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EA’s defense of Star Wars: Battlefront II is now Reddit’s most downvoted comment
Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch one of its biggest games of the year, the multiplayer shooter Star Wars: Battlefront II, which is coming out on November 17, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. But the buzz before its release has mostly been about criticism over its loot boxes and progression systems. […]
Reddit’s stricter stance on violence bans more racist communities
Reddit has previously had success cleaning up its act by banning hate communities, and now it’s expanding those crackdowns. The social site has widened its policies on violent content to forbid material that “encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence,” and has used that to ban numerous subreddits that have celebrated racist violence. Some of […]
Reddit’s campaign against hate speech worked
Enlarge (credit: Reddit) Freedom of speech has traditionally been an issue of government and human rights. But more and more companies are providing platforms where anyone can potentially contribute some sort of speech, typically text. And those companies are finding that they face many of the same issues governments have: how to balance giving users […]
Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?
Enlarge / The final, community-built image stamped onto reddit.com/r/place before the 72-hour experiment was shut down on Monday morning. (credit: Reddit) Data stored and shared on the Internet is almost universally cumulative. If the history of Internet information were a word-processor document, it would include an endless stream of new sentences, along with lots of […]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian join critics of Trump travel ban
Amazon chief executive officer Jeff Bezos sent a memo to employees Monday stating the company’s opposition to the travel ban initiated by Donald Trump on Friday and offering the company’s “full support” to those affected. “We are a nation of immigrants whose diverse backgrounds, ideas and points of view have helped us build and invent […]
