[buzzkillington]

>Also, it seems like with user sovereignty and decentralization, that there will be various objectionable or even vile communities is inevitable, right? [...] I imagine responding to tech blogs with, "yes, there are white supremacist sub-communities, but you don't have to see them if you don't want to" won't come across as a very satisfying answer from their perspective.

We comply with the letter of the law for the jurisdiction we fall under.

Trying to explain anything to a mob is pointless. We don't need to add ever more censors to what we see. The US government is bad enough, some hipster in NY or SF writing for a glorified wordpress blog should be as relevant as the mullah for Iran's most backward village.

[TulliusCicero]

Describing journalists concerned about bigoted communities present on your platform as "a mob" is certainly a hot take.

[Karunamon]

Allow me to add one of my own: Journalists' jobs aren't to share their "concerns", it's to report the facts. So much of the media's pathology is a result of the problem that news doesn't even try to be impartial anymore.

If you want to "share your concerns", the place to do that is an op-ed, or a blog post, or twitter, or something. But it isn't journalism anymore.

[missosoup]

The word 'bigoted' is getting thrown around all over the place in this post and most commenters, including this one, seem to have never actually looked it up in the dictionary.

Bigoted does not mean right-wing, objectionable, or things one disagrees with.

Bigoted means unwilling to change one's opinion. Which certainly applies to the hard left wing end of the spectrum just as much as it does to hard right.

Bigoted: obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, and intolerant towards other people's beliefs and practices.

If anything, so-called journalists using a platform to express 'concern' over things they disagree with is a better fit for the term. The job of a journalist is to report, not to preach their own brand of politics or dislikes or concerns.