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posted by janrinok on Friday June 12 2015, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-will-not-ban,-much dept.

The Washington Post:

"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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @01:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2015, @01:51AM (#195598)

    LINK?

    Where is a link from either a top news site (not some racist or gamergate hangout) or a mainstream news site?

    You don't have one. You have rumors, rumors, rumors, innuendo, innuendo, and slurs.

  • (Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:54PM

    by K_benzoate (5036) on Saturday June 13 2015, @09:54PM (#195897)

    I found the Wikipedian!

    Tell me, how can we document ethical abuses of the mainstream media if we are only allowed to use the mainstream media as sources? This is exactly the mindset that has let the GamerGate article on Wikipedia stay so horribly inaccurate and biased.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @05:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2015, @05:47PM (#196200)

      I thought it was about "ethics in gaming journalism", since when is gaming journalism mainstream? At any rate, you need facts, not frothing lunatics thinking every single sentence from your target is somehow proof of what you've already made up in your mind. The articles you nutjobs are claiming as "proof" are just as coherent as the TimeCube page, and backed up by just as many facts.