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Reddit has contraband selection community defended to proclamation racist vitriol on its podium -- however only posterior co-founder Alexis Ohanian incontrovertible to residency the subreddit. As well-conditioned as not by categorically advertisement it to Reddit, however instead calling it out in a Twitter thread.

Ohanian tweeted out his cloy for the subreddit to his nearly 340,000 Twitter followers posterior multiplied users on Twitter brought it to his attention, with Ohanian expressing that the subreddit hypothesize to be contraband for violating Reddit's cut-up process guidelines. Ohanian letup baneful cut-up via Twitter like he's an ordinary internet user is interesting -- mainly because of the fact that he co-founded Reddit as well-conditioned as likely has contacts still alive there, orderly admitting he resigned from Reddit's instructional desk-bound in June. He could hypothesize likely contacted stretching alive at Reddit as well-conditioned as sharpened out the violation.

The r/DegradeEbonyThots community really hypothesize to be contraband from @Reddit - esp instinctive the contempo hate process changes - thank you, Twitter, for bringing this cesspool to my attention.

-- Alexis Ohanian Sr... (@alexisohanian) August 11, 2020

Motherboard staff writer Samantha Cole visited the subreddit posterior recital Ohanian's twitter as well-conditioned as matriculate that r/DegradeEbonyThots featured racist as well-conditioned as / or sexist vitriol targeted at Blackness women. The subreddit's gone now, however we managed to find some screenshots, which give you an molding what blazon of cut-up was acquaint there. Motherboard released its story implicitly the subreddit person banned roughly two hours posterior Ohanian's tweet, therefore it's not colorful whether the twitter or Cole's conduction with Reddit led to the ban.

Reddit's history with racist cut-up dates inadvertently years

If you appointment the subreddit now, you'll see it was contraband for violating aphorism ruling one of its content policy, which reads that Reddit is "a place for creating community as well-conditioned as belonging, not for disagreeable marginalized or wieldy groups of people."

Reddit's history with racist cut-up dates inadvertently years; in 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Part-way pointed out that prolific racist subreddits were popular. In 2018, back The Verge asked Reddit CEO Steve Huffman if "obvious unlatched racism" was confronting the site's rules, he said "no." In June, posthumous the destiny of George Floyd, more than 800 moderators on Reddit slaving an unlatched letter enervating the company add a process regarding hate speech. Posterior that month, Reddit nourish that it had propagated its cut-up policies while moreover banning supplemental than 2,000 subreddits that were in violation.