r/PAOT

154 archived posts · Jun 2015 – Aug 2024

People's Army Opposing Tyranny

r/PAOT

People's Army Opposing Tyranny Just the facts Ma'am

Created Jun 28, 2015

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People's Army Opposing Tyranny

Just the facts Ma'am

We're here to document and discuss:

How u/ekjp is changing reddit
The merits of these changes
Tools to document and fight this change
Reddit's reaction
Media's reaction
Calls to action and other organizing tactics
"Safe spaces" as it applies to reddit
"Free speech" as it applies to reddit

The view of the mods is that Pao should abdicate power but you are not required to hold this viewpoint to participate. Dissent is welcome so long as it follows our rules.

rules

No rulebreaking content
No collectivism (gender, sex, race etc..)
All statements of fact require citation
No profanity, or obscenity unless quoted

Alternately, See: r/ellenpaoinaction

https://modlog.github.io/#/r/paot

It's not our site's goal to be a completely free-speech platform

u/ekjp

Yes, you bring up a good point. There's a great John Gilmore quote about this "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

The internet is a resourceful platform, but we as humans are also pretty damn resourceful. One way or another, just like Chinese activists circumvent the "Great Firewall" every day, people will continue to find ways to keep the internet going and keep getting to the ideas they want to express and consume.

— u/kn0thing

I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug – that we should create communications technologies that allow people to send whatever they like to each other. And when people put their thumbs on the scale and try to say what can and can’t be sent, we should fight back – both politically through protest and technologically through software like Tor

— u/AaronSw

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it. Not because that's the law in the United States - because as many people have pointed out, privately-owned forums are under no obligation to uphold it - but because we believe in that ideal independently, and that's what we want to promote on our platform. We are clarifying that now because in the past it wasn't clear, and (to be honest) in the past we were not completely independent and there were other pressures acting on reddit. Now it's just reddit, and we serve the community, we serve the ideals of free speech, and we hope to ultimately be a universal platform for human discourse (cat pictures are a form of discourse).

— u/yishan

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