Reddit social news sites are sometimes a topic of controversy because of the presence of communities on the site (known as "subreddits") that are devoted to explicit or controversial material. Yishan Wong, former CEO of the site, has stated that "We stand for freedom of speech, which means we will not ban unpalatable subreddits We will not prohibit legal content even if we consider it disgusting or if we personally denounce it."
Subreddit/r/jailbait, which is dedicated to photos that are suggestive or reveal minors, is one of the most prominent subreddit on the site before it closed in October 2011 after a report by CNN. Controversy surrounding/r/Creepshots, aimed at disclosing or advocating photos of women taken without their consent or consent, takes place a year after the closing railway. The/r/Creepshots controversy prompted Gawker's exposure from one of the subreddit moderators by Adrian Chen, who revealed the real-life identity of the user behind the account, Michael Brutsch. It started discussions in the media about the ethics of anonymity and outing on the Internet.
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Subreddit terlarang
Jailbait
Reddit's staff initially opposed the addition of indecent material to the site, but eventually became softer when productive moderators, such as users named/u/violentacrez, proved able to identify and remove illegal content when they were not enough staff to do the job. A community devoted to explicit material sees increased popularity, with/r/jailbait, featuring teen provocative photos, selected "subreddit of the year" in the "Best of reddit" poll in 2008 and at one point made "jailbait" as the second most common search term for this site. Erik Martin, Reddit's general manager, defended the subreddit jailbait by saying that such controversial pages were a consequence of allowing freedom of speech on the site.
/r/jailbait came to wider attention beyond Reddit when Anderson Cooper of CNN devoted part of his program to condemn subreddit and criticize Reddit for hosting. Initially this led to a surge of Internet traffic to subreddit, causing the page to peak at 1.73 million views on the report day. After this news report, a Reddit user posted a picture of a minor girl to/r/jailbait, who later claimed to have a nude image as well. Dozens of Reddit users then send requests for these nude photos to be shared with them via private messages. Other Reddit users drew attention to this discussion and the forum/r/jailbait was later shut down by Reddit administrators on October 10, 2011. Criticism, like the creator/r/jailbait, refuted the claim that this thread was the basis of the decision, claiming it was the reason for closed the controversial subreddit due to recent negative media coverage. Others claim that the threads believed to have pushed the closure were made by members of the Something Awful forum in an attempt to get the piece closed, rather than staying out of the forum.
After the closing/r/jailbait The Daily Dot declared the creator of the community,/u/violentacrez, "The Most Important Person at Reddit in 2011", called the controversy "jailbait" the first major challenge to doctrine volunteering from freedom of speech site ".
Immediately after closing/r/jailbait, subreddits/r/teen_girls,/r/niggerjailbait and/r/picsofdeadjailbait similar are closed.
CreepShots
A year after closing/r/jailbait, another subreddit called/r/Creepshots drew controversy in the media to host women's sexual images without their knowledge. Behind the media's attention,/u/violentacrez is added to/r/Creepshots as a moderator, and reports appear that Gawker reporter Adrian Chen is plotting an exposure that will reveal the real-life identity of this moderated user. dozens of controversial subreddit and several hundred common people. Some major subreddit prohibit links to Gawker in response to upcoming exposure and/u/violentacrez account deleted. Moderators defend their decision to block sites from parts of Reddit on the basis that the upcoming report is "doxing" (a term to expose the identity of pseudonyms), and that the exposure threatens the structural integrity of the site.
When Chen informs/u/violentacrez about the upcoming exposé, the user begs Chen not to publish it because he worries about the potential impact on his work and finances, noting that his wife is disabled and he has a mortgage to pay. He also expressed concern that he would be slandered as a child or anti-semitic pornographer because of some subreddit he created. Despite an offer from/u/violentacrez to remove his post and leave Reddit, Chen insists he will keep publishing the article.
Gawker exposÃÆ' Â ©
Chen published an article on October 12, 2012, revealing that the person who operates the/u/violentacrez account is a middle-aged programmer from Arlington, Texas named Michael Brutsch. Within a day of published articles, Brutsch was fired by his employer, and the link to the exhibition was briefly banned from Reddit. He declared to Reddit after the article was published that he had received a number of death threats.
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong defended content that Brutsch donated to the site as a free speech and criticized efforts to ban Gawker links on the same basis. Wong stated that the staff had considered a ban on all link sites, but rejected this idea for fear it would make a negative impression of the site without getting results. Brutsch then briefly returns to Reddit on a different account and criticizes what he claims many factual inaccuracies in Gawker's exposure.
A week after the exposÃÆ'Â ©, Brutsch held an interview with CNN that aired on Anderson Cooper 360Ã, Â ° . In an interview with journalist Drew Griffin, Brutsch feels guilty about his activities at Reddit. He explains that he really likes the awards he gets from other redditers, and that Reddit helps him relieve stress. Brutsch also describes the support he gets from the administrator, stating that he has received an award for his contribution. Reddit noted that the award was to win the public voting for "Worst Subreddit", and stated that they regret sending it and claiming the account/u/violentacrez has been banned on several occasions. Brutsch then noted to Reddit that he regretted interviewing and criticized the accuracy of the statement Reddit gave to CNN.
Chris Slowe, Reddit's main programmer until 2010, said of the relationship between Brutsch and Reddit staff: "We just got out of there and let him do his job and we know at least he got rid of a lot of things that are not too legal."
Ethics outing
Gawker's outing of Brutsch as/u/violentacrez led to a controversial discussion about privacy and anonymity on the Internet. Such discussions include claims that outing, or "doxing", is needed to draw attention to unpleasant content that can be removed, while others claim that it hampers people's ability to exercise their right to free speech online for fear of public retribution.
Sady Doyle, writing in The Guardian, compared it with the alleged outsider Amanda Todd's outlet and suggested that such an event be justified, but that they may also focus too much on the individual without facing the underlying problem by engaging in "sensationalism" at the expense of cultural reform. In PC Magazine, Damon Poeter states that while he defends protecting anonymity on the Internet, he still supports Brutsch being defeated because he feels the various subreddits he is contributing as/u/violentacrez is a serious invasion of privacy, regardless of legality, and therefore may be justified to reveal his personal details.
The public outpouring of hostilities against Brutsch after the exposÃÆ'Â Â © asks commentators such as danah boyd of Wired and Michelle Star of CNET questioned the morality of outing as a way to uphold the online standard society. Some commentators have expressed concern that the public embarrass Brutsch to serve as an example for others is to legitimize online vigilantism and expose individuals like Brutsch to massive levies.
Beating woman
In June 2014, a subreddit called/r/beating a woman was closed by the Reddit administrator. The community, which features graphic depictions of violence against women, is banned after its moderators are found to share personal information of users online, and collaborate to protect each other from restrictions across the site. After the ban, the community founders rebooted the subreddit with the name/r/beatingwomen2 in an attempt to circumvent the ban.
TheFappening
In August 2014, Reddit users began sharing large numbers of stolen celebrity nude pictures, using phishing, from their personal iCloud Apple account. Subreddit,/r/TheFappening, created as a hub to share and discuss these stolen photos; the situation was called CelebGate by the media. The subreddit contains most of the images. Victims of "The Fappening" include high profile names such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. Some images may contain child pornography, as photos of Liz Lee and McKayla Maroney from leaks are claimed to have been taken when women are underage, though this is still controversial. Subreddit was closed by the Reddit administrator in September 2014. The scandal led to wider criticism of website moderation from The Verge SonyGOP
On December 18, 2014, Reddit took an unusual step to ban subreddit,/r/SonyGOP, which was used to distribute hacked Sony files.
FatPeopleHate
On June 10, 2015, Reddit banned five subreddit, citing anti-harassment policies. The largest of forbidden subreddit,/r/fatpeoplehate, is estimated to have 151,000 subscribers at the time of its ban. The other four subreddit are/r/hamplanethatred,/r/transfags,/r/neofag, and/r/shitniggerssay. Admin Reddit says, "We will block subreddits that allow their communities to use subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators do not take action".
Because of the ban, Reddit users flooded the site with images of overweight people and CEO while Reddit, Ellen Pao. Due to the decision to ban this subreddit, some users moved to Voat, a social aggregation site similar to Reddit.
The "Chimpire"
The term "Chimpire" refers to a collection of affiliated subreddit and websites that promote anti-black racism, including the frequent use of racial disdain. In July 2013, subreddit/r/niggers were banned from Reddit for engaging in voice manipulation, violent incitement and the use of racist content to harass other communities. Reddit general manager Erik Martin noted that the subforum was given many opportunities to abide by the rules of the site, noting that "the user can tell from the number of warnings we extend to the obviously horrible subreddit such as the r/n we go to in decision to ban subreddit with a lot of supervision". After the ban/r/niggers, subreddit/r/Coontown grew to become the most popular "Chimpire" site, with more than 15,000 members at its peak. Many posters in this subreddit were previously involved with/r/negro. It was created by a troll known as "EugeneNix" as a method to uncover left-wing bias felt in Reddit. One of the co-moderators, known as "European88", was later revealed as a free speech and productive troll, Joshua Ryne Goldberg, and was renowned for trying to act as a jihadist and inciting violence from them.
One of these subreddit,/r/shitniggerssay, is prohibited in June 2015 at the same time as fatpeoplehate. Amid Reddit's content policy changes,/r/Coontown is banned in August 2015.
Pizzagate
"Pizzagate" is a conspiracy theory that emerged from social media and a fake news website in early November 2016 that mistakenly accused a child trafficking ring involving Democratic officials and restaurants like Comet Ping Pong. The subreddit/r/pizzagate, separated from/r/The_Donald, is dedicated to discussing this conspiracy theory and has more than 20,000 subscribers. This subreddit is prohibited on November 23, 2016, for violating Reddit's policy against doxing, since users will post personal details of people suspected of being associated with this conspiracy.
Physical_Removal
/r/Physical_Removal is prohibited on August 15, 2017, for inciting violence. The subreddit name is derived from a quote by the right-wing anarchist philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who writes: "There is no tolerance to democrats and communists in the libertarian social order, they must be physically separated and excluded from society", and, by extension, their advocacy for forced deportation or physical displacement of political leftists from the United States. It is controversial because it promotes violence against leftists and other groups. For example, the user will make a reference to throw people off the helicopter, the method of execution used by Augusto Pinochet. Physical_Removal drew further attention in 2017 after the unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, due to ridicule about the death of Heather Heyer, who was beaten and killed by a car driven by right-wing sympathizers at the rally.
Incels
A subreddit established for "unintentional celibacy",/r/incels, is a forum where members discuss the lack of their romantic success. The definition of an incel on a subreddit is someone who has inadvertently gone at least six months without a romantic or sexual relationship, at least 21 years of age, and any gender. Many members adhered to the "black pill" ideology, which supported the sadness often associated with misogynous views that allowed, played down, or advocated rape, while referring to women as "femoids" and "sluts." The famous black pill posts include "the reason why women are the embodiment of evil" and "proof that women are nothing but junk using men". Users who are considered too woman-friendly, or who claim that women have incertom at the same level as men, are prohibited. Subreddit users intermittently either respect or hate "normies" and "Chads" for their courting abilities, with some admirable killers such as Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista 2014 assassin, identified as "incel".
In the summer of 2017, a petition at Change.org called for/r/incels was banned for inciting violence against women. Following the adoption of a new Reddit policy in October prohibiting incitement of violence, the subreddit was banned on November 7, 2017. At the time of its ban,/r/incel had approximately 40,000 subscribers.
Deepfakes
Deepfakes is a controversial subreddit that superimposes the famous female actress to a pornographic video, created using FakeApp, without the actress's approval. Such actresses include Emma Watson and Daisy Ridley. After subreddit was given the fame of the press, the video of the subreddit was banned from Gfycat and Discord. On February 7, 2018, the day after Pornhub banned the video, the subreddit was also banned.
SanctionsSuicide
/r/SanctionedSuicide is a subreddit that approaches suicide topics from a pro-choice perspective. This includes both discussions about suicidal ethics and posts that contain rants from Reddit users.
GunsForSale
In January 2014, Mother Jones published a story explaining arms sales on the site. The report shows that the seller is doing so to exploit loopholes in US federal law. Nearly 100 AR-15 is engraved with the Reddit logo as part of a licensing deal made with pages in 2011. This subreddit is banned on March 21, 2018.
DarkNetMarkets
Subreddit/r/DarkNetMarkets, a black market discussion forum, displays the participation of its owner, which causes the US authorities to request personal information behind multiple accounts. This subreddit is banned on March 21, 2018.
Shoplifting
Subreddit/r/Shoplifting is devoted to stories, tips, and questions for the purpose of shoplifting at large commercial retail chains. This prevents people from shoplifting from smaller stores because it is assumed that they will not be able to absorb losses. It also displays the images that show its users "uplifted". Toward the end of its existence, more than 77,000 people subscribe to subreddit. It was banned on March 21, 2018 for violating the Reddit User Agreement stating that the site should not be used in violation of the law. "
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Subreddit controversial
MensRights
SPLC List
Reddit's subreddit rights (/r/MensRights) are included in the list of twelve web sites in the spring 2012 edition ("Year of Hate and Extremism") from the Southern Poverty Center Poverty Report in the section called "Misogyny: The Sites". SPLC reports that "While some sites make courtesy attempts and try to support their arguments with facts, they are almost all thick with misogynistic attacks that can shock the hatred they express."
More specific claims are made about/r/MensRights in particular, saying that it shows anger "against programs designed to help women", and that subreddit "trafficks in various conspiracy theories", using moderator statements as an example of this behavior.. Outlets like The Huffington Post interpret the report that says subreddit is a group of hate.
At the end of March 2012, Mark Potok (editor Intelligence Report ') was asked in an interview if the SPLC has officially classified/r/MensRights as a hate group. His response was that "We wrote about Mens subreddit rights, but we did not list them as hate groups" and expressed doubts that SPLC would ever appoint a community as a group of hate, noting that "it is a diverse group, which of course does include some misoginis - but I do not think it is the goal [of the base] ".
Later that year, the SPLC published a statement about reactions to their reports, saying it "provoked an overwhelming response among human rights activists (MRA) and their sympathizers", and "It should be mentioned that SPLC does not give the MRA label as a member of the hate movement, as well as our articles do not claim that the complaints they display on their website - allegations of rogue rape, divorce divorce are destructive and the like - are all unfounded. But we do mention particular examples of misogyny and threat, blatant or implicit, violence. "
Doxing Incident
In April 2013, the subreddit is threatened with closure by the Reddit admin after/r/MensRights subscribes to collecting personal information about suspected feminist bloggers, and subreddit moderators advise subreddit members on how to proceed 'doxing' without violating site rules. It was later discovered that they had identified the wrong woman, and it was reported that many death threats had been sent to school and her work. Georgetown University confirmed that he was not the same person as the blog author after receiving a threatening message.
Spam rape report
In mid-December 2013, users from/r/MensRights and 4chan denounced the Occidental College Online Rape Report Form with hundreds of false rape reports, following a user's complaint that the form was susceptible to harassment because of the sender's ability to become anonymous. About 400 false rape allegations were made by human rights activists against college members, feminists and fictitious people.
Findbostonbombers
After the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013, members of the subreddit/r/findbostonbombers misidentified a number of people as suspects, including a 17-year-old athlete and a 22-year-old Brown University student who has been missing since March. A body reported as Brown's missing student was wrongly identified as a Boston bombing suspect, which had been missing for a month before, was found at Providence River in Rhode Island on April 25, 2013, as reported by the Rhode Island Health Department. The cause of death was found to be suicide. The subreddit is then made private.
Reddit general manager Erik Martin later issued an apology for this behavior, criticizing "the online hunt for dukun and malicious speculation" that occurred in this investigation-oriented community. In September 2013, a similar subreddit dedicated to finding Navy snipers (s) is prohibited by Reddit admin. The show was dramatized on the TV show Newsroom and The Good Wife .
Technology
In April 2014, it appeared that the moderator/r/technology, subreddit with 5 million subscribers, uses automated filters to remove submissions containing certain keywords, such as "Aaron Swartz", "Tesla", "Comcast", "NSA", or "Snowden". This eventually led to public protests, user censorship claims, and/r/technology lost its default subreddit status.
The_Donald
Subreddit/r/The_Donald, intended for customers who support Donald Trump, originally created for his 2016 presidential campaign. Due to Reddit administrator harassment and site algorithmic manipulation to push content into Reddit's front page using the "sticky" feature of the subreddit, Reddit forbids many sub users who are described as "toxic". This was after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman (known as Spez in Reddit) claimed to be silently editing the attacking comments made by community users. This has caused the term "spez" to be used instead of "edit" in The_Donald terminology. CEOs modify site algorithms to specifically prevent sub-moderators from game algorithms to artificially push sub content to Reddit's front page. In addition, the CEO introduced a filtering feature that allows individual users to block content from any sub. While this feature is being worked on before the/r/The_Donald causes issue, it has been suggested that it was introduced specifically to allow users to block them. Huffman refers to User/r/The_Donald's complaints about "hypocritical" harassment for their harassment of others.
Rationale free
In accordance with the site's policy on free speech, Reddit admin said that they do not forbid communities merely to display controversial content. Reddit general manager Erik Martin notes that "the occasional stomach of subdivisions like sub/reddits or subd/m/picsofdeadkids or reddits [sub] as part of the price of free speech on a site like this," and that it not Reddit's place to censor its users. Former CEO Yishan Wong states that an unpleasant subreddit will not be banned because Reddit as a platform must serve the ideals of free speech. Critics of this position argue that Reddit has not been consistent in following his philosophy of free speech.
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