"By late October, Huffman's policy team, along with trust and safety and legal, had solidified their tougher policy on violent posts. The new rule: "Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people; likewise, do not post content that glorifies or encourages the abuse of animals." It opened the door for Reddit to ban another extensive list of subreddits. These were mostly far-right-leaning and Nazi-sympathizing forums and those that glorified harm or death, such as r/selfharmpics and r/PicsOfDeadKids. … Also banned were r/europeannationalism, r/nazi, and r/killthejews, and a few sites that mocked, parodied, or stemmed from r/CoonTown. Animal abuse, harm, or bestiality comprised another significant subset of the list."
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Christine Lagorio-Chafkin: We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory, "All Together Now", p. 446. Hachette Books (2018). .
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