{"id":196896,"date":"2017-02-02T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T08:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=196896"},"modified":"2017-02-02T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T08:10:41","slug":"reddit-bans-alt-right-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/196896-reddit-bans-alt-right-community.html","title":{"rendered":"Reddit bans alt-right community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has banned the alt-right community (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/altright\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the r\/altright subreddit<\/strong><\/a>) from its platform due to a violation of its content policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis subreddit was banned due to a violation of our content policy, specifically, the proliferation of personal and confidential information,\u201d said Reddit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/01\/reddit-bans-alt-right-community-over-harassment\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reddit said in a statement<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0there is no single solution to the issues and it is engaging with its community to improve everyone\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strive to be a welcoming, open platform for all by trusting our users to maintain an environment that cultivates genuine conversation and adheres to our content policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very clear in our site terms of service that posting of personal information can get users banned from Reddit and we ask our communities not to post content that harasses or invites harassment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/188922-reddit-ceo-admits-to-editing-insulting-comments-to-target-pro-trump-moderators.html\">Reddit CEO admits to editing insulting comments to target pro-Trump moderators<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit has banned the alt-right community on its platform due to a violation of its content policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8045],"class_list":["post-196896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196946,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196896\/revisions\/196946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}