Today the community site Reddit finally banned several controversial forums, including /r/Rapingwomen and the racist forums associated with /r/Coontown. The problem is that CEO Steve Huffman did it by ...

Reddit has banned a number of its most toxic communities in its latest attempt to balance free speech ethics against ambitions for mainstream growth. In July, Reddit's new CEO Steve Huffman attempted ...

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Reddit announced Wednesday that a notoriously racist subreddit, /r/CoonTown, had been banned under the site’s newly revised content policy. CT had survived after ...

r/CoonTown, Reddit’s prolific, racist subreddit that has long skirted by unchecked by the site’s management, has finally gotten the axe. A content policy update released by Reddit CEO and co-founder ...

Reddit co-founder and newly-crowned CEO Steve Huffman is trying to walk the same line that got his site into this mess in the first place: Ellen Pao’s approach of “banning behavior, not ideas,” as if ...

Reddit has finally banned its most racist forums — but because they were “annoying” to other members. The site had received sustained criticism for allowing sites like “coontown,” which mock and ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman introduced an updated set of user policies Wednesday, which included details for how Reddit would be “quarantining” certain communities and banning ones which were particular ...

Warning: This post contains graphic language. In a place where anything went, it seems that more and more has got to go — and some of what remains is still exceptionally objectionable. That place is ...