Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits
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#2The other 82% is /r/politics
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#4Since there's no objective definition of "hate content", this is akin to them patting themselves on the back for outright censorship based on their own arbitrary definitions.
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#5That’s 71% true
Re: Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits
#6Since there's no objective definition of "hate content", this is akin to them patting themselves on the back for outright censorship based on their own arbitrary definitions.
The_Donald promoted the Charlottesville hate rally, people with white shirts and torches.
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#7So between Reddit, YouTube, and Google News, we’ve got a bunch of websites that have become unbelievably and visibly corrupt but whose business models are so difficult to replicate and navigate that no one else can do what they do.
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#8>The company also says that half (48 percent) of all hateful content on the site was targeting a person’s ethnicity or nationality. That was followed by their class or political affiliation (16 percent), [...]
"Hate speech" now includes your political affiliation? That's news to me. I thought it's usually restricted to immutable characteristics about a person (race, religion, gender, etc.).
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#9So between Reddit, YouTube, and Google News, we’ve got a bunch of websites that have become unbelievably and visibly corrupt but whose business models are so difficult to replicate and navigate that no one else can do what they do.
There are plenty of alternatives that lean towards freedom of expression at all costs. I think the possibility of building another thing like Reddit has been proven (even if less popular and on a smaller scale), IIRC r/the_donald ended up moving to their own Reddit clone.
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#107000 subreddits only accounted for an 18% reduction?
What the heck is going on with that website.