“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.
“FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN” is a clear, actionable statement that has a clear target and goal and actually has meaning to people who don’t know what Reddit is (like say, a potential shareholder or investor)
Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree
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Ellen Pao was actually right though. The attacks on her came from the far right and redditors lapped that shit up because reddit was (and still is) a misogynistic shithole. Her biggest crime was… Closing /r/fatpeoplehate.
If she’d stayed on Reddit wouldn’t have helped qanon, wouldn’t have helped cause theredpill movement, wouldn’t have caused the_donald, wouldn’t have caused a shit load of bad things.
Comparing Huffman to her is absurd. Huffman is a far right prepper. She is as far as I can tell a pretty well-meaning liberal, as far as tech CEOs go anyway, which is unusual given that the vast majority of CEOs in tech them are far right crypto bro libertarian fuckheads.
Misogynistic shithole my ass. There’s some misogynists there, but my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr.
Depends a lot on which subreddits you frequented. Some subreddits were alright, but many of the largest ones would frequently have uncontested ableism and transphobia.
What does misogyny have to do with disabled or trans people? Other than the fact that around 1/2 are women?
The comment above mentioned progressivism in general
Since you’re asking, I find that blatant transphobia also tends to go hand in hand with some sort of sexism, but that’s an unrelated point.
Sorry, I skipped the progressivism part.
The crime was turning up the censorship. Saying mean things should absolutely be allowed.
“Censorship” lol, cry harder.
Her platform, her rules. Don’t like it? Leave. This ain’t a government, you have no free speech rights here or anywhere else on the internet, don’t like how a site operates/what a site allows? Then leave.
That’s what people are doing now. There weren’t alternatives then. And your attitude is unjustified.
Progressive censors are just as bad as their right-wing counterparts, but live in a delusional world in which whatever they do is right because they’re the ones that do it.
Did I say anything about liking their stances? No. They’re a private company though. They can do as they fucking please.
In fact the only way to force them to not censor anyone is to eliminate their (the owners) first amendment rights. That’s why private companies are not beholden to it. Unfortunately this concept is foreign to right wing nuts.
I did. I haven’t logged into my reddit account in 8 fucking years.