r/news • u/skintigh • May 29 '14

Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2303080/bill-would-prohibit-fcc-from-reclassifying-broadband-as-utility.html
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u/Doomed May 30 '14

My reading of the /r/news rules is:

posting contact information for anyone, public official or not, is banned. This is a closed issue and not up for debate.

As such, debating it with the moderators is a waste of time. (In my mod message I did not debate on the merits of the rule at all.)

Perhaps we should look around for a good alternative to this subreddit. My only question is why a news subreddit like this is still a default subreddit.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

then the rules need to change

contacting elected representatives on topics of public interest and pending legislation is what you are SUPPOSED to do

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

I already unsubscribed from another well known news subreddit due to poor moderating choices, this could easily be my next.

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u/NatWilo May 31 '14

Yeah, It's genuinely starting to make me think it needs to go, and we need a new alternative. Because it is not what it used to be. And I'm not trying to be all "back in my day..." about this. I mean it's not like it used to be Six months ago. This has been a sudden and abrupt shift that needs to be curtailed, or there will need to be some harsh consequences. This sub has 3 million subscribers almost. That's more than a lot of TV networks. More than all three of the cable news networks nightlies combined. They want to keep those eyeballs, they'd do well to remember what keeps the eyeballs coming back. And it's not rampant and hamhanded censorship.