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"We will not ban questionable subreddits," Reddit's then-CEO, Yishan Wong, wrote mere months ago. "You choose what to post. You choose what to read. You choose what kind of subreddit to create."
But in an apparent reversal of that policy, and in an unprecedented effort to clean up its long-suffering image, Reddit has just banned five "questionable subreddits."
The site permanently removed the forums Wednesday afternoon for harassing specific, named individuals, a spokesperson said. Of the five, two were dedicated to fat-shaming, one to transphobia, one to racism and one to harassing members of a progressive video game site.
Unsurprisingly, a vocal contingent of Redditors aren't taking the changes well: "Reddit increases censorship," read one post on r/freespeech, while forums like r/mensrights and r/opieandanthony theorized they would be next.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @08:57AM
What the AC above failed to mention is that high traffic pro-SJW subreddits are getting trolled out of existence. While anti-SJW subreddits may occasionally see a retaliation, if you go into a popular pro-SJW subreddit you will see every single topic touching on the dividing issues heavily trolled, with troll comments upvoted to the top.
You see threads with people asking is there some other place they can go to to have a peaceful discussion all the time.
Some less popular subreddits with active mods manage to keep things under control, but popular ones need help from reddit itself if they are to survive.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:05PM
What the AC above failed to mention is that high traffic pro-SJW subreddits are getting trolled out of existence.
Considering the majority of "SJWs" I've seen on the internet gang up to relentlessly troll anyone and anything they don't approve of, I'd say they brought it on themselves. If they can't handle being trolled back, then they should probably stop witch hunting and fabricating drama over idiotic things like fitness ads and smoothie labels.