledie, or even sexwithdogs. If you give a reason to ban something, you must stick with that reason and apply it unilaterally. Otherwise it has no meaning, and you just dig a deeper grave. SRS and Fatpeoplehate both harass other users, yet only one was banned.

It also raises another problem. Is it better to give people like this an outlet to voice their opinions, or prevent them from doing so and causing their hatred to boil into other subs? While the reasoning for the ban does state that they infact spilled into other subs, of which I've personally seen multiple times, banning the entire subreddit causes those 150,000 subscribed individuals to be misplaced, spreading all over the site to voice their opinions.

Being an a-hole is protected under free speech, just like calling someone out on being an a-hole is free speech as well. Harassment is not protected under free speech. This isn't a question of freedom of speech (One because reddit is a private establishment, two because harassment is not free speech, it's harassment) rather a question of if the mods are truly banning things for harassment, and not because of disagreement.

Still nothing is more funny than watching angry people rage and make dictator references because they can't hate fat people. Nothing is more sad than realizing that some of these people are "adults".
 
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Don't care about people hating fat people. Don't care about them doing it on Reddit. Don't care about them not being able to do so any more.

Gotta agree that Reddit should get its act together and decide on what to ban and act accordingly.
 

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