After Charlottesville, even dating sites are cracking down on hate

“We do not tolerate anyone who promotes racism or hatred — it’s that simple,” said Elie Seidman, OKCupid’s chief executive, in an email to The New York Times. “At OKCupid, our mission is to connect people based on substance — based on their shared sensibility. The privilege of being in our community does not extend to Nazis and supremacists.”

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OKCupid officials then went a step further, urging site users to immediately report anyone “involved in hate groups.”

On the same day, another dating site, Bumble, announced it was also seeking to ban “all forms of hate” through a collaboration with the Anti-Defamation League. Bumble officials said they would look to the organization for guidance on identifying hate symbols and, like OKCupid, called on its users to block and report anyone they saw expressing hate.

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