What do /g think of this Also what did he mean by this?
"If you were talking to people making platforms now, what would you urge them to pay attention to? I don’t have very many opinions or thoughts about what Reddit or Twitter should do at this time. I just don’t. But I’ve got a lot of advice for start-ups, and it’s not very fucking complicated. It’s just: Think about the impact that you want to have on your users and on the people consuming your content and do the right thing. They know what the right thing is. Discord knows what the right thing is. I had conversations with Jason [Citron] a year ago about the problem of white supremacy on his site, and he said, “I don’t want to invade their privacy by going into their channels and reading what they’re doing.” And I said, “They’re gonna cause deaths because you’re not doing that.” And he said, “You really think so?” And I said, “Yeah.” And sure enough they didn’t do anything, and sure enough deaths were caused because of the shit going on in their channels.
These things can be foreseen. Don’t be idiots about it. You’re people, you see what’s going on, you see trends that are forming, just fucking do something. It’s not that hard. That’s my advice to founders of start-ups, just be mindful of it. Or put somebody in charge of being mindful of it."
Based Jason Citron respecting privacy instead of playing the hero, resulting in nothing because no one on reddit would tell about his plan to kill someone.
Austin Powell
>your users >your content ye always though that for reddit people were just sheep and data, also the last part shows it even more that they don't care about people.
Blake Smith
>hand tattoo >airpods >looks like a dyke >argues security over freedom jesus christ, the epitome of a redditor
Nathaniel Gray
>discord niggers have killed people
Is there any evidence of this?
Levi Gonzalez
The article is several years old but the basic idea still stands. He talks about how they never did anything to stop hate groups from using their platform as a 'meeting site' because of muh privacy + muh freedom of speech. Do companies have the responsibility of doing this? If you run a platform and see that it's gaining popularity amongst hate groups are you somehow morally obligated to break it up? What's interesting was this article was released before Reddit was found to be a huge source of Russian propaganda before and after the 2016 election (among other sites like facebook and twitter). Are these sites morally responsible to prevent 'bad' things from happening using their platform?
Jordan Brown
>no arguments JC, the epigraph of 4cuck
Ayden Thompson
upvoted and subscribed
Gabriel Reyes
t. NPC
Nathaniel Nguyen
Reddit absolutely is making the world a worse place although not for the reasons he thinks.
Owen Peterson
tldr
Eli Robinson
>t. seething virgin nolifer who can't use "t." properly
Adrian Wilson
>I was a dev at Reddit and all they cared about was getting more unique visitors per month and we did everything we could to increase that value even if it meant inviting hatred and propaganda into the fold
Nicholas Fisher
pc npc
Angel Diaz
This is the kind of radical left blame everyone for everything. If you make a tool someone can use it for good or bad, it's not the job of people who make trucks to police what their users do with them, if they plough them into a crowd of people.
No more than Discord are responsible for what white supremacists do when they coordinate over their platform.
Even if you could do something like moderate these massive platforms which is an impossible task, people who wanted to do bad things would find unmoderated alternatives, or they'd hook your product with addons to tunnel encryption through it to maintain anonymous.
These are social problems which are solved by social interventions, you don't try and stop white supremacists from communicating, you try and stop the circumstances which lead to these people becoming white supremacists in the first place, maybe they were mistreated or abused by various people in their life which gave them an extreme outlook.
Daniel Adams
discord based now?
Connor Rivera
Reddit had nothing to do with argument or debate, originally. It was designed to be a news, blog, and content aggregate site where the most popular hits were filtered to the top, based on category, to save it's users time on scouring the Internet. It's literally a message board system with "Hot" tab enabled and nothing else.
The users took it past it's original scope, but this jackass acting like he intended Reddit to be what it is today. No, you narcissistic liar, you didn't make the world a worse place, you didn't do much of anything. You are not important and your idea wasn't even exclusive. You do not matter.
Gavin Williams
I always thought plebbit was a lame Jow Forums copycat that wanted to try and steal out momentum and memes, while making big bucks for the owners through advertising and shit, something moot and gookmoot refused to do.
Julian Martinez
First we need to decide what these sites are. Are they private content publishers? Or are they public venues for open discussion. If these companies are private publishers, then the have a right to curate the content on their sites, hiwever they are also legally liable for the content on their platforms. If they are public venues then they have no liability for the content on their sites, but they are also not allowed to censor that content.
Think of it this way: I decide to open public concert hall and make money by booking speakers/performers and selling tickets. My venue is popular, it attracts mostly politically neutral performances like plays, concerts etc. Over time political figures use the venue to conduct rallies etc. Say I then recieve a complaint and threat of litigation because a republican was offended by something a democrat said. As long as I open the venue to anyone, then I am not responsible for the content at my venue. Say that same democrat was using the venue to organize criminal activity like political violence. As long as I report that to the proper authorities then I am not liable. Lets Say however that they were saying abortion is murder and I dont want my venue supporting that message. In that case I can refile my corporate status as a private club. In that case I can discriminate against whoever I want for whatever reason. However, my clients are now "members" and if they use my venue for illegal activities I am liable.
You can't have your cake and eat it too
Gavin Garcia
advertisers are not their primary revenue source. They collect and sell your personal information to advertising companies and government agencies. You consent to all of it when you agree to the ToS at the time of account creation
Henry Barnes
Discord is a honey pot, the get all the data they can on you and will give any and all of it up in a minute, don't believe me just read their terms of service and privacy policy
Daniel Ramirez
>advertisers are not their primary revenue >collect and sell info to advertising comps >some tinfoil government agency hype
Glad you agree with me then, redditor. 2 upboats for you.
David Wright
> question mark flag > promotes censor ship of "wrongthink" under the baseless assertion it leads to violence while protecting actual violent antifa and communist groups whose stated purpose is literally to commit violence on those it disagrees with.
The descent into madness is still feels like getting hit in the face with a brick traveling at 100mph.
Nathaniel Miller
Digits confirm, (((question mark flags))) glow in the dark
Charles Perry
It was more like a much more comprehensive Digg clone in the beginning. When Digg went full retard with a huge redesign and blocked a few stories, tons of users flocked to reddit and it grew from there. Funny how it's become the very thing that made people switch sites, except now there aren't really any viable alternatives.
whats his fucking argument? that MUH PEOPLE ARE GONNA DIE IF YOU DONT RESTRICT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS REEE
Eli Bell
Probably because the thread was moved here from Jow Forums
Jose Peterson
Reddit is an astroturfed, botted hellscape and this faggot is complaining it isn’t Orwellian enough
Elijah Williams
lol really tho
and this would of get you cruxified here
but
honestly its not a big deal
just look at /v
almost 80% of /v posts come from r/gaming’s front page these days and literally more than half of /v cross posts on r/gaming
and you know its kinda crazy
many people cross post from reddit to herenand vice versus
infact these websites are almost the same except for user ids post history and post voting
ive been here for almost 2 months and really besides the excessive racism and women hating that goes on here it’s basixlly the same but i guess so of its inevadible with the anonymity here
i just dont know why the hate of reddit exists here. something must of happened before i started using these sites i guess
irregardlessly, we can work to move past this i feel
Caleb Miller
>Reddit was found to be a huge source of Russian propaganda before and after the 2016 election stopped reading
He used it correctly, you turbotumblrina. Go eat tide pods.
Wyatt Ortiz
>if you see trends that are forming, just fucking do something. It’s not that hard. That’s my advice to founders of start-ups, just be mindful of it. Or put somebody in charge of being mindful of it."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants,
Evan Perry
>problem of white supremacy There is no problem.
Camden Robinson
>hate groups Stupid point
Landon Thomas
>Reddit was found to be a huge source of Russian propaganda before and after the 2016 election Not really
Wyatt Butler
>Companies should monitor everything and ban problematic views among certain groups to prevent crimes >Governments doing this are fascist though, fuck the NSA Pick a fucking side
