Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong's latest big reveal: Reddit’s board has been itching to purge hate-based subreddits since the beginning. And recently, the only thing stopping them had been... Ellen Pao. Whoops.

I think this is the key. Where was yishan to defend Ellen Pao over the month she was getting hate mail? One SINGLE comment at the beginning of this whole debacle, not unlike the flurry of comments he has posted this week, would have shut a lot of people up. Instead, the hive mind was led to believe, by news articles and by redditors research, that ekjp was largely responsible for a LOT of unwelcome changes, all of which were done with no warning, and after months of complaints on a wide array of issues by moderators and redditors alike. If we believed ekjp was responsible, it's because that's what we were led to believe. We were purposefully led on. This is where we are supposed to land- betrayed, confused, and somehow under the impression that this whole thing was our collective fault. Fuck that.

The reason this site is where it is right now is the administration. Not the users. Fuck FPH, those people were some of the worst of society. I'm happy to see them go. And some users are even worse than those FPH assholes, and should be ashamed of themselves for their deplorable behavior- you cunts that troll endlessly, throwing around death threats like toy guns, and acting like a 6 year old in a tantrum over ice cream, free from retribution through the safety of your computer screens, in your bedrooms at your parents' houses. Suck a dick. However, the shitty way some subreddits were removed, the shadowbans, comment/post deletion, and not a single PEEP from upper management categorically makes this THEIR fault. Not the trollycunts.

Free speech, which is the bottom line here, depends on the idea that assholes and hateful people still get to voice their thoughts, even if it's nasty. Only then, AFTER they've had their say, the content can be judged as hateful or not, by the whole community, or a moderator in charge of a part of the community. The only way to block hateful, or otherwise unacceptable behavior before it is written is to decide what content cannot be discussed which is censorship. Free speech deserves the benefit of the doubt when it comes to content. When FPH is taken down, and comments are removed pertaining to honest conversation about what was happening under new anti-hate "safe-space" rules and regulations, I think most people were on board with getting rid of some hateful shit. BUT r/coontown is still showing up on the front page, I don't believe you. I don't know what's happening, or what's planned, but this whole yishan "snowden revelations" is too little to late.. Were all screwed? Easy for you to say, AFTER she was fired. If you had this information then, why didn't you come forward? And why are you coming forward NOW? After the fact? I don't believe anything I read here anymore.

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