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MilitantNegro  ·  3520 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Horrible people are just a vocal minority: Prove it

    Is this basically, "Is Reddit and/or its moderaters really a decent site/decent people if they don't do anything in the face of the really nasty stuff?"

It may be my fault but the focus shouldn't really be Reddit, this has repeated itself in Twitter, Facebook, various message boards, it was basically the downfall of Digg.

In terms of Facebook they seem to be very much stricter in what they do and don't allow which insulates them legally. Want to show a beheading? Nope. Breastfeeding your baby? Nope. Someone flagged your WorldStar sourced video too many times? Yoink.

Looking at the real world we see it even with the ISIS militia in Iraq. Even they, feeling they're righteous in their deeds, cover their faces, seemingly still needing the cloak of anonymity to carry out their most barbaric of activities. It's not only on the internet where we give in to our most base instincts when no one knows our names.