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Reddit CEO says it’s ‘impossible’ to consistently enforce hate speech rules
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...
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Looks at the SnapZu site and the super nice and polite way people communicate here. Hmmmm, seems like it can be done. Even though some sarcasm and cursing is needed. Either for the form or else to give an otherwise lame statement some linguistic holy-fire to sound better or more convincing. But I never saw hate-speech here. Not sure why, but my guess is the users are just like that and the site rules advice such good manners? :-) Or maybe I steer away from rubbish and thus never encounter it? Being in the right crowd? Who knows, who knows. ;-)
We've tried nothing and were all outa ideas!