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> I'd love if he provided an example of these powerful and dangerous ideas that must be censored.

Plenty of historical reddit examples of this: /r/fatpeoplehate was the first sub I remember that got removed and caused huge site-wide drama, then there were all of the incel subreddits, then /r/watchpeopledie and the wave of gore subreddits, etc.

> Why is this not a matter best handled by law enforcement?

Is there anything illegal about making fun of overweight people, ranting about how much you hate women, or posting industrial accident footage? Generally speaking, no. Is it something that should be on reddit? This is where the arbitration and individual judgment of admin comes in.

I mean the list of banned subreddits is (mostly) known if you want a few hundred examples. https://old.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/fg3608/update...

Like I would post some highlights so people don't have to click the link but I don't even feel good about posting most of the names of the subs. They're just... awful.

Really. While some of them have clearly illegal content which goes beyond the topic of censorship there are LOTS of others a person that values the princible of free speech should have no problem with

Like Drugs, Guns, etc.

Then you have entire lists of subreddits that break the rules (harassment, hate speech, etc) but are deemed "acceptable" by the admins due to those subreddits breaking the rules against people that the reddit admins have deemed "acceptable targets"

I mean there were (and are!) large hate subs that stayed up for years and get no attention from the admins until it makes the news so I wouldn't necessarily take "hasn't been banned yet" as some kind of endorsement.

However, I think there's a lot of nuance when it comes to subreddits that mock "acceptable targets." The content might look superficially similar but the intent and impact are different.

A hypothetical subreddit /r/letsmockwomen serves mostly as a lightning rod for those who already hate women to have an excuse to let that out in a forum where it's "more acceptable" because the OP isn't just a woman, but typically a woman who's done something that, in isolation, is stupid and makes sense to mock. But the difference compared to /r/letsmockwhitepeople is that the replies will won't be "she's dumb" but "women are dumb." And that's the the idea that will proliferate, not "women are, like all humans, are capable of stupidity" which leads to real life consequences.

I think the inverse of letsmockwomen would be letsmockmen where in reddit both subreddits can be very toxic and promote violence however only one gets banned

Anything that causes a bunch of your userbase to get annoyed and leave, your own employees to have a bunch of their time wasted, trouble hiring new ones, or anything that causes real world consequences (from crimes to users getting in offline fights) you may have lawyers bill you for.

This has nothing to do with ~the powerful losing power~. You need to remember that most things that happen in real life aren't interesting.

> This has nothing to do with ~the powerful losing power.

I guess I consider a company dying the "powerful losing power".

Its essentially what his whole thread was about - companies don't care about the politics - they want to survive. And they will survive at the expensive of society's well-being.

It's easy an idea that alienates more than 20-30% of your user base as he said they don't really care about politics and I believe him. Can be something simple like a fucked up redesign... looking at you Digg.

ahh shit okay I see. Yeah social media is a cancer. At least in its current centralized form.