Author: Shoshana Wodinsky
A private chat thread released this weekend reveals that banning hate speech on Reddit is apparently too difficult a job to even attempt.
The news, first spotted by the Huffington Post, comes from a leaked conversation between Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and Reddit user Zachary Swanson, known as “whatllmyusernamebe” on the site. Swanson asked Huffman to reconsider his permissive stance on hate speech on the site, pointing out that Reddit’s rules already ban “violent” speech, which the site defines as “content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people.”
“There’s a reason why it’s not really done.”
In response, Huffman argued that hate speech is “difficult to...
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A private chat thread released this weekend reveals that banning hate speech on Reddit is apparently too difficult a job to even attempt.
The news, first spotted by the Huffington Post, comes from a leaked conversation between Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and Reddit user Zachary Swanson, known as “whatllmyusernamebe” on the site. Swanson asked Huffman to reconsider his permissive stance on hate speech on the site, pointing out that Reddit’s rules already ban “violent” speech, which the site defines as “content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people.”
“There’s a reason why it’s not really done.”
In response, Huffman argued that hate speech is “difficult to...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...