Reddit just issued subreddits 'Watch People Die' and 'Gore' a flagrant foul and an ejection. In a move to shield users from “accidentally viewing content that many be offensive or upsetting,” Reddit quarantined the r/watchpeopledie, and r/gore subreddits, along with more than one dozen others, last September, and required users to opt-in to them, before viewing the gruesome content. In 2017, Reddit changed its content policy to prohibit any posts that encourage, glorify, or incite violence, however that policy is open to interpretation. Reddit has long had an “anything goes” reputation, letting people post whatever they want under the pretense of free speech. “Subreddits that fail to adhere to those site-wide rules will be banned.”

Get the latest news from in your inbox.“We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting content that incites or glorifies violence will get users and communities banned from Reddit,” a Reddit spokesperson told Fortune in an emailed statement. Sebastiano Venier was a Venetian general from the 16th Century who his army to victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. The names written on his weapons include Luca Traini, an Italian man who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the drive-by shooting of six African migrants in February last year.Īlexandre Bissonnette is serving a life sentence for killing six people and injuring five others in a shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in 2017. The man is understood to have posted a manifesto online and taken to Twitter with anti-Muslim rants about birthrates and white genocide. The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. The gunman begins the video by saying “let’s get this party started” and listens to American civil war music on his way to the shooting.Ĭarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire. Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters

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