However, such concentrations of hateful content are sometimes banned and
removed from particular platforms. As a result, these communities often
disappear and resurface in new forms. For example, in 2011, 4chan’s founder
deleted the news board (/n/) due to racist comments and created /pol/ as
a replacement forum for political discussion.

4chan’s /pol/ board quickly became a home for particularly hateful speech –
even by 4chan standards (Hine et al. 2016). Similarly, banned subreddits like
Coontown have moved to Voat, a platform with no regulations with regard to
hate speech (Chandrasekharan, Pavalanathan et al. 2017). While survey data

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108890960 Published online by Cambridge University Press

Online Hate Speech

63
Social_Media_and_Democracy