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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @02:50PM
Exactly. It takes more effort and time to address these questions than it does to ask them. The goalposts keep on moving and guess who gets tired.
An example form the Creationism debate is how the human eye used to be the pinnacle of Intelligent Design that was irreducibly complex, until it wasn't. The bacterial flagella then became the pinnacle, until it wasn't. Is the debate over? Did anybody win? No. The goalposts just keep moving and those trying to reach them will just get exhausted.