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Reddit Bans 5 'subreddits' under its Game-Changing Anti-Harassment Policy

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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 Friday June 12 2015, @03:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @03:15PM (#195421)

    I'm not so sure about that. Plenty of rich people won't rock the boat. They have too much to lose. Plenty of poor people will say some crazy things. They have nothing to lose. Of course most of those poor people don't get much attention. If they do, they tend to become rich. If they can resist the temptation to become corrupt, they become heroic.

    I get your point though. There are a lot of people who have to work for a living to feed a family. They think about speaking out in some radical way, but figure it to be irresponsible.

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 12 2015, @11:27PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday June 12 2015, @11:27PM (#195559) Homepage Journal

    kuro5hin's orion blastar is desperately concerned that I am making many bad decisions, such as that I am likely to go back to sleeping under a highway overpass as well as dining at the portland rescue mission.

    he points out that he has a wife and child and mortgage - he's mentally ill too, with the same thing I've got.

    but I don't have a wife and child nor mortgage. What I've got is a macbook pro and some technical books, also lots of good libraries here. What I don't want are others to make my decisions.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]