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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
What a bizarre comparison, but sure I'll bite.
Starbucks doesn't have the capacity for this, as their logical staff levels and ability to police conversation is unrealistic.
A website however, can at minimum install filtration programs (much like CalPuck's swear filter) and not allow awful content to be posted, or improper subreddits to be created.
On top of that, there is a "report" button beside every comment and submission, and SRS and like-minded crews have been reporting content to the admins for years. Unfortunately, Reddit is set up in such a way that whomevers start a sub is in full control of it (so, it would be the same as if I had full control over this threads content, including deleting criticizing posts), thus causing many insular micro-communities where reported content goes to no one but the person who was likely posting it in the first place. Inmates running the asylum and all that.
On top of that, there is no flag system for improper subreddits, and reported subs are notified to high-level admins (like violentacrez), who summarily ignore them based on personal ideology.
It's a systemic issue that goes far beyond the userbase, and well into it's power structure.
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Just to be clear, are you talking about illegal content or immoral content. I feel like you are blending them together.
The material that is illegal is being removed as is the jail bait material. The rest of it is allowed under the terms of the site. People ignore the reported posts that fit within the site rules.
Not liking something and banning others from saying it are two different things entirely. And the Starbucks argument that you dismissed is quite apt I think. The technology exists to have voice monitoring installed in every Starbucks to pick up key words and allow staff to kick out anyone who says something that you don't agree with. They don't do it, because society doesn't work that way.
I have spent a fair amount of time on Reddit and never come across anything illegal. That makes me think their system works pretty well.