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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, @07:05PM
The only solution to this sort of censorship is pretty obvious. Conservative leaning Libertariians must simply create workalike sites to places like this and implement corporate policy that forbids SJW types by having a Code of Conduct none of them could possibly abide.
Not a racist? Advocating segregation and concentration camps? Oh, My! Besides, doesn't the listing Conservative Faction already have this with Conservapedia and Speaker Bohner's email list? (And, your call for a sugar-daddy is cute, considering how money is the only thing that could compensate for such low numbers of Libertarians.)