Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian fights for a free and open Internet

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74 points·wallflower··7 comments

Freedom is a great thing. I agree with the stance against the two bills mentioned in the article.

However, I wish the Reddit co-founder was also against Internet mob justice. It's great for the site because it brings clicks and readers..but not good for our society or the people it targets.

What evidence makes you say that I'm not against mob justice?

I trust you saw this? http://www.redditblog.com/2013/04/reflections-on-recent-bost...

I've been a Redditor for 8 years and I have never seen any of the current or former staff condone or encourage Internet mob justice.

My observation has been that they're pretty hands-off even when things get out of control and they often drop into a thread or put up a blog response that almost chides the community for their overall actions.

Perhaps their (mostly) hands-off approach is what makes you think they're not against Internet mob justice? Any admin moderation leads to a Streisand effect giving the problem more visibility and it is very much a problem with the community at times.

while his website practice widespread censorship

https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/top/?sort=top&t=year

This is very interesting and quite sad at first glance. Has there been any official response from reddit?

nope. They don't care about any of it.

The admins are in on some of the things going on too.

I always thought it was pretty ironic that architect of one of the biggest platforms for harassment on the internet wrote a book called "Without Consent"...and it wasn't about that. Heh.

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