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Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked

September 25, 2017December 10, 2021 Anthony

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

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The tech industry grapples with hate speech

August 21, 2017December 10, 2021 Anthony

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

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Reddit finally shows some backbone, bans some racist subreddits

August 6, 2015December 10, 2021 Anthony

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

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

July 16, 2015December 10, 2021 Anthony

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

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

October 3, 2014December 10, 2021 Anthony

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,

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

December 23, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

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

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