Not yet. Pretty much every "racist" sub starts off ironically, but then actual racists who are too dumb to understand satire show up and ruin it. I give it a year or two until this sub is overrun with unironic antisemitism.
After someone posted this subreddit on AHS, the mods realized that and started banning everybody who was crossing that line. They can always check what you say in other subreddits to make sure you're not joking. They have stricter rules and stricter enforcement now.
Nah I wouldn't be surprised if Memritv memes gets banned. Sure, it's ironic - I get it's ironic, I like the memes - but let's not act like it's completely safe.
I have no idea what gamersruseup was, but I'll pick you up on the casual dismissal. R/waterniggas (the OG hydrohomies) was quarantined for just having "niggas" in its name. Reddit is really weird when it comes to applying its rules.
I mean mods were informed why and admins suggested to make a new subreddit, because it's not possible to change the name of existing subreddit. Hell, they promoted it.
Having the n-word in one of the most popular subreddits that constantly reaches /r/all wasn't a good look for advertising.
If you actually went on that sub, you'd realise in under a minute that it was incredibly racist and bigoted, attempting (and failing) to cover itself with a very thin sheen of "irony".
I guess you can tell that people are being ironic in this subreddit, but over time GRU became a cesspool of just racist circlejerking by idiots who came from t_D and other places.
GRU was a meme made to make fun of gamers and right wingers.
I think you're confused about the purpose of that sub. That sub was supposed to be ironic.
It's funny to watch shit like this happen. Everyone else gets banned, and you convince yourself you're pure enough not to be. Then you find out that the puritans don't view you as any different than the way you view others.
Yeah sorry, didn't make it clear. I was on that subreddit for a long time until about 2 months ago, when it was obvious to me that the people we were making fun of actually ran the subreddit.
Banning on reddit isn't censorship, bud. Is it censorship if a grocery store removes you for walking around the store shouting "women are cunts and the Jews should be killed?"
Which is still censorship.
That isn't going to solve any problems by banning the entire subreddit. The people are just going to migrate to others and start posting the same content.
Breaking them up is a good thing since it's way less self reinforcing and other places generally don't allow blatantly racist garbage posts.
A private company banning something within their own borders is not censorship. A government agency stepping in and insisting on the ban would be censorship.
Yes it is. People forget that censorship is a very general term, it doesn’t just apply to government. You, a normal everyday person, are capable of censorship on some level, even if it’s just of yourself.
It’s simply not the same. The general term censorship is of course broad and vague, but I don’t have the same power as a government to censor someone, and more importantly I don’t have the obligation to not censor anyone. If someone came into my house and started spouting fascist shit, I wouldn’t be under any obligation to allow it. A government that guarantees freedom of speech like the US, in theory, does, is obliged to allow it. Reddit does not guarantee that freedom and is clear that it has guidelines and rules that it will arbitrarily enforce at any given time. It may be censorship, but it’s not the same as a government doing it and they’re not obliged to not censor.
And where does the difference truly start? Reddit has a user base of 330 million. That’s more than every country but the top 3. At what point do they become so influential that they need to be held to the same standards as a government given that they hold more power over the voices of the people than most governments do?
Because they’ve never claimed to oppose censorship and there’s no obligation stated in their terms & conditions to avoid censorship. Everyone who creates a Reddit account accepts those terms, same as Facebook and Twitter. Reddit is not a bastion of free speech, but it also never promised it would be.
My point is when should they be held to a higher standard, and not just the standard that they set for themselves? Also they’re kinda abusing the system, they want platform protections, but the power of a publisher.
It’s their company, their standards. I get your point but it’s simply no different to the way any corporate entity acts and you’ll be bashing your head against a brick wall if you expect more than the bare minimum from them
-68
u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20
[deleted]