New Reddit CEO Lays Down the Law on Harassment, Hate Speech

Reddit's co-founder (and newly-minted CEO) Steve Huffman addressed the future of the site in a post recently, taking a hard stance against spam, discussing illegal activity, harassment and hate speech.

Reddit’s co-founder (and newly-minted CEO) Steve Huffman addressed the future of the site in a post recently, taking a hard stance against spam, discussing illegal activity, harassment and hate speech.

Huffman posted a mission statement to the site, then answered questions from redditors:

Reddit is a place to have open and authentic discussions. The reason we’re careful to restrict speech is because people have more open and authentic discussions when they aren’t worried about the speech police knocking down their door.

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