Steve Huffman says communities can set own guidelines, but racism is permitted on wider site as people have ‘different beliefs’Racist slurs are permitted on Reddit, says the popular social news and discussion site’s chief executive, Steve Huffman. “On Reddit, the way in which we think about speech is to separate behavior from beliefs,” said Huffman under his username spez. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules,” Hoffman said. Reddit’s approach to offensive behaviour has evolved from a position of actively banning users for hate speech to one allowing it under the guise of free speech. In July 2015 Hoffman said of banning hate speech: “I don’t think we should silence people just because their viewpoints are something we disagree with.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2018 09:56 UTC