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A handful of Reddit forums were banned, including 鈥淐oonTown,鈥� 鈥渂estofcoontown鈥� and 鈥淲atchN------Die.鈥�

Making that decision did not come quick or easy. In July, according to Wired magazine, Reddit鈥檚 new CEO, Steve Huffman, first attempted to simply 鈥渜uarantine鈥� the forums 鈥� known as 鈥渟ubreddits鈥� 鈥� behind E-mail verification gates. A few weeks later, however, Huffman announced the racist subreddits were being banned outright.

鈥淲e are banning a handful of communities that exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else,鈥� the CEO said in a statement.

Before 鈥淐oonTown鈥� and the like were kicked to the curb, Reddit banned a subreddit called 鈥淕asTheK----,鈥� a move that did not sit well with Andrew Anglin, the founder and operator of the neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer. Anglin said that banning the forum in July appeared to be 鈥渢he beginning of the end of one of the very last remaining free speech outlets on the internet鈥� and was an overreaction because the title 鈥淕asTheK----鈥� was 鈥渋n jest, and was not really calling for the gassing of k----.鈥�

Nazis of a feather: Andrew Anglin, who has spent time with members of the fascist Golden Dawn group in Greece, was enraged by Reddit鈥檚 banning of the 鈥淕asTheK----鈥� forum. (Dailystormer)

The world of online hate has long been dominated by crude and blatant racists and neo-Nazi Web forums such as Stormfront and Vanguard News Network. But Reddit is different and much, much bigger. It was recently spun off into its own independent entity from Advance Publications, the parent company of Conde Nast.

Getting Reddit to smell the electronic crosses burning was only one front in the 人兽性交鈥檚 campaign to pressure respectable websites to stop doing business with and thereby enabling Internet racists.

In the wake of revelations that Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston, S.C., church shooter, was 鈥渁wakened鈥� to the 鈥渆pidemic鈥� of so-called black-on-white crime by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), PayPal 鈥� one of the world鈥檚 largest online money transfer services 鈥� suspended the white nationalist hate group鈥檚 account after being contacted by the 人兽性交.

Despite moving to suspend the CCC鈥檚 account after the racially charged church massacre in June (see story, p. 20), PayPal had been well aware of its part in helping the group raise money. On multiple occasions over the past year, the 人兽性交 had contacted the organization about more than 60 known hate groups using PayPal鈥檚 services to solicit donations and sell merchandise used to fund hate.