Reddit Bans Subreddits about Making Fun of Fat People, Neogaf, and others.

[Somekindofgold]

Sure it is.

Pao

Mate...Pao is not the person you should be looking towards to understand what Reddit was meant to be. You should be looking at its actual creators, not the idiot brought in who spits on the ideals of the sites creators. The idiot who had nothing to do with Reddit until 2013.

Aaron Swartz is spinning so fast in his grave right now you could power half of north america with his rapidly rotating corpse.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Well, except for the subs he banned for basically the same thing, you mean.

 

[Malpraxis]

From the perspective of a physician working in a country with socialised healthcare:

Fat people deserve to be brought to light, publicly condemned, and rehabilitated. They're addicts who continue to indulge in their favourite drug. And I don't know where you are from, but here the costs of treating the complications of being fat, comes out of the taxpayers money. And heart attacks are really expensive to treat. Quadruple bypasses are too. For those who end up with diabetes, the cost of complications is enormous. Don't just think of a little insulin, but a generation of people with amputations, kidney failure and blindness.

At least smokers pay for their treatment indirectly with high taxes.

In the interest of public healthcare, being fat should be just as politically incorrect as smoking crack. Problem is, there's too many of them, and they vote, and buy things, so that change will probably come in a generation or so, when they become unsubstantially expensive to treat.

 

[Pax Romana]

Also hilarious how they banned a sub Reddit whalewatching that was about actual whales that live in the sea.

Incorrect. Just look up old archives of it. There were pictures of fat people to make fun of.

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I think it's hilariously bad of reddit that they would ban fatpeoplehate, which had a strict anti-harassment policy and not subs like shitredditsays, which actually encourage harassment in various ways. But then they're connected to the mods that are cozy with the admins, so their harassment is alright.

That was what I had heard second hand so I'll take your word for it. As I said I never frequented Reddit. Apologies for the mistake.

 

[Silvanus]

From the perspective of a physician working in a country with socialised healthcare:

Fat people deserve to be brought to light, publicly condemned, and rehabilitated.

Is there any compelling evidence that public shame is actually particularly effective in compelling people to change behaviour?

This is quite aside from moral issues, of course.

In the interest of public healthcare, being fat should be just as politically incorrect as smoking crack. Problem is, there's too many of them, and they vote, and buy things, so that change will probably come in a generation or so, when they become unsubstantially expensive to treat.

Lots of things make people more costly to treat. Stupidity, for another. Should we make all these correlating factors sociLly unacceptable, or just the one?

I don't know why people from 'my side' always are happy to accept and correct their own mistakes. Makes it hard for me to stay neutral and in the middle of these things.

This sounds like something an actor would say in a Party Political Broadcast.

 

[IceForce]

I'm pretty sure mocking another user on here while in a user group is against the rules and can get that person moderated if it is reported.

"if it is reported" is the key point here. Moderators can't see into private usergroups anymore, and private usergroups are almost always comprised of groups of friends, - friends who are unlikely to report each other.

So, without a shadow of a doubt, "mocking" still happens, it just never gets reported.