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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is married to tennis champion Serena Williams
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm’s board and urged the company to change him with a black candidate.
The tech entrepreneur has also pledged to use long term gains on his Reddit stock to “provide the black community.”
In a sequence of tweets, he mentioned he was carrying out it “as a father who wants to be able to solution his black daughter when she asks: ‘What did you do?'”
It follows days of US protests versus police brutality and racial inequality.
Mr Ohanian, who is married to black tennis winner Serena Williams, stated he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp, a non-earnings began by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
“I feel resignation can basically be an act of leadership from folks in electrical power correct now,” he stated in a video clip. “To everyone preventing to take care of our broken country: do not halt.”
Mr Ohanian started social media website Reddit 15 many years in the past with his university roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman.
He stepped down from each day duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company’s board until finally now.
Reddit promoted its 1st female board member, Porter Gale, past year.
But the internet site has arrive under hearth for hosting community forums that endorse racist material. The firm has banned teams like r/blackpeoplehate and alt-suitable r/MillionDollarExtreme. It has also “quarantined” a professional-Trump discussion board, r/TheDonald, making sure that its information does not appear in website lookups or tips.
Earlier this week, many popular Reddit discussion boards switched their access rights to personal, or banned new posts solely, to protest from the company’s loathe speech procedures. Ex-main government Ellen K Pao also lambasted her former employer in a tweet, declaring: “You don’t get to say [Black Lives Matter] when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day extensive.”
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