Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits

Said differently: &quot;Reddit banned nearly 7,000 subreddits, but left alone the ones that contribute 82% of hate content.&quot;<p>That seems like a dismal result, practically an admission that many of the bans were unjustified and&#x2F;or subs that should have been banned were not.

Anyone remember them saying in their ToS that hate speech is okay as long as it isn&#x27;t against a group considered to be the minority?

&gt;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), [...]<p>&quot;Hate speech&quot; now includes your political affiliation? That&#x27;s news to me. I thought it&#x27;s usually restricted to immutable characteristics about a person (race, religion, gender, etc.).

Since there&#x27;s no objective definition of &quot;hate content&quot;, this is akin to them patting themselves on the back for outright censorship based on their own arbitrary definitions.

Just imagine what they could accomplish if they just shut down the site!

7000 subreddits only accounted for an 18% reduction?<p>What the heck is going on with that website.

More accurately would be to say Reddit reports 18% of hate content moved to a different platform. This would be akin to saying &quot;salmon30salmon saw a reduction in hate content when he stopped attending hate group meetings&quot;.<p>While I appreciate any attempt to reduce hate, it isn&#x27;t really something to cheer in this case. The goal is to reduce hate, and pushing people further into the fringes doesn&#x27;t do that. Now instead of being part of a community that has hate, but also positive information, the hate groups are going to be forced into a more focused hate forum. It is a means to further push people to the fringes which could further radicalize folks.<p>Essentially, Reddit etc. doesn&#x27;t make people hate more, the internet just exposes the hate that already existed. It is part of a larger cultural problem. People don&#x27;t generally become hateful after seeing 12 memes, they are raised in an environment that breeds hate. Banning the subreddits _feels_ good, but it is not a solution to the core problem.

I actually noticed this over the past month or so. It made a precipitous difference.

The other 82% is &#x2F;r&#x2F;politics

Reddit hasn&#x27;t been taken over by communist SJWs, they&#x27;re just preparing for an IPO. If you&#x27;re unhappy that participating in capitalism usually entails some kind of unaccountable censorship you should probably revise some of your pre-existing beliefs about capitalism.

We could banish 100% of hate if we just banished people entirely.

Will they an Vampires for hating the Sun?

You

there is still plenty of hate content there, mostly addressed against Trump supporters and anyone who disagrees with BLM agenda and violence. it&#x27;s a radical left site.

How much of that hate content was expressing politically inconvenient facts?

Bullshit. Hardly 100 were active of the 7k.<p>And they say hate speech against majority (which spez implied as straight white men) is not &#x27;hate speech&#x27;.

So 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.