Study: Banning hate speech from Reddit actually worked
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 had to create …
Tag: racism
The tech industry grapples with hate speech
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …