Reddit recently banned over 2,000 different communities, which prompted some people to see what their current rules on “hate speech” are. It turns out Reddit openly does not protect “people who are in the majority” from “hate,” which includes “harassment, bullying, and...
Reddit’s position on free speech — and its refusal to commit to an outright ban of hate speech — makes it one of the loneonline communitiesin the digital age. Many of its peers, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Instagram, YouTube, Microsoft, Twitch, Playstation, Xbox Live, Steam, ...
On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren’t able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the offi...
“There’s a reason why it’s not really done.” In response, Huffman argued that hate speech is “difficult to define,” adding that enforcing a total ban on hate speech is “a nearly impossible precedent to uphold,” and “impossible to enforce consistently.” After speaking...
Reddit's new content policy specifically bans promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and calls for posts to be personal and authentic to prevent spam. "All communities on Reddit must abide by our contentpolicyin good faith," Reddit said. ...
For a recent example of how such a scenario can play out, Josh White, professor of finance at Vanderbilt University, points to the flight of advertisers from X (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk purchased the platform and slashed many of the company’s moderation and hate...
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useful purposes for Reddit” and that “Users participating in the banned subreddits either left the site or (for those who remained) dramatically reduced their hate speech usage. Communities that inherited the displaced activity of these users did not suffer from an increase in hate speech.”[...
Reddit upvotes, downvotes and the karma score they feed into can be abused like any other social-media system to protect toxic behavior–it was only last June that Reddit nuked r/The_Donald and some 2,000 other subreddits for repeated hate-speech violations. (Of course, there’s a sub...
Google is not the first company to allow for military use of its models. InJanuary last year, OpenAI changed its usage policy taking away the restriction on using its models for military and warfare purposes. Similarly,Meta announced in November last yearthat it would provide its open-source ...