TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy. (u/spez) (opens in new tab)

the_donald is now filtered from r/all. Quarantined. Subreddit for discussing the President elect and all things associated to him.

Does anyone know is there anything to allegation that b/c spez actions 'Reddit just lost their safe harbor protections. They are now legally liable for every post on Reddit.'[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/801627024431271936

To me, the egregious bit is how reddit is trying to simply brush aside this monumental problem by downplaying it as a mere "controversy" caused by nothing more than "editing some comments".

What? That moron hasn't targeted a particular political group for censorship, and to do so hasn't he showed the world that reddit is willing to go to any extent to manipulate users to follow their whims?

That is not a mere "controversy". This non-apology apology doesn't even scratch the surface of how appallingly awful reddit showed itself to be. In fact, this pathetic excuse for atonement is just yet another weak attempt at brushing aside the PR problem reddit created for themselves.

But it won't simply vanish, particularly when these stalinist characters still linger around.

Ah yes because the mainstream media censored Trump so much. I didn't see any coverage of him or his views anywhere! And I certainly didn't see the bullshit he said just simply parroted and repeated in newspaper headlines without any clarification or fact checking at all.

Give me a fucking break.

> Censoring alternative, conservative views is exactly why Trump became president.

I'm having a hard time telling from the link, but it seems that /u/spez censored personal insults directed at him, which, while still inexcuseable, is quite different from censoring merely alternative viewpoints.

The same Trump who dominated media coverage for about a year? The one who participated in televised debates seen by millions? If anything, the problem was that his views got too much coverage.

Part of the problem is that it seems like the lines between legitimate conservative views and hate speech were blurred a little bit this election. I live in Minnesota and Trump came and talked about Somali refugees here in a way that angered a lot of residents. That's even not counting the people who are blatantly racist like the ones that put up posters based off of literal Nazi propaganda at the university I used to go to.