[boards2x]

Hilarious. Spam is strictly prohibited, while hate-speech is tolerated, unless inciting. spam must be lethal. Anywho, I've never liked Reddit and like it even less seeing what's going in there.

>> These types of content are prohibited [1]: >> Spam

[tikhonj]

That's because spam is an attack on the service. More like DDoS traffic than commentary. It's a matter of operating the site, not policing the ideas therein.

"Hate speech", on the other hand, is about voicing particular modern taboos. It's inherently politicized and controversial. Banning it site-wide would be little more than moralistic.

[mrkurt]

Spam is easy to recognize. Hate-speech isn't, there's a tremendous range of speech that may-or-may not be hate speech.

[bluecalm]

Yeah but... racism is well established as a harmful thing by now. If you host subs dedicated to it you are making the world a worse place. It might be a tough call with other things but this one is as clear-cut as it gets.