Reddit Bans Nazi Groups and Others in Crackdown on Violent Content<br />Going forward, we will take action against any content<br />that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people; likewise, we will also take action against content that glorifies or encourages the abuse of animals.<br />Reddit, the online internet forum, has started to implement a new policy to ban content<br />that glorifies and incites violence, and among the first to go were forums for Nazi, racist and white supremacist groups.<br />But it added sometimes there were reasons to post violent content — such as with educational, newsworthy, artistic<br />and satirical items — in which case context should be provided to show it was not gratuitous.<br />On Thursday, as news of the policy surged through the site, moderators began to question how it would be applied in Reddit’s micro-communities, or subreddits,<br />where interests can range from hunting to Bible study, as well as in its dark corners, where people are urged to kill themselves or others.<br />We understand that enforcing this policy may often require subjective judgment, so all of the usual caveats apply with regard to content<br />that is newsworthy, artistic, educational, satirical, etc, as mentioned in the policy.<br />Reddit said it was taking the steps to clarify the way it has moderated posts in the past,<br />and to bring its policy on allowable content in line with its values.
