By Minda Smiley

Online forum Reddit has removed five groups – or subreddits, as it calls them – that it says break the company’s anti-harassment rules.

‘Fat People Hate,’ a fat-shaming subreddit, was the largest of the five to be banned. It had more than 5,000 subscribers.

In a blog post yesterday, CEO Ellen Pao and other execs said that they “will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action. We’re banning behavior, not ideas.”

The move has raised a lot of questions around censorship. Some have said that the policy Read full story ›

Source: The Drum