Today the community site Reddit finally banned several controversial forums, including /r/Rapingwomen and the racist forums associated with /r/Coontown. The problem is that CEO Steve Huffman did it by ...

Reddit has banned a number of its most toxic communities in its latest attempt to balance free speech ethics against ambitions for mainstream growth. In July, Reddit's new CEO Steve Huffman attempted ...

r/CoonTown, Reddit’s prolific, racist subreddit that has long skirted by unchecked by the site’s management, has finally gotten the axe. A content policy update released by Reddit CEO and co-founder ...

On Wednesday, Reddit issued an update to its official content policy and, in the process, banned a handful of racist communities the social news site's management deemed harmful. Featured Video “Our ...

Reddit has finally banned its most racist forums — but because they were “annoying” to other members. The site had received sustained criticism for allowing sites like “coontown,” which mock and ...

Reddit’s new chief alien, Steve Huffman, announced a vaguely worded set of new content guidelines yesterday afternoon. The general takeaway? Bad stuff is bad and should be banned. The subtext? If ...

CoonTown, a vile subsection on the popular online forum Reddit dedicated to “race realism” and “the foundation of a proper society that lacks the negro plague,” is alive and growing in the wake of a ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman introduced an updated set of user policies Wednesday, which included details for how Reddit would be “quarantining” certain communities and banning ones which were particular ...