/r/beatingwomen has been banned. (self.SubredditDrama)
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(Reposted as self-post to abide by the rules.)
/r/beatingwomen, a sub run by either trolls or virulent misogynysts (you decide!) has just been banned.
The sub has been pretty mum, but its mere existence has caused a lot of drama in the past.
I predict quite a few SRS accusations, and accusations that the admins are trying to clean up reddit to sell in the future.
edit: it looks like the users of /r/beatingwomen made /r/beatingwomen2
edit 2: according to one of the mods there, the reason they were banned is this (a quote from /u/cupcake1713):
>Lemme break it down for you, even though I know you're just a troll and this probably isn't worth my time. There were a ton of mods involved in that modmail thread where you all were making fun of and harassing that poor guy who thought he could counter-troll you. Sure, it might have been hilarious, but people just kept replying and replying and replying even though that guy had begged mercy. Then a handful of mods decided it would be great to post his personal info in that thread and in other subreddits, and a bunch of other mods followed them in there and voted/commented in there. After we banned those individual moderators for their actions, YOU IDIOTS ADDED THEM BACK ON NEW ACCOUNTS TO KEEP MODERATING YOUR SUBREDDIT. Your mod list is full of people who have been banned and banned and banned again, and you can't be trusted to keep things on the up and up. That is why your subreddit is banned.
495 comments submitted at 23:29:15 on Jun 9, 2014 by IAmAN00bie
Reddit sure does hate freedom of speech
Goddam, it sucks that a private website gets tired of us men talking about how bitches suck and how we get so hard by slapping them across the room. Like, damn, my freeze peaches!
I will never understand you Westerners. You all bring up private entities when freedom of expression is brought up ('it sucks that a private website...'), but Mill's critique of censorship is not restricted to public institutions. Why is the concept of freedom of expression often throttled back to only explicitly mean First Amendment protections within the US Constitution and not the broader philosophical concept?
Everyone has free speech, just not necessarily here. Your voice can't be silenced, but nobody is required to give you a microphone.
Everyone has freedom of expression; they just don't necessarily have freedom of expression here.
> Why is the concept of freedom of expression often throttled back to only explicitly mean First Amendment protections within the US Constitution and not the broader philosophical concept?
I said and asked this in relation to your 'it sucks that a private website..." line:
> You all bring up private entities when freedom of expression is brought up ('it sucks that a private website...'), but Mill's critique of censorship is not restricted to public institutions. Why is the concept of freedom of expression often throttled back to only explicitly mean First Amendment protections within the US Constitution and not the broader philosophical concept?
Again, why?
Because lizard people ate our brains.
Is it really that difficult of a question?
free enterprise Which, for the few stupid people here, means that most companies will try to avoid pissing off their customers and take corrective action when they realize they have pissed them off. It ain't got shit to do with free speech, it's covering the bottom line. Subs like that make reddit look bad, so they dump them to get good press and more money.
Because Reddit isn't shutting down free speech, it is refusing to provide a platform.
Yeah that's what he was asking. So why make the distinction?
Allowing a platform and then restricting use is a form of censoring. I don't know why you would take issue with the notion that censorship is to be found here.
They do censor, as is their right. It's a business that can make and follow its own rules (within legal bounds).
No shit?
Just joking, reddit is actually a government program to keep people amused and distracted while the lizard people take over.
I don't think anyone is under the illusion that Reddit is anything but a private entity.
So what is your point? Without the pretentious literary quotes and shit, what is your actual point?
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I mean, if nothing else because the sub was obviously banned for other reasons. It had been around for a while, if it were about opinions, why now?
Anyway, to more directly answer your question, because free speech is generally considered to be the right to say something, not the right to have a platform to say something.