Reddit bans subreddit dedicated to finding the Navy Yard shooters

This is not really news. Reddit has always been against "doxxing" people, and you can't really collaboratively determine the identity of someone without doing so.

I suppose they don&#x27;t want to encourage vigilantism?<p>Either way, I remember last time during the Boston bombings when 4chan and Reddit users had purportedly unearthed a conspiracy that Blackwater guards were involved, which caused a buzz but later turned out to be an immense red herring.<p>As for troll havens, that&#x27;s always been part of their culture, so no surprise there.

Yet they won&#x27;t ban a subreddit extolling the virtues of giving women, any women, a beating.

Reddit is a business, despite so many trying to convince themselves otherwise. Businesses don&#x27;t like negative publicity. This is not new information.<p>After the Boston bonanza Reddit is going to squash anything that looks even remotely like it.

Post the Boston Bombing they apologized for mis-identification of people from the threads: <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2013/04/reflections-on-recent-boston-crisis.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.reddit.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;reflections-on-recent-boston-...</a>

So Reddit is responsible for subreddits when someone gets accused by a mob but weapons manufacturers are not responsible when their guns are used to murder.<p>I don&#x27;t believe this, I just find the serendipity ironic.

I guess Reddit thinks that sort of thing is best left to 4chan.

Edited: Public opinion went down on the Boston Bombings. Money was lost. In the interest of money, someone decided not to do the same thing again. Whether this was the right call comes second.

Fun fact: Reddit (&amp; the main culture) is a big fan of &quot;Free Speech&quot; (in the US sense), however reddit bans one form of protected speech: doxxing.

Reddit continues to play whack-a-mole with controversy, ignoring the fact that using &#x2F;r&#x2F;SRS and &#x2F;r&#x2F;SRD to police a social media site into political correctness will produce inevitable blowback.