Pictures of Jennifer Lawrence are not an idea. Any content is your bank account details. That’s information that should be protected. If someone said they believe your bank account details should be posted, that’s a very different thing.
Reddit, as a privately owned forum, has decided to allow as wide a content as it can legally get away with in the USA. The principle is at stake here because OP was asking if reddit should change its stance on what is allowed. If we are hypothetically discussing changing what is not ours to change, why am I not allow to hypothetically discuss the duty Reddit should pay to a human right? It is by humans and for human, after all.
“Should Reddit ban x, y, or z?” – no, it should not because it’s a human right that it has previously upheld. It has another right to publish what it sees fit, but at the loss of the greater right. If the future censor of reddit denies you free expression, then they deny you your right, which they are at liberty to do so but wrong to do so.
I’ll tell you exactly what bad things will happen should reddit become the judge, jury and executioner on matter of offense. Firstly, any gender or racial or religious subreddit that is called hateful now will get chopped – the small ones first, but all of them in time because someone will perceive “hate”. People, empowered by the thought that their hurt feelings are worth a penny, will start looking out reasons to be offended and, therefore reasons to have more groups and ideas banned. But thank God, Reddit soon dies and has to suffer no more of the terrible affliction of insipid central ideas that can only be agreed with.
If you think all that offends you should be labelled hateful, and should be outlawed, then you are too weak to have opinions of your own. They say nothing, you say nothing, I say nothing – we all win because hate laws decide for us.
Please name these countries that get on better with censoring laws. Who in these countries defines what hate is? I'm sure I can give you a return of 10:1 on countries that use censorship laws to enforce religious ideals.
It’s bad for a certain website to start banning content because it’s bad for anyone to think they, or another person, are able to decide what we can read about. Of course a company can choose what it publishes or allows other to publish, but Reddit shouldn’t start doing this because it rubs up against your and my right to decide what is right and wrong.