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    Reddit bans FPH

    FatPeopleHate- a sub which effectively devotes time to shaming and making fat people: whether they are slightly overweight or morbidly obese, feel like they are worthless, has been banned under new harassment rules within reddit.

    Meanwhile subreddits such as r/coontown, r/beatingcripples and r/rapingwomen continue to exist.

    What are your thoughts on this? I personally feel it infringes on free speech and right to protest unhealthy living standards the world is falling victim too.

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    Reddit can censor whatever they want. They aren't the government. If I was running a website I would certainly consider banning groups whose literal purpose is to denigrate others.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Floopa View Post
    FatPeopleHate- a sub which effectively devotes time to shaming and making fat people: whether they are slightly overweight or morbidly obese, feel like they are worthless, has been banned under new harassment rules within reddit.

    Meanwhile subreddits such as r/coontown, r/beatingcripples and r/rapingwomen continue to exist.

    What are your thoughts on this? I personally feel it infringes on free speech and right to protest unhealthy living standards the world is falling victim too.
    Free Speech doesn't apply to Reddit.

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    No reason in censoring it. Reddit is known for what it's known for - unbridled internet rage. The sheer amount of offensive pages is innumerable and impossible to regulate. Surprised they even bothered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fengosa View Post
    Free Speech doesn't apply to Reddit.
    Just like it doesnt apply here, no religion, sexuality, flaming etc. Their site their rules.

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    Tumblrs feelings got hurt.

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    In before "it ain't censorship it the government don't do it"

    People knew this was going to happen when Pao said, paraphrasing, that free speech wasn't the highest priority and she wanted to create a "safe space" (read: echo chamber) for certain people.

    They banned a certain subreddit, which I probably can't spell out here due to SJW mods, that makes fun of NeoGAF whose off-topic forum is basically commie central and bans people who aren't 100% in line with their political agenda.

    Gamergate related stuff being banned there will probably be a thing.

    That site is so fucked up - they have a gang of moderators like bipolarbear who control tens or over a hundred subs who ban/shadowban people for political or no reason, their largest subs are controlled by censorious people who put legitimate topics on a spam filter, and now this.

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    Free speech does not apply to reddit, buuuuttt I see the hypocrisy in their policy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Floopa View Post
    FatPeopleHate- a sub which effectively devotes time to shaming and making fat people: whether they are slightly overweight or morbidly obese, feel like they are worthless, has been banned under new harassment rules within reddit.

    Meanwhile subreddits such as r/coontown, r/beatingcripples and r/rapingwomen continue to exist.

    What are your thoughts on this? I personally feel it infringes on free speech and right to protest unhealthy living standards the world is falling victim too.
    The problem with your feelings is that this is not CONGRESS making laws to limit speech, which is what the amendment states cannot happen. This is a private entity making rules for their private property.
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    Great, Reddit will ban all the edgy boards then those nerds will come to 4chan and continue to shit up the place with there /pol/ shit.

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    A private company wants to make their website more advertiser friendly and banned a section whose entire purpose was to be needlessly cruel and harass other people. They simply broke reddit rules by vote brigading other sections and users, so even if reddit HAD TO have some reason, aside from them wanting to do so, they have a perfectly valid one.

    Good riddance, I've had that shithole blocked for a while. Those people sit on a high horse when apparently the only thing they have going for them is NOT being fat (even though I bet a good half of them would medically fall into the category of overweight) as evidenced by the fact that they take their ability to shit on other people's choices on reddit all day so seriously.

    I also really enjoy the comments that default to "reddit has decided to ban fph, they MUST ALL BE FATTIES THEMSELVES!" Yea, Ellen Pao is super fat, guys.
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    I don't see a problem with this. How does freedom of speech apply to a privately owned forum?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Floopa View Post
    FatPeopleHate- a sub which effectively devotes time to shaming and making fat people: whether they are slightly overweight or morbidly obese, feel like they are worthless, has been banned under new harassment rules within reddit.

    Meanwhile subreddits such as r/coontown, r/beatingcripples and r/rapingwomen continue to exist.

    What are your thoughts on this? I personally feel it infringes on free speech and right to protest unhealthy living standards the world is falling victim too.
    Their forums/site their rules, on the other hand why would anyone make fun of fat people?

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    Private boards operate under private rules. They aren't required to uphold Freedom of Speech.

    People really need to learn these simple things.

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    Their forums/site their rules, on the other hand why would anyone make fun of fat people?
    Mostly because they're fat.
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    Because fuck you, that's why.

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    Free speech doesn't apply to privately owned and operated shit on the internet. Whining about it makes you look silly.
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    Don't like it, don't go there.

    I prefer 4chan for my unbridled idiocy and rage. Plus some of the porn is better.
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    Now they will make their own website.

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    I wouldn't care if they weren't hypocritical about it. I've seen some of the posts on /r/Coontown and it is disgusting. but it still exists.

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    That subreddit was fucking disgusting... The amount of hate was crazy.

    BUT, I don't agree with removing the subreddit at all. Censorship sucks...
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