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NYC to Shift $1 Billion From NYPD to Social Services, Mayor Says

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Bloomberg logo NYC to Shift $1 Billion From NYPD to Social Services, Mayor Says

(Bloomberg) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he’s presented a plan to the City Council to shift about $1 billion from the police department to social programs.

a man walking down a city street: An NYPD officer wearing a protective mask stands in Times Square. © Bloomberg An NYPD officer wearing a protective mask stands in Times Square.

The issue, coming a day before the city’s June 30 budget deadline, may remove a major obstacle in negotiations because City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has insisted on cutting that amount from the NYPD’s $5.9 billion budget.

The mayor proposed a $95 billion budget in January, then reduced it to $89.3 billion in April, as the virus forced a lockdown that removed billions of dollars in tax revenue. His latest budget, he has said, has been pared down to about $87 billion.

Reddit closes long-running forum supporting President Trump after years of policy violations

Moderators, participants fled the subreddit months ago over complaints that Reddit was too strict on speech

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Craig Timberg and

Elizabeth Dwoskin

June 29, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Reddit shut down its popular but controversial forum devoted to supporting President Trump on Monday, following years in which the social media company tried but often failed to control the racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, glorification of violence and conspiracy theories that flourished there.

The move against r/The_Donald, as the forum was known, came after its volunteer moderators and much of the community had left in recent months, moving to a website that mimics Reddit’s system of conversation and user voting on content but appears to have fewer rules. It is just one of several alternative social media sites, such as Gab and Parler, that have emerged in recent years, portraying themselves as freewheeling alternatives to more mainstream platforms.

The move by Reddit comes amid a broader crackdown by technology companies, including Twitter and Facebook, to try to rein in hateful, deceptive and other problematic content on their platforms, typically after high-profile scandals prompted action. Reddit also implemented its first policy banning hate speech on Monday and closed about 2,000 individual forums, what the company calls “subreddits.” The company already had a policy against “divisive language” in advertising.

Zuckerberg once wanted to sanction Trump. Then Facebook wrote rules that accommodated him.

Most of the closed subreddits already had become dormant while others, like r/The_Donald, had histories of policy violations. Reddit also closed the left-wing r/ElChapoTrapHouse on Monday for violating platform rules.

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