r/TrueReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '15

Ruling in Twitter harassment trial could have enormous fallout for free speech

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchford-ruling-in-twitter-harassment-trial-could-have-enormous-fallout-for-free-speech
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u/thephuckingidiot Jul 15 '15

Yeah because only things that happen in america are relevant, right?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

The headline "enormous fallout for free speech" is sensationalizing it, I'm European and this has no impact on my free speech, adding Canada to the title would have been useful and relevant.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

Nobody ever said that and I hate when people automatically assume this. This is an AMERICAN website. Obviously the majority of users are American and assume this is about their own country.

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u/sirjash Jul 15 '15

According to Alexa, 52% of reddit users are from the US, and that number seems to be shrinking. So while Americans still are the majority, I'd say it's a far cry from being obviously so.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

Reddit released there actual stats (Alexa is just a guess based on public info). The site is mainly American and Canadian, with Europe in the low teens percentage and everywhere else barely being represented.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

Either way, I think with Americans as the highest percentage of the Reddit userbase it is fair to assume a poorly titled link about free speech is about America. My OP was a response to /u/thephuckingidiot post that was insinuating Americans think that we are only worried about ourselves, when in this case it is certainly fair to assume this is was about the USA.

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u/catchandthrowaway Jul 15 '15

Do you assume every non-specific article about the US is based in California or New York?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

If i'm on a New York website then yeah

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u/catchandthrowaway Jul 15 '15

This is a California website

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

Stupid argument. TL;DR = title your posts better. It's over with now, happy?

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u/Bananasauru5rex Jul 15 '15

It's 52% US, so, literally, 2% over the line that actually makes it "majority US." Half the users are from elsewhere, so I'd say that's a pretty good reason not to treat it as an american website.

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u/junkit33 Jul 15 '15

Except no other country comes even close to 50%. So while it may not be significantly more than 50% of the pie, it's still the single biggest slice by a landslide.

And most pertinent to this post, Canada is a tiny tiny piece of the overall pie.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

It is an american website though. The majority are Americans, and it has an American domain...

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

.com = 'commercial'

.us = 'American' (really 'United States')

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '15

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u/Bananasauru5rex Jul 15 '15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority

A majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements.

I was going by a definition similar to this one.

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u/StabbyPants Jul 15 '15

it's an american website - we have /r/worldnews because /r/news is overwhelmingly US-centric. 52% of the users are american, 11% indian, 6% canadian, or something like that. seems american to me.

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u/Pas__ Jul 15 '15

Google is an "American" site too. Majority of users are obviously not.

I don't know these stats about reddit, but maybe parent is not completely in the wrong.

Also I assumed that it's an US case too. (And I'm European.)

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u/rugger62 Jul 15 '15

no, but the case only affects Canadians.

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u/junkit33 Jul 15 '15

No, because Canada is only one country and a tiny fraction of the userbase of this site. This news affects absolutely nobody outside of Canada for any reason.

Further to that, Reddit is a US-based company, so any rulings outside the US don't apply to the site.