"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: 2) by tathra on Monday June 15 2015, @07:04PM
ah, just to make sure we're using the same definition, i defined "christian" as "one who follows the teachings of christ", but you seem to be using the definition "one who attends a christian denomination church" (which would be Christian, big C); they're the same word but vastly different groups. the rest of the bible doesn't apply to the former definition, the one i stated i was using, so in addition to using a strawman, you're equivocating.