{"id":477,"date":"2020-06-14T18:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=477"},"modified":"2020-07-02T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T01:43:57","slug":"reddit-is-finally-facing-its-legacy-of-racism-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/14\/reddit-is-finally-facing-its-legacy-of-racism-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit Is Finally Facing Its Legacy of Racism &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center called out Reddit as home to \u201cthe most violently racist\u201d content on the internet, citing a constellation of antiblack forums, or subreddits, that had adopted the name \u201cthe Chimpire\u201d and racked up tens of thousands of members before they were taken down that year. Reddit\u2019s content policy prohibits inciting violence, as well as bullying and harassment, but it has never been very specific about where the lines are drawn. In 2018, when Reddit CEO Steve Huffman was asked about whether \u201cobvious open racism\u201d was against the company\u2019s rules, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huffman backtracked at the time, vaguely saying that racism was allowed but not welcome. Then, last week, he made a company-wide announcement under a headline that included the phrase Black lives matter, and claimed that \u201cour values are clear.\u201d Reddit employees and users, he said, \u201cdo not tolerate hate, racism, and violence\u201d\u2014a statement that sparked a major revolt on the site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2020\/06\/reddit-racism-open-letter\/612958\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Reddit Is Finally Facing Its Legacy of Racism &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center called out Reddit as home to \u201cthe most violently racist\u201d content on the internet, citing a constellation of antiblack forums, or subreddits, that had adopted the name \u201cthe Chimpire\u201d and racked up tens of thousands of members before they were taken down that year. Reddit\u2019s content policy prohibits &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/14\/reddit-is-finally-facing-its-legacy-of-racism-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}