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overeager overeater
Oct 16, 2011

"The cosmonauts were transfixed with wonderment as the sun set - over the Earth - there lucklessly, untethered Comrade Todd on fire."



Tiny Bug Child posted:

gently caress fat people, but more importantly gently caress the idea that you should take stuff off the internet or off of anywhere because it offends people

except it didn't get removed for being offensive, it got removed because they were genuinely harassing people

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Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Tiny Bug Child posted:

"b-b-but free speech only constrains the GOVERNMENT and reddit is a PRIVATE ORGANIZATION!!!" you wail. oh cool i guess it's alright then if the government can't technically silence you even if you can be hounded out of your career and any platform you can actually be heard on. nothing wrong there

subway employee makes racist remarks at customers and is fired.

"we at subway aren't cool with this"

BUT MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



also lol at "being hounded off any platform you can be heard on" cause death to fats and scary women who don't like video games shouted from the garbage dump of the internet has so much value

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Cat Face Joe posted:

subway employee makes racist remarks at customers and is fired.

"we at subway aren't cool with this"

BUT MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH

a doctor tells an obese patient to lose weight, gets fired for hurting her customers feelings

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

Vlad the Retailer posted:

except it didn't get removed for being offensive, it got removed because they were genuinely harassing people

if ppl are doing something criminal then ban them and comply with whatever subpoenas come your way but you shouldn't have to do anything beyond what you are legally required to

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
"why can't i harass fat people on reddit? FREEDUM OF SPEEECH"
"ugh why are these loving PROTESTORS having a march I need to drive to loving wal-mart gently caress OFF AND DIE ACTIVIST SCUM"

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Jonad posted:

a doctor tells an obese patient to lose weight, gets fired for hurting her customers feelings

why would you get your doctor fired like that

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

lol here he comes

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

Cat Face Joe posted:

also lol at "being hounded off any platform you can be heard on" cause death to fats and scary women who don't like video games shouted from the garbage dump of the internet has so much value

the "value" of speech is 1) subjective and 2) irrelevant

Baxate
Feb 1, 2011

Cold on a Cob posted:

"why can't i harass fat people on reddit? FREEDUM OF SPEEECH"
"ugh why are these loving PROTESTORS having a march I need to drive to loving wal-mart gently caress OFF AND DIE ACTIVIST SCUM"

its illegal to disrupt the flow of traffic

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Tiny Bug Child posted:

the "value" of speech is 1) subjective and 2) irrelevant

from my subjective view your speech is irrelevant

Constant Hamprince
Oct 24, 2010

by exmarx
College Slice

Cat Face Joe posted:

why would you get your doctor fired like that

i demand EVIDENCE-BASED care aka the kind that doesn't tell me it's unhealthy to be 400 pounds and that any information to the contrary is propaganda spread by the diet industry to trick me into shrinking my majestic folds

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

Cold on a Cob posted:

"why can't i harass fat people on reddit? FREEDUM OF SPEEECH"
"ugh why are these loving PROTESTORS having a march I need to drive to loving wal-mart gently caress OFF AND DIE ACTIVIST SCUM"

hmm yes that's a thing I didn't say

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

sorry jonad but this is not the new fat shaming megathread

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Jonad posted:

i demand EVIDENCE-BASED care aka the kind that doesn't tell me it's unhealthy to be 400 pounds and that any information to the contrary is propaganda spread by the diet industry to trick me into shrinking my majestic folds

:gb2gbs:

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Tiny Bug Child posted:

the "value" of speech is 1) subjective and 2) irrelevant

a private corporation that doesn't want to be looked at as stormfront: meme edition is well within their rights to assign value of said speech vs their goals and take appropriate action

what would your company do if one of its employees was poasting racist screeds on the site blog

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
i for one agree with tbc and i think i should have full unfettered access to his privately owned work servers to publish both intimate details about his life and pictures of his tiny bug penis

anything less is an affront to our dearly held right to free speech and i will doxx anyone who disagrees :colbert:

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Cold on a Cob posted:

i for one agree with tbc and i think i should have full unfettered access to his privately owned work servers to publish both intimate details about his life and pictures of his tiny bug penis

anything less is an affront to our dearly held right to free speech and i will doxx anyone who disagrees :colbert:

doxx my neg hole

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

Tiny Bug Child posted:

if ppl are doing something criminal then ban them and comply with whatever subpoenas come your way but you shouldn't have to do anything beyond what you are legally required to

and if an entire section of your website is particularly troublesome you shouldn't have to keep it around and put in the effort to identify and deal with the specific users who are doing something criminal when it'd be easier to just get rid of all of them

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Cat Face Joe posted:

stormfront: meme edition

this © quiggy industries, 2015 just fyi

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Cold on a Cob posted:

i for one agree with tbc and i think i should have full unfettered access to his privately owned work servers to publish both intimate details about his life and pictures of his tiny bug penis

anything less is an affront to our dearly held right to free speech and i will doxx anyone who disagrees :colbert:

let us not turn to personal attacks, here in the reddit is bad thread

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

Cat Face Joe posted:

a private corporation that doesn't want to be looked at as stormfront: meme edition is well within their rights to assign value of said speech vs their goals and take appropriate action

what would your company do if one of its employees was poasting racist screeds on the site blog

this is not a valid comparison. I run porn sites, not a site where the whole point is to let people communicate with each other

yes they are well within their right to get rid of the fat haters what I'm saying is nobody should want them to

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24tj99/exneckbeards_of_reddit_when_did_you_realize_you

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Cat Face Joe posted:

let us not turn to personal attacks, here in the reddit is bad thread

FREEDOM OF SPEEEEEEEECH

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

A girl that I crushed on for 3 years commented on one of my instagram posts featuring a cannoli saying "OMG GIMME". Me in all of my neckbeard attitude figured it would be wise to buy another, and drive to her house after school, give it to her, surprise her, have her fall hopelessly in love with me and we would ride my segway into the sunrise. I bought it, it melted in my car, I got lost, arrived at her house 2 hours later, turns out she wasn't there, so I drive to her friend's house, 2 hours later again, the cannoli now bears little resemblance to it's true form, arrive, sweating like a pig, hand her the floppy limp dick of a dessert to her, stand there awkwardly for 5 minutes, then drive all the way back home. Make a bad luck brian meme feeling sorry for myself.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



Tiny Bug Child posted:

this is not a valid comparison. I run porn sites, not a site where the whole point is to let people communicate with each other

it's not perfect but its valid. reddit allowing lovely behavior makes it appear that they support it or at least don't care about it

Tiny Bug Child posted:

yes they are well within their right to get rid of the fat haters what I'm saying is nobody should want them to

understood. i can agree with this insofar that I believe that reddit has bigger issues than fat shaming

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

As a Millennial I posted:

A girl that I crushed on for 3 years commented on one of my instagram posts featuring a cannoli saying "OMG GIMME". Me in all of my neckbeard attitude figured it would be wise to buy another, and drive to her house after school, give it to her, surprise her, have her fall hopelessly in love with me and we would ride my segway into the sunrise. I bought it, it melted in my car, I got lost, arrived at her house 2 hours later, turns out she wasn't there, so I drive to her friend's house, 2 hours later again, the cannoli now bears little resemblance to it's true form, arrive, sweating like a pig, hand her the floppy limp dick of a dessert to her, stand there awkwardly for 5 minutes, then drive all the way back home. Make a bad luck brian meme feeling sorry for myself.

the printer schlep stories of 2015 arent nearly as charming

med school head
Apr 17, 2012

Perplx posted:

freedom of speech means you make a your own website for your hate speech

it doesn't protect your right to post on /r/whitepower or whatever on a server owned by an 8 billion dollar publishing conglomerate

this is correct meow close thread

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

gargle chome posted:

this is correct meow close thread

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Tiny Bug Child posted:

yes they are well within their right to get rid of the fat haters what I'm saying is nobody should want them to

yeah but there's a difference between:

"hey look how ugly this person is"

and

"hey look how ugly this person is, let's get a bunch of people and flood her social media with death threats"

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

theflyingexecutive posted:

yeah but there's a difference between:

"hey look how ugly this person is"

and

"hey look how ugly this person is, let's get a bunch of people and flood her social media with death threats"

the tiny bug child response is: you ban that person who did that, but don't punish all the posters of The Fat Hate People Subreddit based on that one bad apple.

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

As a Millennial I posted:

the tiny bug child response is: you ban that person who did that, but don't punish all the posters of The Fat Hate People Subreddit based on that one bad apple.

ty. this guy gets it

Trast
Oct 20, 2010

Three games, thousands of playthroughs. 90% of the players don't know I exist. Still a redhead saving the galaxy with a [Right Hook].

:edi:
Reddit making money off the web traffic from hate groups is capitalism as gently caress.

moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer

gargle chome posted:

this is correct meow close thread

bbbbbbbbbbbut if you were a truly moral human you'd want to be surrounded by all sorts of terrible people wherever you interact with others on the internet

As a Millennial I posted:

the tiny bug child response is: you ban that person who did that, but don't punish all the posters of The Fat Hate People Subreddit based on that one bad apple.

which of the people that post in a subreddit called fatpeoplehate are the good apples, point them out for me.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



A Yolo Wizard posted:

bbbbbbbbbbbut if you were a truly moral human you'd want to be surrounded by all sorts of terrible people wherever you interact with others on the internet

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DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder

A Yolo Wizard posted:

bbbbbbbbbbbut if you were a truly moral human you'd want to be surrounded by all sorts of terrible people wherever you interact with others on the internet


which of the people that post in a subreddit called fatpeoplehate are the good apples, point them out for me.

the ones who post just to bravely defend speech from their mom's basement

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror

A Yolo Wizard posted:

which of the people that post in a subreddit called fatpeoplehate are the good apples, point them out for me.

they're probably all poo poo and that doesn't matter

moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer

Tiny Bug Child posted:

they're probably all poo poo and that doesn't matter

Tiny Bug Child posted:

ty. this guy gets it

Tiny Bug Child
Sep 11, 2004

Avoid Symmetry, Allow Complexity, Introduce Terror
not all of them were participating in illegal harassment tho? i've never actually visited the thing in question but it sounds like originally they were just posting pictures of fat people and making fun of them in their own little contained space, which sounds hilarious + awesome

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Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
all communities are bad by sheer virtue of being composed of humans

we should all strive to go extinct so that another, more worthy species can rise

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