Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violent Content

By artappraiser on Thu, 10/26/2017 - 9:01pm |

By Christine Hauser @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 26

Reddit, the online internet forum, has started to implement a new policy to ban content that glorifies and incites violence, and among the first to go were forums for Nazi, racist and white supremacist groups.

The company outlined the update to its policy on Wednesday, with one statement in its help center and another by an administrator on the site itself, where a vocal community challenged the changes.

Reddit said it was taking the steps to clarify the way it has moderated posts in the past, and to bring its policy on allowable content in line with its values. “In particular, we found that the policy regarding ‘inciting’ violence was too vague,” the statement said. [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/reddit-violence-policy.html