After The Proliferation Of The New Zealand Shooting Video, Reddit Bans Two Channels Showing Human Death
Reddit banned the group, r/watchpeopledie, on Friday morning after users shared links to videos featuring the Christchurch mosque massacre.
Reddit’s decision to remove r/gore and the seven-year-old r/watchpeopledie subreddits illustrates the tensions social networks face as they police content that violates their rules in real-time. Since the incident, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter have all struggled to keep video of the massacre from spreading, playing a game of digital whack-a-mole as users uploaded content that continued to avoid the detection of algorithms and content moderators.
“The video stays up until someone censors it,” one moderator on r/watchpeopledie wrote Thursday night. “This video is being scrubbed from major social media platforms but hopefully Reddit believes in letting you decide for yourself whether or not you want to see unfiltered reality.” These decisions have always led to debate among users and sparked arguments about free speech on the platform. Reddit, as a private company, has no legal obligation to protect users’ rights to free speech.
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