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The policy update was posted by Reddit's AutoModerator bot, which intervened in a conversation on the JusticeServed channel.
"We can no longer allow any posts, comments, or other content that shows a POC [person of color] as the aggressor," the publication warned. Corresponding videos, news and personal stories, photos, police reports, and "any other form of media" will be considered "hate speech and/or harassment."
The announcement itself then disappeared from Reddit. It is nowhere to be found on JusticeServed and other accounts, but still available on the web archive.
[Ed. note: The notice has also been scrubbed from the link above but is reproduced below]
The screengrab of the now-removed post by Reddit.
"In your pursuit of anti-racism, you've managed to become racists yourselves," one person said, while others called the policy "reverse racism."
Not surprisingly, some found the blacklisting announcement to be rather Orwellian. "Is this satire? It has got to be right? Literally big brother didn't go to this extent," a Reddit user wrote.
"We can tell our kids we remember a time when they started shutting down the truth," another said.
Some enraged netizens called on everyone to stop using the "sinking ship" Reddit and migrate to alternative platforms.
Reddit has been on a crusade against 'hateful' content in recent weeks, amid the waves of protests against racism sparked by the death of George Floyd. It wiped out multiple accounts, among them the subreddit 'The_Donald', believed to be the most popular community of Donald Trump supporters.
The website's executives accused the group of targeting and harassing individuals and repeatedly breaking its rules of conduct. Some, including YouTuber and managing editor of Human Events Ian Miles Cheong, said the company was using the mass ban to cover up a bias against the community of Trump supporters.
Reader Comments
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Whats all this stupidity of catering to black people anyway? The way people and companies are acting, you'd think slavery just ended a year ago.. Sure there's racism in society, in ALL races. But what they are doing won't address racism. It'll just put black people above white people in an unhealthy way. Then it will be white people who are oppressed. Just like it is now in South Africa.
What appears to be happening is the weights on the scales are being swapped, so instead of adding weight to the marginalized side, they're taking weight from one side to give to the other to reverse the roles. Somehow they think this is going to work out for them, but it's not. I feel like Antifa and BLM (the movement, not the idea) are merely being tolerated, will soon be rejected hardcore, and we're going to swing far right, which I also don't want!
The biggest problem right now is the Democrats priming everyone to believe that the next election will be stolen by Trump. They are instigating violence. They expect us to kill each other off and they may succeed in that endeavor.
The internet, as we know it, is dying.
If there are roving bands of antifascists a year from now shooting people on sight, I will hardly be surprised. But I also won't be surprised if a lot of protesters get killed between now and then.
I think civilian deaths will be a record number this year. Whoever wins! If there are any winners at all.