It's a realistic approach to navigating the real world where there are bills to pay, Reddit Gold isn't going to cut it, and advertisers don't want their brand associated with random NSFW/NSFL content.
I don't get this obsession with browbeating every content provider not living up to these Stallmanistic extremes.
Reddit should not have to give up any sort of protection for allowing advertisers to not have their ads show up on certain subreddits, or censoring Nazis.
If Reddit of all sites is what we're calling shameful, there is no hope.
What else can you do? They're happy to host communities they don't like but don't want them as part of their public image.
The kind of content that's quarantined (because nsfb is an advertising thing) isn't "political variation." They're absolute cesspools hate, doxxing, threats of violence. Were these communities gathered in a physical room I would genuinely feel unsafe.
Reddit actually has a good amount of political variation and opinion. A staggering amount of Redditors are authoritarian conservatives by their opinions given how often people say Reddit is full of bleeding-heart liberals, but they would never associate themselves with the Republican party or "conservatives".
as we've seen in recent years, social media is a highly effective platform for influencing people. in general, the platform is immune to legal repercussions for stuff that users post, because it isn't construed as the company's own message. this leaves the door open for a "neutral" platform to influence people through selectively moderating certain content.
people here aren't demanding that reddit (and other sites) let people post whatever they want. they are asking for sites of a certain size to actually be neutral as a condition of safe harbor protections. to me this seems pretty fair. if you have millions of users and exercise editorial control over the content, you should be on the hook for what's left.
It's a realistic approach to navigating the real world where there are bills to pay, Reddit Gold isn't going to cut it, and advertisers don't want their brand associated with random NSFW/NSFL content.
I don't get this obsession with browbeating every content provider not living up to these Stallmanistic extremes.
Reddit should not have to give up any sort of protection for allowing advertisers to not have their ads show up on certain subreddits, or censoring Nazis.
If Reddit of all sites is what we're calling shameful, there is no hope.