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post #1 of 92
10/17/12 at 8:02am
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Social news site Reddit will not censor "distasteful" sections of its website, its chief executive has said.

The site has recently been criticised over sections in which users shared images of, among other things, women photographed without their knowledge.

Yishan Wong told the site's moderators legal content should not be removed, even if "we find it odious or if we personally condemn it".

"We stand for free speech... we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits."

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post #2 of 92
10/17/12 at 8:09am
And in Deputy PM's questions yesterday Nick Clegg ardently defended the right of the Sun 'newspaper' to hold onto page 3. Glad to see there are people who still stand for free speech, freedom of the press etc, no reason why internet should be any different. We all have minority opinions and tastes in some form. We need to learn to tolerate distaste its the lesser evil.
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post #3 of 92
10/17/12 at 8:11am
Good for them. Censorship is almost never a good thing.
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post #4 of 92
10/17/12 at 8:31am
So it's okay to post pictures of unsuspecting women, even underage girls, but posting someone's identity is a bannable offense even if the information exists in public domain?
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post #5 of 92
10/17/12 at 8:32am
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Good for them. Censorship is almost never a good thing.

Almost never a good thing, I'll give you that. But when you take photos of someone without their knowledge or consent, then proceed to post those pictures all over the internet, I feel like that's crossing the line. When you knowingly and willfully violate someone's privacy like that, I don't feel like that should be protected under free speech. I haven't (and probably won't) look at what pictures they're talking about, but there are certain things that cross the line and I would think should be removed, that's one of them.
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10/17/12 at 8:36am
You make a good point I was being quite narrow minded, if it really is that intrusive it's up to Reddit to moderate it in good taste but it's their decision to make.
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10/17/12 at 8:49am
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And in Deputy PM's questions yesterday Nick Clegg ardently defended the right of the Sun 'newspaper' to hold onto page 3. Glad to see there are people who still stand for free speech, freedom of the press etc, no reason why internet should be any different. We all have minority opinions and tastes in some form. We need to learn to tolerate distaste its the lesser evil.

Shame Clegg wasn't so steadfast about University fees. I see his game. Force students to go topless in Page 3!
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Good for them. Censorship is almost never a good thing.

It's 100% never a good thing. I'm sick of stuff being pulled or gagging orders being withheld. It's like, British Footballers won a gagging order on the press stopping them from publishing information that would damage their image. Imho, since they live in the public eye, we ought ton know what dirty deeds were done so we can correctly avoid them and make sure they become penniless zeros. Thanks to Twitter we found out what it was.
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post #8 of 92
10/17/12 at 9:00am
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Shame Clegg wasn't so steadfast about University fees. I see his game. Force students to go topless in Page 3!
It's 100% never a good thing. I'm sick of stuff being pulled or gagging orders being withheld. It's like, British Footballers won a gagging order on the press stopping them from publishing information that would damage their image. Imho, since they live in the public eye, we ought ton know what dirty deeds were done so we can correctly avoid them and make sure they become penniless zeros. Thanks to Twitter we found out what it was.

So some dude sticks in a peep camera in the shower of a hotel (without the hotel's knowledge) and gets pictures/videos of people and posts them all over the internet, you that should be allowable? Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but that's an invasion of privacy and it should be taken down/blocked. I'd be mad as hell if pictures of someone I cared about were thrown about the internet with no regard for their privacy, especially if they did absolutely nothing wrong.
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post #9 of 92
10/17/12 at 9:02am
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And in Deputy PM's questions yesterday Nick Clegg ardently defended the right of the Sun 'newspaper' to hold onto page 3. Glad to see there are people who still stand for free speech, freedom of the press etc, no reason why internet should be any different. We all have minority opinions and tastes in some form. We need to learn to tolerate distaste its the lesser evil.
On the one hand good, on the other hand anything that could get rid of the sun...
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post #10 of 92
10/17/12 at 9:02am
Maybe I'm an idiot, but what's wrong with taking photos and posting it on the internet?
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