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I didn't bring up Reddit, but as long as we're talking about it... with all its mainstream celebrity AMAs and VC money, it's been doing a lot of "house cleaning" and is hardly a free speech zone anymore. The whole point of free speech is that unpopular groups aren't shut down for having unpopular opinions.

What you call "raids" I call links. Hacker News "raids" blogs everyday. Nothing malicious about it. If you're talking about actual, organized raids in the "you know what to do" fashion... well, I never saw that or any evidence for it.

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The now-banned subreddit had an external forum (the name of the subreddit with a prepended 'r', if memory serves) which they used to coordinate raids with obvious malicious intent.

The whole point of free speech is that unpopular groups aren't shut down for having unpopular opinions.

Reddit's administration has made a point of this as much as they possible. But when you break the rules, you break the rules.

> they used to coordinate raids with obvious malicious intent.

Kind of like /r/shitredditsays (a forum exclusively for raiding other subreddits), which has the blessing of the reddit admins because it's PC...

> Reddit's administration has made a point of this as much as they possible.

Then why is this in the Reddit ToS?

You agree not to use any obscene, indecent, or offensive language or to provide to or post on or through the Website any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is defamatory, abusive, bullying, harassing, racist, hateful, or violent. You agree to refrain from ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, homophobia, and personal attacks when using the Website.

Reddit is many things, but a free speech zone it is not.

> */r/shitredditsays ... it's PC...

I wouldn't quite say they PC... but I don't know what I would call them. I don't think there is really a term that adequately describes using shock tactics, belittling, and bullying to further an otherwise commendable cause. They are "Un-PC about being PC" I suppose.

Bullies. Bullies for a good cause are still bullies.

Just the word "bullies" doesn't explain why they have been untouched, but yeah. They are bullies.

From what I've read, one of the Reddit admins is an SRSer, which is why they are untouchable despite their duplicitous behavior.

Well... that would explain a lot....

The whole of Reddit is PC. SRS is violently PC.

There is a subreddit devoted to beating women. What is your definition of PC?

The purge of Reddit will continue. Don't worry, /r/beatingwomen will be gone soon.

"trolls using political correctness as an excuse for lulz"

Which is totally unlike everyone else, who troll and use free speech as an excuse for lulz.

The TOS has never been enforced, as the admins have explicitly stated.

well said. a lot of these guys would rather eliminate the right as much as possible.

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