Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked
A recent study by several universities shows that Reddit banning the worst of its hate speech subreddits did have a positive effect.
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The tech industry grapples with hate speech
Since last week’s Charlottesville protest against neo-Nazis/White supremacists, the tech industry’s been grappling with how to deal with hate speech.
Reddit finally shows some backbone, bans some racist subreddits
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!” “reason.” It looks like Reddit’s finally showing a bit of backbone, or at least some concern over not being able to attract advertising dollars. On Wednesday, Reddit announced … Read more
Reddit plans to deal with its racist content by… sticking a curtain in front of it?
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 all happened within the last week or two alone. On top of all that is increasing criticism of Reddit’s sizable base of racist, sexist, and … Read more
Amazon places racial stereotype warnings in front of “Tom and Jerry” shorts
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 pretty much the exact same ones that the collector-oriented Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets have had for years (as well as a few “Tom and Jerry” DVD sets), … Read more
A week of media racism, sexism, and homophobia: from superheroes to “Duck Dynasty”
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 anyway, especially since I’m tired of repeating myself in various online forums. To wit: Scott Lobdell mistreats fellow comic creator MariNaomi Last week, a comic creator named MariNaomi wrote … Read more