TIME spoke to 19 Reddit moderators around the world who shared similar stories and concerns about the San-Francisco-based company’s reluctance to control hate-speech in its non-English language forums.
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Reddit leverages trademarks for financing
Reddit leverages trademarks of brands built on its platform to secure financing.
Reddit says it is all-in on social justice while at the same time en gaging in systematic, calculated exploitation by asserting trademark rights over brands innovators built using the company’s platform, and then leveraging those trademarks to secure financing.
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Reddit's actions prevent brand rights enforcement
Reddit's actions prevent Mr. Rogozinski from enforcing rights in his brand despite connections to WALLSTREETBETS and WSB-branded NFT and cryptocurrency offerings.
Reddit’s actions prevent Mr. Rogozinski from enforcing rights in his brand despite being connected to WALLSTREETBETS and WSB- branded NFT and cryptocurrency offerings.
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Mr Huffman said racial slurs aren't against Reddit rules
Mr Huffman said racial slurs are not against Reddit's rules after being directly questioned by a user.
Last week, Reddit named Michael Seibel, the CEO of Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, as the first black board member in the company’s history.
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Reddit is accused of worrying about Perplexity's workaround
Reddit is accused of worrying that Perplexity's workaround could catch on, potentially disrupting its licensing deals.
Further, Reddit’s worried that Perplexity’s workaround could catch on, potentially messing up Reddit’s other licensing deals.
Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results - Ars Technica
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Reddit faces ruling over LiveRamp tracker
Reddit lost its bid to nix a proposed class action alleging the social media platform violated a California privacy statute by placing a LiveRamp tracker on its website to gather visitor information for targeted advertising, after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the tracker is plausibly a "pen register" under state law.
Reddit lost its bid to nix a proposed class action alleging the social media platform violated a California privacy statute by placing a LiveRamp tracker on its website to gather visitor information for targeted advertising, after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the tracker is plausibly a "pen register" under state law.
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Reddit faces ruling over number of children affected
In setting the penalty amount, the ICO took into consideration the number of children affected by this infringement, the degree of potential harm caused, the duration of the failings, and Reddit’s global turnover.
In setting the penalty amount, the ICO took into consideration the number of children affected by this infringement, the degree of potential harm caused, the duration of the failings, and Reddit’s global turnover.
Prior to this, the ICO said, there were “a large number of children under 13 on the platform and Reddit did not have a lawful basis for processing their personal information”.
Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data | Reddit | The Guardian
The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit £14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data.
Baines also said that, given Reddit's likelihood of appealing the decision, the time between issuing the fine and whatever enforcement action is ultimately taken could be years.