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geneusutwerk  ·  4000 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fear of Social Media: Margaret Thatcher and Freedom of Speech

The moral of this story is that reddit mods are unelected and unpaid. They are just volunteers picked by historical circumstance and have probably waaaaaay too much power.





b_b  ·  4000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The free speech question is interesting. Obviously, I don't have free speech in your house. But, also, your house isn't squarely in public either. Forums like Reddit (and Hubski, too, obviously) are some public/private hybrids where it's not really clear where the line between free speech, and get-the-fuck-off-my-lawn is. I think that especially the teenie bopper mods sometimes don't have a subtle enough worldview to see this, and they always err on the side of their sub being their sub and no one else's.

geneusutwerk  ·  4000 days ago  ·  link  ·  

b_b I'd totally give you free speech in my house.