“Most people who are discussing reddit’s policy change are doing so from an extremely naive, extremely simplified perspective. They’re arguing about things like what’s allowed by US law, or whether a policy is vague, or making broad emotional appeals, or arguing about who’s more offended than whom or suggesting other areas where broad banhammers could be applied or… well, anything that’s (relatively) straightforward and easy, rather than facing the fact that this is a gigantic, complex, scary issue with gigantic, complex, scary consequences no matter what path ends up being taken. There are no easy ways to talk about this. There are no easy solutions. Hell, as far as anyone knows, there really aren’t any solutions of any sort. But an open, user-run and user-moderated community with minimal admin tampering is an awfully tempting dream, and lots of people have tried to make that dream real over the years, all with varying degrees of utter failure.” - × × ×