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173 votes
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Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
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Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet. I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does...
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet.
I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does it): You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald
The quarantine message says:
It is restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of the Reddit Content Policy. Most recently the violations have included threats of violence against police and public officials.
As a visitor or member, you can help moderators maintain the community by reporting and downvoting rule-breaking content.
Here's the message the admins sent them:
Dear Mods,
We want to let you know that your community has been quarantined, as outlined in Reddit’s Content Policy.
The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs.
As we have discussed in the past, and as detailed in our content policy and moderator guidelines, we expect you to enforce against rule-breaking content. You’ve made progress over the last year, but we continue to observe and take action on a disproportionate amount of rule-breaking behavior in this community. We recognize that you do remove posts that are reported, but we are troubled that violent content more often goes unreported, and worse, is upvoted.
User reports and downvotes are an essential way that Reddit functions to moderate content. Limiting or prohibiting them prevents you from moderating your community effectively. Because of this, we are disabling your custom styling in order to restore these essential functions.
As stated in our Moderator Guidelines, our goal is to keep the platform alive and vibrant, as well as to ensure your community can reach people interested in it. Accordingly, here are the specific terms of the quarantine and the next steps we are asking from you as a mod team to resolve this situation.
Quarantine terms:
Visitors to this community will see a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in to viewing it. This messaging reminds users of the importance of reporting rule-breaking content.
Custom styling has been disabled to restore the report and downvote buttons.
We hope both these changes will help improve the signal around rule-breaking content and improve your ability to effectively address it.
Next steps:
You unambiguously communicate to your subscribers that violent content is unacceptable.
You communicate to your users that reporting is a core function of Reddit and is essential to maintaining the health and viability of the community.
Following that, we will continue to monitor your community, specifically looking at report rate and for patterns of rule-violating content.
Undertake any other actions you determine to reduce the amount of rule-violating content.
Following these changes, we will consider an appeal to lift the quarantine, in line with the process outlined here.
We hope that this process provides a viable way forward to restore the health of the community. However, if this situation continues to escalate, we will explore further actions, including the possible banning of your community.
Please confirm that you have received and understand this message.
109 votes -
How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
80 votes -
YouTube is now rolling out disabling videos after detecting adblockers
122 votes -
Substack turns on its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ sign
89 votes -
YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
46 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
50 votes -
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
43 votes -
Twitch's new sexual content guidelines updated to include 'artistic nudity' after viral topless stream
45 votes -
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
45 votes -
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
67 votes -
Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today
46 votes -
Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Pierre Poilievre
36 votes -
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
27 votes -
Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
38 votes -
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
50 votes -
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence
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Black Twitter abandons Musk's X. The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a ‘digital diaspora’ in search of a new home
66 votes -
Stack Overflow moderators are striking to stop garbage AI content from flooding the site
45 votes -
Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
21 votes -
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
22 votes -
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
44 votes -
Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
31 votes -
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on
81 votes -
OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools
43 votes -
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
US Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
11 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
49 votes -
Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
12 votes -
The only way to rein in Big Tech is to treat them as a public service
18 votes -
One Twitter account is reposting everything Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days
34 votes -
'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
11 votes -
US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
31 votes -
Tumblr suffers 150 million drop in traffic after porn ban
30 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
56 votes -
America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
40 votes -
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware
38 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
35 votes -
Criminalization of encryption: The 8 December case
43 votes -
Imgur changes Terms of Service and will be removing anonymous and pornographic content
22 votes -
YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed
14 votes -
Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says
50 votes -
Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
12 votes -
X to collect biometric and employment data
39 votes -
YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
10 votes -
Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
14 votes