In the comment, users Grickit and ImNotJesus sum up what many Reddit users perceive is happening with such announcements. The most upvoted thread on the announcement post about the policy, however, speaks to the level of frustration on the site. Reddit’s newly updated content policy contains stricter and more specific language about inciting violence - specifically against “any content 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.” Notably, the new policy applies to all content, including usernames and meme images. Reddit has tried stricter moderation policies before, with inconclusive results For another, in a crucial indicator of how far Reddit isn’t willing to go to disturb its uneasy equilibrium, it continues to accommodate the most controversial subreddit of all: The_Donald.
Why? For one thing, many users seem to feel as though the site has been here before. In fact, many Reddit users are extremely skeptical that the newly tightened policies will bring much real change to the site. And there are indications that such strict Reddit bans actually work to curtail violence and harassment on the internet.īut not everyone is cheering Reddit’s new administrator crackdown. Many of these subreddits, including r/incels, have served as targets for alt-right recruitment.
Reddit has banned alt-right communities before after the new rules took effect, however, administrators promptly banned more of them than ever before. The move comes in the wake of the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this year, which resulted in a previous ban of at least one community. Last week, as part of its recently announced recalibrated moderation policies, Reddit banned r/incels for violent content.
The community of “involuntarily celibate” men on Reddit’s r/incels subreddit has long been one of the internet’s darkest underbellies: teeming with violent misogyny, it’s a space where its members dramatically perform victimization at the hands of the women who’ve rejected them, members who view Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger, a self-identified incel himself, as a hero.īut not anymore.
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