Reddit

Media and Entertainment, Software and Services

Risk Level:

Rating - Danger
High Risk

Summary:

Reddit, a blogging, discussion, and content aggregation website, has terminated posts and censored forums that supported Donald Trump, opposed postmodern gender ideology, and questioned the efficacy of COVID-19 lockdown policies and vaccines. Reddit has vocally supported the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and hosts internal Pride events. For these reasons, Reddit receives a "High Risk" rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Reddit has a long history of terminating user accounts for political reasons. One instance is the banning of a pro-Donald Trump board in 2020 for “promoting hate speech” (1). More recently, Reddit has banned boards that critique postmodern gender ideology (2). Reddit has also acted against accounts that question the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and lockdown policies (3).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Reddit Inc. does not have a donation program. It does pay for employees to take time off to volunteer, but it does not list the criteria for which organizations are eligible for this program (1).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Reddit does not explicitly protect individuals from viewpoint discrimination but does state that “Our vision at Reddit is to have a workforce representative of people with different perspectives and experiences, including but not limited to […] political views” (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Reddit has not openly pushed for policy or ideological goals using its corporate reputation. However, it has internally supported the BLM movement and Pride events (1)(2).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Reddit does not openly fund ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression.

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Reddit does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying.

All links were last accessed and all information was updated on:
December 24, 2022

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