• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Ellen Pao was OK, she just wanted to prevent hate speech, the campaign against her was completely uncalled for. I don’t think it was planned for her to fail.
    The result was that the reddit clone “Voat” was created as a non censored alternative, and of course that was toxic as hell.

    Essentially what Pao did was to keep reddit within the law and being responsible. And prevent moronic subs like one that was based on illegal revenge-porn!!
    By far the most Lemmy instances are run by similar standards to what Pao wanted. Pao was demonized for no reason.

    Pao was essentially the antithesis to what X is to Twitter.

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      19 hours ago

      This is a whitewashing of the events and makes no mention of them deleting any comments critical of her, firing well liked employees like Victoria who ran AMAs, banning many subs for “hate speech” while keeping places like The_Donald at the top of reddit search results and untouched even though these users continuously spread hate speech and brigaded the rest of the site. Most of the subs went dark in protest of her actions and it wasn’t because a bunch of incels got banned. Voat being a site full of Nazis is entirely inconsequential because Nazis love nothing more than luring in and indoctrinating ‘outcasts’ and do the same on every other site too.