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Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked

September 25, 2017 2 min read comments hate speech racism Reddit Tech

Photo by Eva Blue (Flickr / CC BY) Recently, Reddit’s tried to clean up the self-declared “front page of the Internet,” by banning some high-profile racist subreddits. (The fact they

The tech industry grapples with hate speech

August 21, 2017 3 min read Black Lives Matter diversity free speech hate speech racism Tech

The past week in tech news has largely centered around the aftermath of the Charlottesville, Virginia counterprotests against neo-Nazis and white supremacists, which saw protester Heather Heyer killed. Since then, various White supremacists&

Reddit finally shows some backbone, bans some racist subreddits

August 05, 2015 1 min read homophobia racism Reddit sexism Tech

Recent events with Reddit have made much of how vocally bigoted some of its subreddits are, and how half-heartedly they’ve handled such, often behind the (flawed) “free speech!” “

Reddit plans to deal with its racist content by... sticking a curtain in front of it?

July 16, 2015 3 min read homophobia racism Reddit sexism Tech

Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” has been under a lot of fire in recent months. Staff turmoil, an interim CEO leaving, and its former CEO/co-founder returning have

Amazon places racial stereotype warnings in front of "Tom and Jerry" shorts

October 03, 2014 2 min read African-Americans Amazon animation Media racism stereotype Tom and Jerry

News recently broke that Amazon’s begun to place a warning in front of its Prime Instant video streaming service’s “Tom and Jerry” shorts. The warnings, which are

A week of media racism, sexism, and homophobia: from superheroes to "Duck Dynasty"

December 22, 2013 4 min read A and E comic news Duck Dynasty homophobia MariNaomi Media Paul Dini racism Scott Lobdell sexism Warner Bros.

While it’s not all about comics/animation, the previous week’s seen plenty of racist, sexist, and homophobic stuff in the media that I feel’s worth remarking on