cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3320637

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s a fucked up website but if you think it’s remotely as bad as 4chan then I’ve assumed you’ve never been to /pol/. Reddit doesn’t allow the n word.

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      1 year ago

      Reddit 100% allows that. Some mods have it banned but it’s not a platform specific ban. Some user even made a bot to track how many times users said it in their comment history.

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        1 year ago

        It’s literally rule 1…

        Rule 1 Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

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            1 year ago

            Not sure what subs you’re on but I can’t remember the last time I saw that word outside of the r/4chan mod bot saying the comment was removed for it and they were quarantined.

            Considering I got permabanned for saying if we wanted to find out if the brazen bull was a real thing we could test it on child molesters the rule is very much enforced. That’s way less bad than the nword.

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          1 year ago

          lol even mods don’t follow rules on reddit and there are private subs where people do whatever the hell they want.

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        1 year ago

        I went on /pol and did Ctrl f + n word, got 7 results. Can’t say reddit is even slightly that bad. I’m sure it still gets said, but it’s very much looked down upon. Where in 4chan it’s just a normal word, and so is the f slur.

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          1 year ago

          just a normal word

          how and why

          ._.

          and they make fun of reddit when they’re not the right people to make fun of reddit