I don't totally agree with that. I was there for a while (over 3 years) and I never was exposed to the violent racists unless my curiosity got the better of me. Reddit itself didn't shine a light on the harassing/vile users and subreddits, but they were there if you yourself decided to expose yourself to it. For the subs: I didn't know coontown was a thing until the last couple of weeks when the whole FPH thing happened and people were complaining that it was taken down when other stuff like coontown were still up (that was the first time in the 3 years I even knew subs like that existed). Those places are truly f'n disgusting, but I don't see how anyone could have been exposed to them unless they sought it out (or other users sought it out and pointed it out to them). What I'm saying is that I felt that it was welcoming to everyone. It didn't welcome violent racists OVER people who didn't want to be exposed to that, because they weren't being exposed to it unless they went looking for it (for whatever reason). For users: In this case I can agree with you in a sense. When a community gets that large and is unregulated, vile users and horrible opinions are going to end up surfacing. People have a platform to say what they want and there is no fear of someone attacking you from behind your keyboard. In that case yes I think you are right in that allowing those people to say what they want placed the freedom of the violent racists for saying what they want as a priority (not their voice specifically, but that everyone has the right to say what they want regardless of content). I don't know how you could do anything about that though. That happens here too and I'm not sure censorship is the right choice. The downvote/upvote was pretty good at burying a lot of that stuff to the bottom, where once again, you wouldn't see it if you didn't seek it out. Obviously not always the case however.