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Not censorship.

Freedom.

Private property includes the freedom to restrict what occurs on that property. Reddit is private property.

Same goes for Hacker News.

Let freedom ring!

edit: guess people don't like freedom :-(

Would Hacker News be "censoring" me if they deleted my submission to TIMECUBE? Isn't it "MAH RAIGHT" to proselytize my sincere and deeply-held beliefs about TIMECUBE?

Are you CENSORIZING MAH FREEZE PEECH by downvoting and thus hiding from public view, this comment?

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They are free to enact censorship, you could say. And users are free to identify where that censorship has taken place, react to it and let it inform our opinion or use of reddit.

What is an example of censorship that should shape my opinion?

I've only ever seen bigots who think transgendered people are icky and can't stop being "ironic" about it getting "censored".

And we're free to call out their hypocrisy (in selective application of censorship)

Kicking someone off your platform for calling everyone a "leftist cuck" or some other bigoted "ironic" comment is not hypocrisy.

It is basic human decency.

Do you have an example of someone who was "censored" inappropriately?

The accusation is in the other direction, that some people aren't being censored despite saying equally obnoxious things. I've seen quite a few popular and non-censored Reddit comments talking about "Rethuglicans", or explaining that huge swaths of the population are irredeemably evil.

Do you have any evidence any sub was banned for the opposite equivalent of "Democraps" or whatever? This feels like a strawman without evidence that people were banned selectively.

I was taking it on faith that the comment I was responding to was correct and people are banned for just saying "leftist cucks". If that's not true then that changes things.

They have nothing.

I can cite the recent "Conservative Bigots v. Twitter and others" cases, every single thread of political philosophy from anarchism to totalitarianism in which private property is allowed, and the terms of service that people agree to when using an online resource...

...and all they can do is wave their hands and chant "censorship".

> "MAH RAIGHT"

> MAH FREEZE PEECH

Mocking the southern accent?

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