It wasn't until mid-2015, when reddit had a female, progressive CEO in the form of @ekp that they took *some* action to mitigate the culture of hate speech that was festering on the site.
r/Incels: banned in late 2017 after an Incel user went to r/LegalAdvice and literally asked them for information on how he could get away with rape. The ensuing attention from the media meant that it had to go. r/Braincels, its successor, is still going strong.
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Deepfakes: superimposing famous female actresses onto porn. Banned 7 Feb 2018, the day after Pornhub banned the practice. Again, after media attention.
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And now, r/GunsForSale, r/DarkNetMarkets, r/Shoplifting. These were large subs with developed communities. My theory: it's about sanitising the site for advertisers. Others think that reddit is trying to transition to a "social network" model: https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/863xcj/new_addition_to_sitewide_rules_regarding_the_use/dw2rwy1/?context=3 …
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Even if reddit isn't moving towards a closed, social network model, they're increasingly beholden to the whims of advertisers and media scrutiny. They're getting too big to keep hosting the kinds of extreme communities that get them attention. r/WatchPeopleDie might well be next.
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We all *knew* that Facebook was collecting our data and selling it. The only surprise was just how much of it had been collected & what it was used for. Zuckerberg's protestations of innocence aren't fooling anyone.
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Just like reddit, Facebook only makes changes when it's financially expedient to do so. They moved to the "friends and family" algorithm probably anticipating this scandal or something like it. Web platforms are businesses first. They always will be. /thread
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