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"Reddit Is Banning Nazi And Alt-Right Groups As Part Of A Hate-Speech Crackdown" (BuzzFeed News)

The Bear

The Bear

Forest Animal
Moderator
Oct 25, 2017
4,207
Seems fairly newsworthy.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasac...f-a?bftwnews&utm_term=.kykDj9dP5l#.hvXAzejVdx

Reddit is purging Nazi, white supremacist, and other hate-based groups from its site as part of a new policy change announced Wednesday that targets and bans certain violent material.

The popular discussion site, which has struggled with how to monitor and remove vitriolic and offensive content in the past,said in a statement that it had decided to retool certain rules and regulations that were "too vague" and ban material that "encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people."

"We did this to alleviate user and moderator confusion about allowable content on the site. We also are making this update so that Reddit's content policy better reflects our values as a company," Reddit told its nearly 542 million monthly users. "In particular, we found that the policy regarding 'inciting' violence was too vague, and so we have made an effort to adjust it to be more clear and comprehensive."
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Rest of the news behind the link.

Good news in my eyes, at least. Although it's not really clear just how far reaching this new policy is, and what type of reddits end up being banned. Seems likely that these reddits end up moving to places like Voat.

Lock if old.
 
Darryl M R

Darryl M R

The Spectacular PlayStation-Man
Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,724
So Reddit is going to play dumb when they start noticing that these Nazi posters are also constantly posting on r/t_d?
 
Adman

Adman

Member
Oct 25, 2017
62
They know how much of a shitstorm banning t_d would create, something beyond reprehensible would have to happen there before they pull the trigger.
 

UtterlyPerplexed

Member
Oct 25, 2017
828
1. About fucking time they do something. It took you long enough.

2. But let's be inconsistent about this, eh? r/The_Donald is still up, along with other deplorable shitholes like r/uncensorednews . Heck, the latter just celebrated a Nazi beating up a 15 year old Afghan child.
 
L Thammy

L Thammy

Spacenoid
Member
Oct 25, 2017
50,134
It's a brave new world. Aren't these the guys who didn't give a damn about child porn?
 
LGHT_TRSN

LGHT_TRSN

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,171
They're too chicken shit to ban t_d because they know A. those people would shit up other subs B. they would actually have to moderate those people

Instead they'll happily let them continue to thrive in their own personal safe space for bigots.
 
LifeLine

LifeLine

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
4,779
T_D was the worst and they're still around. Look at the LA Shooter thread where they thought the shooter was Muslim. So much racism, literally hoping for the genocide of an entire religion.
 
Ewo

Ewo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
44
Can't wait for this to mostly affect people talking about punching Nazis, and for the actual Nazis to just use dog whistles like always.
 
Psyotic

Psyotic

Member
Oct 25, 2017
15
Not sure how comfortable I am with this. Not necessarily the Nazi thing, but more the fact of how public discourse is coming under the control of private companies more and more every year.

Sure, it starts with Nazis. But with platforms like YouTube now struggling with advertisers who want nothing to do with anything remotely controversial, not just far-right politics, I don't think a select few individuals ultimately deciding what is and is not okay to discuss is too far off from becoming a reality.

The way I see it, there are two possibilities: Government regulations on larger entities such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. that force them to comply with the 1st Amendment. Or, breaking up large companies like the aforementioned websites to encourage competition and keep any website from having too much political influence.
 
Bluebot

Bluebot

Member
Oct 25, 2017
645
Japan
The popcorn from T_D being banned would sustain myself and my descendants for generations. Real talk, meaningless with T_D not being banned.
 
1.21Gigawatts

1.21Gigawatts

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,278
Munich
The internet has been a breeding ground for hate speech for a very long time.
Its about time the big players in social media recognize their responsibility here.
 
Sharpeye

Sharpeye

Member
Oct 25, 2017
354
New Jersey
Remember that time it took Anderson Cooper calling Reddit out for them to finally remove Jailbait and some other awful sub-reddits? Reddit is way too off hands when it comes to their communities.
 
Alimnassor

Alimnassor

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
773
/pol/ isn't nearly as bad as Voat. Voat somehow managed to make /pol/ look sfw. I guess because, it's non anon? But, shit, first post I saw on voat was a highly upvoted racial slur. Legit backspaced out of there.
 
L Thammy

L Thammy

Spacenoid
Member
Oct 25, 2017
50,134
Psyotic said:
Not sure how comfortable I am with this. Not necessarily the Nazi thing, but more the fact of how public discourse is coming under the control of private companies more and more every year.

Sure, it starts with Nazis. But with platforms like YouTube now struggling with advertisers who want nothing to do with anything remotely controversial, not just far-right politics, I don't think a select few individuals ultimately deciding what is and is not okay to discuss is too far off from becoming a reality.

The way I see it, there are two possibilities: Government regulations on larger entities such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. that force them to comply with the 1st Amendment. Or, breaking up large companies like the aforementioned websites to encourage competition and keep any website from having too much political influence.
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Honestly, I feel like there's kind of an inevitability. People are always giving their rights away to corporations and such, generally without even care enough to look at what they're doing.

But I also feel like the invincibility of the First Amendment is used to protect some awful stuff, and that's the biggest part of the problem.
 
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