I never said (or even hinted) that I wanted anything banned. It's very dishonest of you to pretend otherwise. (but what else would one expect from somebody who likes r/the_donald.
Jon Stewart doesn't get to make Fox News carry his show unedited (or at all); and Reddit also has no particular responsibility to provide a platform for your fascist cronies.
I explicitly support your right to have bad ideas and to spread propaganda and lies. And you can do some on Voat and Gab and a host of other places that welcome your bullshit.
Personal property rights and personal freedom are critical to freedom; and anybody who argues otherwise should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Even (perhaps especially) when they're talking about the rights of those who disagree with them politically.
It's Thanksgiving, and today I give thanks that not everybody wants to shit on freedom and liberty the way you do, just because it makes campaigning simpler.
As for your silly argument about Snowden, he didn't engage in wholesale surveillance; the NSA's wholesale surveillance was public knowledge before his leak; and his leak was meant to change policy, not to attack a political opponent. As such, absolutely none of my criticisms apply to him.
If that's their positive contribution to the world, then consider me unimpressed.
I abhor the notion that it's acceptable to hack the private communications of a political opponent, and publish them wholesale. I hate that people have decided it's somehow normal (or worse, noble) to engage in such chicanery because it was politically expedient. It's entirely different than other forms of leaks.
Wholesale surveillance is a terrible idea no matter who is doing it.
It's really effective propaganda, because most folks aren't clever enough to realize that the lack of countervailing scandal is solely because the other party didn't do any hacking... but it's a terrible precedent, and anybody who participated in it should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
Anybody who praises it should borrow a moral compass.
/r/The_Donald is a place where a mix of trolls, fascists, and white nationalists get riled up, and work to start a horrifying new chapter in history.
Fascists and white nationalists defend it by claiming it's just clownish fun. (which, unamusingly, is EXACTLY the same explanation given by the supporters of fascism in Italy, and Russia, and Germany). Trolls really are having fun, they just don't give a fuck.
It's propaganda. It's gross. All of the donald's loser readers and writers have the right to share their bad ideas; but they have no particular right to say it on Reddit.
Jon Stewart doesn't get to make Fox News carry his show unedited (or at all); and Reddit also has no particular responsibility to provide a platform for your fascist cronies.
I explicitly support your right to have bad ideas and to spread propaganda and lies. And you can do some on Voat and Gab and a host of other places that welcome your bullshit.