Some of Reddit's most frequented as well-conditioned as barrelling subreddit communities are participating in a compiled criticalness this week to protest the platform's horror speech policies as well-conditioned as the current token brutality as well-conditioned as racism insecurity gripping the US.
The eligibility follows harsh criticism from hard-boiled CEO Ellen Pao, who said on Twitter beforehand this week that the company "monetizes white supremacy as well-conditioned as horror all day long." She moreover said Reddit should have stretched ago bootlegged r/The_Donald, the controversial pro-Trump subreddit it rakish last year for again actionable its rules essentially horror speech as well-conditioned as agitated rhetoric.
Pao was tolerantly responding to a post current CEO as well-conditioned as co-founder Steve Huffman tell on Monday, in which he said the Reddit connotation does "not tolerate hate, racism, as well-conditioned as violence, as well-conditioned as while we have work to do to fight these on our platform, our values are clear."
I am answerable to chroniker you out: You should have shut downward the_donald instead of amplifying it as well-conditioned as its hate, racism, as well-conditioned as violence. Therefore parous of what is hardship now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures as well-conditioned as monetizes white supremacy as well-conditioned as horror all day stretched #
-- Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) June 2, 2020
Protest deportment include moderators taking popular subreddits private as well-conditioned as banning the publishing of new posts for either a full day or for eight momentousness as well-conditioned as 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd, the Minnesota coal-black man who was sufferer by a hard-boiled Minneapolis token officer last week.
"The AskReddit moderators have incontrovertible to disedge posting for 8 momentousness as well-conditioned as 46 seconds -- the time George Floyd was thrilled downward by token -- as well-conditioned as we will lock comments on matutinal page posts," reads a negotiator roster tell in r/AskReddit. "Our materialization is that bodies recital this will take a moment to stoppage as well-conditioned as reflect on what can be washed-up to inspiritment the world."
Floyd's destiny has sparked outrage common as well-conditioned as led to large-scale demonstrations in every US wholeness as well-conditioned as over-and-above cities overseas. The violent token as well-conditioned as military response has in turn escalated the situation into a civic crisis.
Some subreddits participating include r/AskReddit, r/NFL, as well-conditioned as r/EDM, among others. It is unclear how stretched the subreddits will resist private or prohibit new posts.
"Reddit has harbored racists as policy for years /u/spez," reads the note tell by the moderators of r/NFL, which went private this week. The message is directed at Huffman, who goes by the Reddit handle spez. "It has led to contesting racism constantly, lagniappe by the kneeling that inserted Coal-black Lives Matter's message."
The r/NFL mods are tolerantly requesting Reddit implement a policy confronting bigotry as well-conditioned as that it cruelly remove "heavy participants in horror subreddits through their main register as well-conditioned as alts." If the company won't comply, the moderators say they "call for the resignation of Reddit leadership."
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