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View submission: Can we ban this extremely racist asshole?
It doesn't matter that you think that you and your colleagues are smart enough to distinguish "offensive" speech from "hateful" speech (however one would distinguish them, given that personal values lack objective justification).
The principle of the matter is that you are undermining free speech, and saying that it is okay to ban anyone who says something that people find unpleasant. The question becomes "where do you draw the line?" Upon whose value system will you determine what is hateful and what is free expression? And what about parody?
me and my team aren't going to be responsible for encouraging behaviors that lead to hate.
You're not responsible for other people's words. You have created an open forum where they can come to have discussions about what matter to them, and that is all. But by saying that you have the right to excise certain discussions from reddit, you are treating us like children and depriving redditors of whatever content you arbitrarily have deemed inappropriate.
There's nothing here!