Reddit Threatens To Shut Down Compliant Right-Wing Subreddit For “Hate Speech”, Gives No Examples Of It

Reddit administrators are threatening to “quarantine” a right-wing subreddit, which is compliant with Reddit’s content policy and user agreement, for “hate speech”, while declining to define or specify examples of “hate speech” on the subreddit.

The r/altright subreddit got a message from Reddit admin Chtorrr today, saying that the subreddit had “hate speech” on it and that the “hate speech” had to be removed before “further action” was taken:

The messages, provided exclusively to GotNews by one of the moderators, show that the subreddit is compliant and willing to work with the Reddit admin — one of the moderators even points out that the subreddit’s word-filter automatically censors racial and ethnic slurs, including the “n-word.”

The Reddit admin, however, declines to either define or give examples of “hate speech”:

The Reddit admin refuses to specify what constitutes “hate speech” and needs to be removed, despite repeated requests by the subreddit moderators, and warns the moderators that they are “endanger [sic] of quarantine”:

Neither Reddit’s content policy nor user agreement have a single instance of the phrase “hate speech”, let alone definitions:

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