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Reddit Has Banned Two Channels Showing Human Death.
Reddit is one sick company.On Thursday night, a Reddit spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that /r/watchpeopledie, where links led to videos of people being executed or hit by cars, was allowed on the site because it provided a service to members — some of whom the company said were medical professionals or first responders — to learn about or cope with death. By Friday morning, however, Reddit moved to end /r/watchpeopledie, which had more than 300,000 subscribers, and /r/gore, as a result of members continually linking to videos of the New Zealand incident while moderators failed to act or even encouraged their posting.
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Some forum owners don't believe they are responsible for policing their sites... 
The social news site Reddit has occasionally been the topic of controversy due to the presence of communities on the site (known as "subreddits"
devoted to explicit or controversial material. Yishan Wong, the site's former CEO, stated, "We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it."[1]
The subreddit /r/jailbait, devoted to suggestive or revealing photos of underage girls, was one of the most prominent subreddits on the site before it was closed down in October 2011 following a report by CNN.[2] The controversy surrounding /r/Creepshots, devoted to revealing or suggestive photos of women taken without their awareness or consent, occurred a year after /r/jailbait's closure. The /r/Creepshots controversy prompted a Gawker exposé of one of the subreddit's moderators by Adrian Chen, which revealed the real-life identity of the user behind the account, Michael Brutsch. This started discussion in the media about the ethics of anonymity and outing on the Internet.[3]
(Much much more (sickening warning) at the link)
devoted to explicit or controversial material. Yishan Wong, the site's former CEO, stated, "We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it."[1]
The subreddit /r/jailbait, devoted to suggestive or revealing photos of underage girls, was one of the most prominent subreddits on the site before it was closed down in October 2011 following a report by CNN.[2] The controversy surrounding /r/Creepshots, devoted to revealing or suggestive photos of women taken without their awareness or consent, occurred a year after /r/jailbait's closure. The /r/Creepshots controversy prompted a Gawker exposé of one of the subreddit's moderators by Adrian Chen, which revealed the real-life identity of the user behind the account, Michael Brutsch. This started discussion in the media about the ethics of anonymity and outing on the Internet.[3]
(Much much more (sickening warning) at the link)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities
'Why Is Reddit So Anti-Women?': An Epic Reddit Thread Counts the Ways
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/why-reddit-so-anti-women-epic-reddit-thread-counts-ways/325357/
While Reddit has proved itself as a great source of viral news and received deserved praise for its coverage of the Aurora shootings, a recent thread posited a question about where women fit in in the site.
Only a Trumphumper would be stupid enough to believe that argument. 
