{"id":121713,"date":"2017-10-29T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T10:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121713"},"modified":"2017-10-27T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:59:01","slug":"reddit-shuts-down-offensive-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/121713-reddit-shuts-down-offensive-communities","title":{"rendered":"Reddit shuts down offensive communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit is cracking down on communities built around offensive content, shutting down subreddits like \/r\/Nazi and \/r\/SexWithDogs, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/10\/reddit-conducts-wide-ranging-purge-of-offensive-subreddits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The purge comes after Reddit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/modnews\/comments\/78p7bz\/update_on_sitewide_rules_regarding_violent_content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a new policy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on content that incites violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people,\u201d said Reddit. This includes harm\u00a0to animals.<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica noted that several controversial subreddits remain online, however. Depictions of violence are allowed as long as they are not in violation of the rule above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that enforcing this policy may often require subjective judgment, so all of the usual caveats apply with regard to content that is newsworthy, artistic, educational, satirical, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/227553-reddit-closing-access-to-main-code-base.html\">Reddit closing access to main code base<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit is cracking down on communities built around offensive content, shutting down subreddits like \/r\/Nazi and \/r\/SexWithDogs, reported\u00a0Ars Technica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":121715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25277,1533],"class_list":["post-121713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-offensive-subreddits","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}