It's an interesting time to be a new user on Hubski. Overall I find the site design and tenor of conversation to be really appealling. But I've also noticed some issues that seem to have been coming to a head recently. It looks like a lot of that has to do to what degree this is(n't) a Reddit alternative and how the culture of the userbase differs. From my perspective, a lot of what degrades the quality of exchange across the Internet, especially Reddit, has been spurious claims to violation of free speech, which too often go unchallenged. Here's a few articles that demonstrate how "free speech" is misappropriated these days:
- http://jezebel.com/5985635/an-idiots-guide-to-free-speech
- http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Imaginary_rights_relating_to_freedom_of_speech
- http://popehat.com/2009/07/01/speech-is-tyranny/
Bonus: an article published yesterday about how freedom of speech debates have been playing out over the past few decades: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-hell-you-say
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