Going back to the platform thing for a second. Feel free to correct me, but I don't remember seeing a right of platform. Street corners seemed to work for the wackos in my neighborhood. Also, I don't entrepreneurs seeing anything about that people have to listen. If you've got a shitty message and crappy presentation, then you're free to shoot to the heavens as people walk by. If anyone stops to laugh, then the rights that let you stand on the street corner spouting your particular brand of nonsense allows them to laugh at you. A private company, server, whatever the hell Reddit is, has no obligation to provide you a platform. And most businesses are not government. They're businesses. Citizens United aside, businesses exist solely to turn a profit. They make a product or provide a service and sell that. If having a blatantly racist subwhatever is going to hurt those profits, they're well within their rights to stop that. You'll have to show something more to convince me there's a freedom of speech issue here.
Because Reddit was intended as a bastion of free speech. The fact you're a private entity doesn't matter if you're advertising yourself as an open forum for public discussions. If that's the case, it's your moral duty to facilitate that open discussion by protecting even speech you find detestable.
Um... well... therein lies the problem, UP. I won't do a quote breakdown, because it's a monumental pain in the ass. Instead, I'll just dissect it here and now.
Reddit as a 'bastion of free speech'? Funny, they've never said that. Ever.
Private entity that doesn't matter if advertising as an open forum for public discussion? um. Yes. Yes it does. They're a
PRIVATE COMPANY, they have the right. Also, if that logic holds true, we should have to deal with every fucking troll and asshole that comes around here on FQA, rather than banhammering them like they deserve. Have fun with that.
Moral duty? ... Moral.
Fucking. Duty. You SANCTIMONIOUS piece of shit! The fuck are you pulling THAT out of? they're an ONLINE COMMUNITY, no different than every other webgroup out there, and you think they have a
MORAL DUTY?
Go away. Just... go away and come back when you've figured out where you went wrong in life.