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caelum19  ·  3453 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Voat hosting reddit's exiles

    I still wonder why the "censorpship" of /r/fatpeoplehate make so many more people angry than /r/jailbait "censorship's"

Why the quotes around censorship?

I think there are a few reasons:

A bunch of the angry group didn't care about censorship until something they like got censored

Being associated with fat people haters is a lot better than being associated with pedophiles.

Posting sexualish pictures of other people feels more like a violation of their privacy.

The subreddit's title, maybe most of the posts were legal but you can understand banning a subreddit if it puts the site as a whole at even the slightest danger.

/r/FPH was a hate-based subreddit, and I think much bigger. So it's users are a lot more likely to backlash and influence outsiders about whether or not the censorship was justified.