![]() Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter also scrambled to remove copies of it in the hours after the attack. Reddit wasn’t the only platform that struggled to stop broadcasting the video recorded by the New Zealand gunman. The video of the New Zealand massacre has prompted renewed calls for social media platforms to do a better, and quicker, job when it comes to ridding their platforms of gruesome, extremist content. Reddit just issued subreddits "Watch People Die" and "Gore" a flagrant foul and an ejection. In a move to shield users from “accidentally viewing content that many be offensive or upsetting,” Reddit quarantined the r/watchpeopledie, and r/gore subreddits, along with more than one dozen others, last September, and required users to opt-in to them, before viewing the gruesome content. In 2017, Reddit changed its content policy to prohibit any posts that encourage, glorify, or incite violence, however that policy is open to interpretation. Reddit has long had an “anything goes” reputation, letting people post whatever they want under the pretense of free speech. “Subreddits that fail to adhere to those site-wide rules will be banned.” “We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting content that incites or glorifies violence will get users and communities banned from Reddit,” a Reddit spokesperson told Fortune in an emailed statement. ![]()
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