Article GKH2 Reddit finally bans its white-supremacist subreddits

Reddit finally bans its white-supremacist subreddits

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Social news site closes racist forums because redditors have to 'spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with them', says chief executive

Social news site Reddit has banned six forums, or "subreddits", that form the core of its white-supremacist community.

The banned subreddits included "CoonTown", "WatchNiggersDie", "bestofcoontown", "koontown", "CoonTownMods", "CoonTownMeta", although more have been banned since, as users attempt to recreate them and get shut down in turn.

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