>Instagram now filters out bullying comments intended to harass or upset people in our community. Our Community Guidelines have always prohibited bullying on our platform, and this is the next step in our ongoing commitment to keeping Instagram an inclusive, supportive place for all voices.
Why are all large social media sites afraid of people being upset about what other people say?
Liability
Virtue signalling and marketing
>caring about inane bullshit on websites that aren't Jow Forums
Holy newfag Batman!
>Instagram owned by Facebook
>Facebook an American company
Surely that means freedom of speech protects them?
The users, or the company?
The company.
Free speech is only for public institutions and protection from the goddamn government. Private individuals, and by extension, corporations, are not subject to upholding the law.
>muh rights were infringed though
You gave them up when you signed up for the website. The government can't pull this shit on you.
Americans need to learn to make democracy work for them instead of putting their faith in crony capitalism, just cause they think the alternative of Ruskie levels of """communism""".
Because if people get upset while on the platform they're a little less likely to come back next time and that's bad for business.
These giant social media companies are run by or influenced by the globaist elite who seek a docile lower class to rule
I guess this is the idea. But is it really true? It’s not like instagram isn’t popular already without that censoring
I’m not sure if silencing people will be good for them
Based on my personal experience I would guess normies are more concerned with "cyberbullying" and "cutting toxicity out of their lives" than they are about "freedom of speech".
People will just move to pro free speech alternatives like gab or voat
Fuck off lefty piece of shit. These scumbag corporations only do this shit to keep scumbag lefty establishment scumbags happy. Digital bill of rights that enshrines free speech online is only option.
>using botnetgram
Why do people use shit and then complain about it smelling like poo?
How the fuck you cant edit comments, block users or disable/enable comments instagram
It's called being left wing faggots.
Jow Forums is the perfect example of why lawless communication sucks
On any given board you'll be called a nigger, faggot, soiboi, cuck, etc if you dare to disagree with the meme opinions that everyone parrots here (specially Jow Forums and Jow Forums), it's a completely useless freedom, only worthy in the eyes of trolls and angry bitter neckbeards, if you stayed on topic you wouldn't even miss this "freedom"
>gab or voat
Dead sites, last I heard. And if not, they're still virtually nothing compared to their origin websites.
>hey man, companies are jewish tricks
>REEEEEEEE FUCK OFF LEFTY COMMIE REEEEE
You're the nigger here, faggot.
>Digital bill of rights
Who's gonna enforce it? Seems like the only answer would be a bigger government, meddling in things they have no reason to meddle in. Or maybe a coalition of tech giants policing this digital bill of rights. Oh but wait, they're all lefties!
Whatever will you do?
Jesus, just grow some thicker skin you fucking nigger.
Youre the nigger who hates free speech you absolute cockmuncher you want to protect muh hurt feelings? Off yourself
Off-topic political arguments already, I never would've expected this
the niggercattle must not get upset
happy niggercattle is docile niggercattle
docile niggercattle is easier to handle
>calls guy a "lefty piece of shit" for being pro-regulation
>proceeds to call for corporate regulation
Do you even know what the words you're using mean, or did you just learn "left = bad" from Jow Forums? Do any of you people have any idea what the fuck you're talking about? Why the fuck are there so many retards on this website now?
Go back to Reddit you nigger faggot basedboy cuck
>Why are all large social media sites afraid of people being upset about what other people say?
Social networks are for fun. People don't enjoy spergy incel neckbeards clogging up the comments with "Actually!"
This is a poorly disguised Jow Forums thread. Jow Forums’s single moderator is probably jacking off to hentai right now, so it’ll stay up for a few hours.
Because they'll kill themselves instead of uninstalling the app or having responsible parents.
Im a national socialist and these shit corps should be regulated
This
>I'm so new I don't even remember when sage was a thing to proactively mute users
It's a reflection of the community in which you're in if you get called out any of these names for your dipshit opinions and your fundamental freedom to, you know, not browse Jow Forums. Jesus dude how sad do you have to be to want this sad cesspit to cater to your whiny sensibilities?
>first replies to my post prove my point
And this is why reddit is superior to Jow Forums, moderation keeps people engaged on a given topic rather than letting them autistically shit a thread with your memes and ad hominem, and I say this as a Jow Forums user that's been around since 2006
Jow Forums can't compete with reddit in terms of technical and scholarly discussion because everyone is busy shitposting, baiting, and trying to get a reaction out of other people
Meanwhile on reddit you can find subs with thousands of people who engage in a wide range of ontopic discussion, from professional surveying to knitting.
Jow Forums can't do that without memeing and shitting all over discussion
Very nice.
Hopefully one day even this shithole will be shut down and all you low lifes will be banned from interacting with normal people, forced to rot in some underground BBS until you finally go after each other in real life. The great purge is coming, can't wait.
And on Reddit you can't have any discussion because everyone's busy writing funny or witty comments in order to accumulate the most upvotes
You're talking about the Jow Forumsfunny, Jow Forumspics, and other worthless time sink subreddits
If you go to Jow Forumssurveying, Jow Forumsnetsec, Jow Forumsmalware, Jow Forumsdiydrones, or any other kind of technical sub, you'll verify they ban people for shitposting humor and memes, it's only an issue on non technical/scholarly subs.
>Meanwhile on reddit you can find subs with thousands of people who engage in a wide range of ontopic discussion, from professional surveying to knitting.
Yeah sure, it's a varied website, but that doesn't mean there's any real quality to be found there.
>visiting the subreddit for my University, just to see what's up
>guy talking about graduating and being lonely afterwards
>clearly a feels thread (tfw no more feels threads on /b/)
>I can sympathize with this, and so can a few others
>top voted comment is "lol ur fault" but said in a much more snarky, well written way, as if said by a holier than thou faggot who's never been lonely in his life
>second comment is a technical breakdown attacking the first guy's rhetoric, but not actually saying anything that would help OP with his issue
>entire reply chain is like this, very few actual helpful comments
That website is fucking shit.
>his example of reddit's failures involves citing cancerous cross shitposters from Jow Forums shitting subs with "feels" and other crap, and a very general purpose subreddit
Also see Try the technical or more specialized subs rather than going to your university's sub, that feels guy should've gone to a subreddit that deals with depression or getting your life in order, there are several of those subs.
What's this meme that there's good quality "technical and scholarly discussion" on reddit? It's just as misinformed and retarded as your usual 2000s forum, and it's even worse with the upvote system
Then go back there nigger. Remember to screen shot this thread for muh up boats.
It isn't a meme, pick a technical topic that is discussed on Jow Forums and I'll show you a better community with better content on reddit.
We can start with the cybersec general on Jow Forums, compare it to Jow Forumsnetsec.
>someone points flaws in muh based memechamber
>w-well, go back nigger! My need to be able to call people niggers surpasses my need for technical, ontopic discussion!
This reddit spacing nigger has to go back
Have you seen normies on Twitter? They are fucking vicious.
'Reddit spacing' is an unimaginative meme that perfectly embodies values of the memechamber that is Jow Forums, a userbase hell bent on finding meme differences between them and their 'internet rivals', no matter how ridiculous.
>Jow Forums can't compete with reddit in terms of technical and scholarly discussion because everyone is busy shitposting, baiting, and trying to get a reaction out of other people
Bullshit. I was here during spectre and AMDflaws, and g provided the breaking news almost instantly. Of course that's shitposting, but that's easy to spot. And a lot of people are wrong, but so are they on reddit, only on reddit they may be upvoted or just a popular personality that everyone listens to.
Here's the thing: You may think something is off topic, wrong, a shitpost or bait. Other people might not think the same, and you want to prevent people from seeing those things. On Jow Forums you quickly learn to not get triggered, but if you still are, learn to use filters.
>Meanwhile on reddit you can find subs with thousands of people who engage in a wide range of ontopic discussion, from professional surveying to knitting.
Discussion is very debatable. Lots of it is news, and acts more like a comment field for a news site. And there's usually a circlejerk of some kind going on. Communities are fractured based on opinions, and people post their generic accomplishments for upboats.
That said there's often useful advice/help on there, which you can find via search engine.
Yeah, but they're not liable for the mean things people say, the liability is on the people saying the mean things. Unless they just don't want to have to deal with the hassle of coughing up data irregularly to deal with other people's court cases, but even then, that's not exactly their responsibility.
I think the issue is simply that more normies will stay on the platform if it becomes a hugbox than critcs leaving it.
Normies tend to be a bit hypocritical because they're lead around by social engineering that often uses mutually exclusive principles to get them to buy into or buy things at the most profitable time.
>muh feelings goyim
They really aren't.
What they are interested in is arbitrary censorship of things that make them look bad or are bad for their mates.
But you can't judt go whitewashing, censoring and generally crafting a narrative without some form of cover story.
That's why the corporates are so PC - they can use it as an excuse to remove posts for whatever arbitrary reason they want, without fear of major backlash - since they have an army of useful idiots who will come running at the smallest sign of criticism.
Kill yourself.
t. mongoloid
You're a faggot, and i say this as a Jow Forums users that's been around since 2005.
you must truly be retarded to not recognize how immensely valuable the unfettered free speech of Jow Forums is. It allows for any and all ideas and beliefs to be dissected and scrutinized.
would you really prefer to spend your time on reddit where any unpopular opinion or post that goes against the norm is downvoted and hidden? You really should go back to r*ddit or at least stop posting here, faggot.
>t. fresh off the boat redditor
>2018
>still consuming mindless social media
Both have purposes, pros and cons