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by laurent123456 3489 days ago
It's not really a free speech issue to be honest. As far as I can tell some of these sub-reddits, like the_donald in particular, are well organised and know how to push their posts to the front page (the rare time I open /r/all, their posts are almost always among the top ones, despite being very low quality content).

So it's no about censoring free speech, it's about making the idiot shouting his opinions with a megaphone on the street to do it somewhere else, or at the very least to drop the megaphone.

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Spez has already weighted that subreddit so it rarely shows up on the front page.

Why hasn't he outright deleted the subreddit?

/r/all is not the front page. t_d is not a front page default subreddit. people should not visit /r/all if they dislike seeing the firehose. or get gold and use filters and strengthen your filter bubble walls.
This is what confuses me the most. t_d never shows up on my front page because I'm not subscribed there.

If there's a significant amount of content you don't want to see, why are so many people choosing to look at /r/all?

People want /r/all to be a community of stuff they like, without stuff they disagree with. Those people seem to disagree with the idea of a content agnostic platform. How would those people feel if gmail stopped delivering ultra left liberal emails.
Weighted? No, they changed it against single subreddits dominating in general.
Nope, just t_d now. He completely banned it from r/all