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Smart move - better IPO before the incoming censorship increase.

You may be reading the causality backwards. My guess is that Reddit's recent changes to policy and crackdowns on abusive communities are to avoid the kinds of controversies that would be damaging for a publicly-traded company.

With that said, it's exciting to imagine that Reddit going public might actually lead to a further crackdown on hate speech.

There is no such thing as hate speech, as something that can be objectively identified and reasoned about.

You can have free speech or you can have "hate speech."

Hate is an emotion, a label people apply to the way they feel. The way you feel is your choice. Emotions and feelings are variable and subjective.

Freedom is absolute and objective, something is free or it isn't.

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it's exciting to imagine

What exactly excites you about such a scenario, from an open discourse and marketplace of ideas perspective?

I'd compare your argument to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I think tolerating hate speech will eventually cause all speech to become hate speech.

There is no such thing as hate speech, as something that can be objectively identified and reasoned about.

Are you sure? My country defines it in a legal sense, along with many others.

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