Black Reddit moderators say onslaughts of racism and abuse have become the norm. Now, they're hoping new, stricter policies can make their spaces safe.
forum, drafted an open letter to Huffman demanding that the platform act on its stated support for Black lives.
On June 29, Huffman released the platform's new content policy, which explicitly bans communities and users that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability — and in accordance with the new policy, the platform banned over 2,000 subreddits. Huffman also posted a thread detailing the ZoomMoving forward, moderators hope to see the progress continue
Martina X hopes to see the banning of more subreddits in the future but felt that the transparency was "part of a good, positive first step." "It looks like they really listened to and considered the things we said in our Zoom meeting," he said. "From what I saw, we weren't just being paid lip service by the admins and Steve."
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