A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish (Jason Parham/Wired)

Jason Parham / Wired:
A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish  —  The crowdsourced dictionary once felt like a pioneering tool of the early internet era.  Now in its 20th year, it has become something much more inhospitable.

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