My issue with Reddit is that when it banned r/FatPeopleHate, r/****town and more, this was while those communities were active. With r/The_Donald, they waited years to act on something that was very clearly a problem, and only acted after the subreddit was no longer active and therefore no longer profitable, after they had mostly peaced out to another site.
Is “We only progress when a money well has run dry” a type of progress that you welcome? Because that’s what they did here.
Oh, and something I consider of note: In the section on r/The_Donald, there are cited instances of Reddit’s CEO making edits to other people’s published comments, which I’m pretty sure isn’t very Section 230 of him. Regardless of the contents of the posts and who’s making them, when upper-level staff on a site edits comments like that and it’s not for the purpose of moderation but rather to stir shit up, they’ve got a lot of work to do to prove that they actually care about Section 230.
In my book, when a company leaves a hate-filled subreddit up because it’s profitable and the CEO admits that he edited people’s posts himself (not for moderation, but rather for his own kicks) on that hate-filled subreddit, they don’t deserve to have their doing less than the bare minimum seen as “welcome”. This is especially true if they try and come to the Section 230 bargaining table as part of a coalition that claims that it’s all about responsibility and ensuring user safety.
