That's just the internet in general.

And yet reddit is corporate-owned, being hailed ITT as "the mainstream media", and there's plenty of evidence of senior Reddit moderators showing solidarity for the more criminal subreddits. Defending Reddit's dark side by comparing it to the wild world of message boards and comment sections is disingenuous: Reddit has a pervasive culture of "free speech" at all costs, and this is a consequence of it

>showing solidarity for the more criminal subreddits.

Like?

/r/picsofdeadkids /r/beatingwomen

I know the original remark was "more criminal", but are these criminal or tasteless and ugly?

Just the internet?

People. It's made of people.