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History of Feminism

jakeXT

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6. Reddit has a history of censorship...

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 09:42 AM

Sep 2014

Banned words

The issue was brought to light by a Reddit user nicknamed Creq who posted a message to the site a week ago suggesting that 20 terms had been banned.

He said the list of censored words included: "National Security Agency", "GCHQ", "Anonymous", "anti-piracy", "Bitcoin", "Snowden" and "net neutrality".

It later became clear that other terms, including "EU Court", "startup" and "Assange" had also been blocked.

When the Daily Dot questioned one of the section's volunteer moderators about this, he confirmed that software was being used to automatically delete posts that featured "politicised" words in order to avoid the links making it to the core list of most popular topics.

http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-27100773

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Does this sound familiar? [View all] boston bean Sep 2014 OP

Sounds like... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #1

my mercuryblues Sep 2014 #2

Truth to Power. littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #3

Kicking. littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #4

I'm guessing bloggers and other website owners must have all attended the same legal conference hlthe2b Sep 2014 #5

Reddit has a history of censorship... jakeXT Sep 2014 #6

To my way of thinking this phrase = Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2014 #7

+1 nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #8

+2 nomorenomore08 Sep 2014 #9