Censorship of this issue is seriously bad news: Either we expose the pedophile rings in our governments, or we are subject to their will - and abuse of power - at every point.
So, yeah. This is a huge breach of trust, and I hope that this story gets out there so that people can be informed while deciding whether to contribute to the reddit empire.
Forums censor their comments as a standard practice against trolling. But on the other hand, reddit is fully open and such attempts are easily found out by comparing older version to current version.
So, people were saying "fuck /u/spez" (CEO's username), and he edited that.
Deleting comments is fine - the problem is that he edited comment without explicit or implicit user consent or even remark about it. This is as bad as it gets for any media company.
If he was not CEO, he would have been gone by now with apology from the company.
From a quick skim, that seems like a very biased account. It leads with counter-arguments from the principles and does not include the more provocative evidence e.g. the triangular sign which matches the FBI pedo alert and they have cropped the images the redditors created to remove the actual evidence linking the owners of pretty much every business on that street.
It is a big deal, but it's not like it's anything new in modern society. Graphic images of war have been censored since Vietnam. So in other words, the mainstream media has been doing it for decades, how is reddit suppose to be better then the media?
He used his admin privileges to CHANGE users comments.
Like if you made your last statement and then Paul Graham changed it to read "It's a huge deal, it's never happened before"...so that became YOUR USER COMMENT
Censorship of this issue is seriously bad news: Either we expose the pedophile rings in our governments, or we are subject to their will - and abuse of power - at every point.
So, yeah. This is a huge breach of trust, and I hope that this story gets out there so that people can be informed while deciding whether to contribute to the reddit empire.