
Moderators on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit deleted dozens of links and comments about immigrant gang violence and sexual assault in Cologne, Germany in an apparent attempt to clamp down on “vileness.” Moderators on /r/worldnews, a subreddit with over 9.5million
by Allum Bokhari6 Jan 2016, 2:13 PM PST0

Green Man Gaming is going to start telling you exactly what you’ll get for your money, after being called out on grey market business practices by the Game Deals subreddit.
by Nate Church18 Nov 2015, 11:11 AM PST0

Recently, Breitbart Tech reported on a reddit board’s censorship of a Rubin Report video about campus censorship. Following our story, the Reddit board that removed the video has clarified their rules and created a new subreddit dedicated solely to political videos. In a public announcement, moderators
by Allum Bokhari16 Nov 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

A video from The Rubin Report discussing the growing culture of censorship on U.S. campuses was recently censored by a moderator on Reddit, despite its popularity among users.
by Allum Bokhari14 Nov 2015, 12:44 PM PST0

Elizabeth Holmes, tech’s most celebrated female CEO, might be a fraud. If investigative reporting in the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Holmes is the lovechild of the tech hype cycle and Silicon Valley’s obsession with diversity icons.
by Milo Yiannopoulos27 Oct 2015, 3:47 AM PST0

Payday 2 producer Almir Listo defended the addition of microtransactions to the game in a recent Reddit AMA in response to overwhelming community backlash at a decision to do the very thing Listo himself previously shamed his fans for suggesting.
by Nate Church27 Oct 2015, 3:00 AM PST0

Tensions have once again flared between the administrators and moderators of Reddit, after an administrator accused a moderator of /r/videos, a Reddit community with over 9 million subscribers, of “mansplaining.”
by Allum Bokhari26 Oct 2015, 9:52 AM PST0

The executive editor of Cracked.com, Jason “David Wong” Pargin inadvertently made himself the victim of internet slapstick this week after he was temporarily “shadowbanned” on Reddit for breaking a rule just moments after he accused his critics of violating it
by Allum Bokhari10 Oct 2015, 4:33 PM PST0

A moderator of /r/Europe, Reddit’s largest forum for Europeans, is horrified that its users are discussing the issue of the moment — refugees and immigration. Reddit works on the basis of popularity. Users submit links or topics for discussion in
by Milo Yiannopoulos21 Sep 2015, 8:51 AM PST0

The Russian government may ban the website community Reddit, it warned, after a thread informed readers how to grow narcotic plants.
by Mary Chastain12 Aug 2015, 7:38 AM PST0

Voat, the link-sharing site which enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence as a destination for aggrieved Reddit users during the “Reddit Revolts” is now incorporated in the United States.
by Allum Bokhari4 Aug 2015, 9:11 PM PST0

How can Twitter improve its sluggish growth? The company’s stock plummeted after interim chief executive Jack Dorsey said he was “not satisfied” with current user growth figures following the release of Twitter’s Q2 earnings report on Tuesday.
by Allum Bokhari30 Jul 2015, 8:39 PM PST0

The tech media’s search for sexism in Silicon Valley ran into some trouble Tuesday, after a former Reddit employee who recently left the company rebuked the tech media for suggesting that her departure was due to sexist discrimination.
by Allum Bokhari29 Jul 2015, 1:18 PM PST0

The creation of a community code of conduct has led to infighting among contributors to the FreeBSD project, an open source operating system, after concerns that controversial “anti-abuse” activist Randi Harper may have been involved in its creation.
by Allum Bokhari23 Jul 2015, 2:15 PM PST0

Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman has outlined a new content policy that many users fear marks a new era of censorship on the platform.
by Allum Bokhari16 Jul 2015, 4:27 PM PST0

When Breitbart News published “Ellen Pao Out As Reddit CEO, Blames Site’s Users” recently, we received kudos from Reddit users for understanding it was Poa’s actions aimed at limiting users’ free speech in order to make the site more advertiser friendly that caused a user rebellion. But the business press continues to blame users, in articles such as the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Ellen Pao’s Ouster Shows Reddit CEO can’t Function under Mob Rule.”
by Chriss W. Street16 Jul 2015, 5:16 AM PST0

Silicon Valley Business Journal just reported that “Ellen Pao is resigning from Reddit after eight months of drama as interim CEO.” Having kept her Reddit position despite losing America’s highest profile sexual discrimination lawsuits against what she called Silicon Valley’s “boy’s club,”
by Chriss W. Street10 Jul 2015, 9:33 PM PST0

At the height of the Reddit revolt over the weekend, Voat added a note to their landing page confirming that they had been approached by venture capitalists.
by Allum Bokhari8 Jul 2015, 12:29 PM PST0

Since we reported on the latest Reddit Revolt yesterday, the situation on the web culture giant has only escalated. Over 1400 user-created communities (“subreddits”) have been shut down, representing a combined subscriber base of over 124,000,000.
by Allum Bokhari3 Jul 2015, 2:08 PM PST0

Censorship on the internet is unpopular and difficult. Information banned on one hosting platform usually surfaces on another, often helped along by the ever reliable Streisand Effect. But that doesn’t mean that some people aren’t trying.
by Allum Bokhari19 Jun 2015, 2:08 PM PST0

“PAO GET OUT NOW” shouts a post on the first page of the front page of Reddit. It links to a picture of Adolf Hitler with the face of CEO Ellen Pao superimposed upon it. This is now a common sight on Reddit, the influential “Front Page of the Internet”, a website whose users are in full-scale revolt against their administrators.
by Allum Bokhari12 Jun 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

When failed discrimination plaintiff Ellen Pao was appointed CEO of Reddit last January, many predicted that it would herald a new age of censorship on the link-sharing and discussion site. Those predictions appear to have come true, as a number of communities on the site (known as “subreddits”) have just been unilaterally shut down.
by Allum Bokhari10 Jun 2015, 2:07 PM PST0

The Guardian reader’s editor is investigating complaints against the newspaper after it reported leaked information that former Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps edited his own Wikipedia page and that of other Conservative ministers via a “sockpuppet” account. The claims were made by
by Allum Bokhari10 Jun 2015, 4:40 AM PST0

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman at the center of a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against an elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm filed an appeal on Monday of a jury verdict against her.
by Breitbart News1 Jun 2015, 8:57 PM PST0

Confirming the worst fears of users, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has told NPR that she does not want the site to be a “completely free-speech platform”. Her comments followed last week’s introduction of new ‘anti-harassment’ policies on the link-sharing site that
by Allum Bokhari20 May 2015, 6:00 AM PST0