Exhibit 1051

Promote ideas, protect people (Reddit blog)

Exhibit 1051 · Institutional statement

Promote ideas, protect people (Reddit blog)

Because of this, we are changing our practices to prohibit attacks and harassment of individuals through reddit with the goal of preventing them.

Reddit announces a change to prohibit harassment of individuals, defines harassment, says volunteer moderators determine and uphold rules in their subreddits, cites a survey of over 15,000 redditors, and states the change would have no immediately noticeable impact on more than 99.99% of users.

Source: Reddit, Inc.
Date: 14 May 2015
Quoted from: Body, paragraph beginning "Because of this"
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://redditblog.com/2015/05/14/promote-ideas-protect-people/
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding INF-3.12: Primary record Reddit's content policy captured on 11 September 2015 lists quarantining and banning of communities among its enforcement options and states that Reddit does not prescribe moderators' use of its tools, and on 29 June 2020 Reddit announced that it was banning about 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse. A peer-reviewed study found that quarantining r/TheRedPill and r/The_Donald cut new-user influx by 79.5% and 58% while existing users' misogyny and racism did not change.