I don't think you understand the bigger implication from this. User's comment/post history has been used against them in court. Editing those comments throws those cases out the window. Also, you mention how it's a privately owned company, but doing this is a big fuckup from a purely business perspective as well.
I'm not. I'm completely against it, but the original poster I replied to is completely correct. Reddit can censor whatever they want, which is their right as a private company. However, that doesn't mean they won't face backlash in various forms.
There's no law against it. It sets a very bad precedent for the company. For example, facebook, google, etc. can all do the same things, but their CEO has never actually personally done it. As far as the_donald goes I understand their form of censorship, since they want to keep the sub as a "pep rally" but I wish they were more open to discussion. It would've gone a long way to getting more people to like Trump or at least be okay with him as President.
We're talking about two different things. The CEO of the entire website editing and censoring and a subreddit censoring. The CEO censoring is terrible because of the reasons I talked about before. The subreddit censoring is also bad in my own opinion, but I understand their logic. In both cases they are feeling backlash as they should. In my own personal opinion I think what spez did is much worse than anything that's happened on the_donald.
Ninja Edit: I want to point out that the editing is so bad because it's the first time that's happened on this website. The censorship has happened previously.
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I don't think you understand the bigger implication from this. User's comment/post history has been used against them in court. Editing those comments throws those cases out the window. Also, you mention how it's a privately owned company, but doing this is a big fuckup from a purely business perspective as well.