In an effort to be neutral, the company’s hate speech policies treat attacks on white people or men in exactly the same way as it treats comments about Black pe

In an effort to be neutral, the company’s hate speech policies treat attacks on white people or men in exactly the same way as it treats comments about Black people or women [..] Employees said that this policy means the company’s automated content moderation tools proactively detect far more hate speech targeting white people than it does hate speech targeting Black people, even if the hate speech targeted at Black people is widely considered more offensive -- a hypothesis supported by academics and the company’s own internal research.. To avoid such an outcome, reddit used to explicitly allow hate speech against "majority" groups (in the US, despite reddit being used globally):https://web.archive.org/web/20200629172643/https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or https://web.archive.org/web/20200629172643/https://www.reddi... They've since changed the wording to be less explicit, only forbidding hate speech against "marginalized or vulnerable" groups, without mentioning that this means hate speech against other groups is still allowed. The examples they give show their intention is the same: "Some examples of hateful activities that would violate the rule: [..] Post describing a racial minority as sub-human and inferior to the racial majority": https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/acc... It would be interesting to see how they would apply this rule to a South African subreddit.