private property
How so?
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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Who puts data on a public website, owned by someone else, and expects their data to be private? Read their terms and conditions.
That.... utterly failed to address my point. Or even come close to it.
And then it got solid upvotes.
THIS is an example of... ah fuck it.
Yes but also no. In ancient times, people would etch public conversations into marble pillars. Those were indeed public, but someone owned the building.
Actual public bulletin boards are generally on private property (such as grocery stores) and it's up to the property owners to moderate them (taking things down after a delay or when it's inappropriate, etc)
Yes, hearing the reddit CEO guy talk about the value of their data was pretty messed up. But they own it, they created the website and did the right things at the right time (right thing being they existed), so it's theirs. They pay the server bills, and maintain the code. Idk if "maintain" is the right word when you make your website progressively worse with every update, but they do coding thingies with it, hence it is theirs.
Not really. If you want, you can start conversations on state-run comment sections of government websites. They aren't allowed to ban you. Just as an example, US politicians are forbidden from blocking people on their official Twitter accounts.
Everything on the Internet is owned by someone. Until someone comes up with a BitTorrent-type protocol for this stuff, anyway. Someone is paying the costs of hosting and someone is paying the costs of development. The person who pays is the owner. The owner can be a private company, a non-profit organisation, or the state. It depends how you want it.
For me personally, I think the current model works well enough.
Is it just the subs I go to or does this place go torches and pitchforks on anybody with a strange idea?
Honestly you wrote your post on a fairly polarizing way. If you wanted calmer discourse around the strange idea, you could have gone with something like "What are your thoughts about this?" instead of "Doesn't that seem rather fucked up?"
Edit: also maybe be less combative in your comments, but I'm starting to recognize that this complaint was not made in good faith.
Ah the accusation. The exclamation point of the enlightened.