Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Twitter and Reddit Take a Stand<br />Reddit Bans Nazis, and Honolulu Bans Distracted Walking<br />Farhad: Russia Today wasn’t the only thing that was banned this week.<br />Each Friday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at , review the week’s news, offering analysis<br />and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry.<br />Perhaps Reddit, which has raised significant venture financing over the past two years, is trying<br />to present a more polished view of itself in hopes of one day being acquired or going public.<br />That has led Reddit down some dark paths, like refusing to ban outright racist groups<br />and topic pages, not to mention dealing with an entire community devoted to “creepshots” of underage women.<br />Anyway, I’ll be in Washington and New York over the next few weeks, so maybe I’ll get lucky and it’ll be snowing.<br />Farhad: Meanwhile the city of Honolulu banned looking at your phone while walking.<br />The two news sites are Russia Today and Sputnik, both of which are backed by the Kremlin and are accused of furthering Russian propaganda worldwide.
