Posted on 03/22/2018 6:51:19 AM PDT by Simon Green
The social news discussion platform ranked among the most visited websites in the world announced a content policy Wednesday that left many popular gun boards banned.
The San Francisco-based site, which is structured around user-created boards termed “subreddits,” updated their community guidelines to bar the use of Reddit “to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift” that involves a host of items ranging from firearms to drugs, sex work, and stolen goods.
“Reddit is not intended to be used as a marketplace and takes no responsibility for any transactions individual users might decide to undertake in spite of this,” said the company in a posting that saw nearly 3,000 comments, overwhelmingly negative to the change.
Popular subreddits trading ammunition brass, giving tips for good deals on guns for sale by shops and wholesalers and even airsoft trading boards were turned off.
Among the comments were users defending /r/Gundeals as a distributor and manufacturer coupon subreddit where no gun sales took place.
“It’s ridiculous that you’re lumping gundeals in with other subs that facilitated illegal activities,” said one poster. “Gundeals at no time ever violated or attempted to skirt any laws; everything was 100% in compliance with federal and local laws as /r/gundeals was simply just a springboard for coupons and deal alerts and all transactions took place off Reddit through the proper and licensed channels.”
Some pointed out that ad scans or other discussions about sales for big box sporting goods retailers like Cabela’s, Dicks, and Walmart were still widely posted across Reddit.
Another asked, “So why lump Firearms in with drugs, prostitution, theft, and falsifying documents? Last I checked, guns were still legal in the U.S.”
The move comes as Bumble, YouTube and others have become hyper aware to the optics of anything gun-related on their expansive social platforms in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead and 15 injured in Parkland, Florida.
Reddit turns into Fuhgeddaboutit.
Youtube Bans all gun demo videos..............
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/21/youtube-bans-all-gun-demonstration-videos/
Libtards ruin everything.....
This is an insidious and coordinated plot to stop all pro-communications and conversations about guns and only allow anti-gun talk on social media.
We must push back hard on this.
This is WAR
Reddit should ban any First Amendment Speech as long as they are banning anything related to the Second Amendment.
At least then they can be consistently anti-Bill-Of-Rights.
You can buy weed on Reddit, and have it shipped to your door. But don’t talk about guns!
Somehow, I suspect that is far more likely to result in people with badges and guns showing up at your door...
PDJT hasn’t said a peep...Sarah Huckabee should call this out.
Reddit and Youtube will go through the ways of the dodo bird.
I have never used reddit and never will and every chance i get i mention what a loserplace it is.
I have hopes youtube will realize they might be making a very poor business decision.
The San Francisco-based site,................
That’s all I needed to know.
Can I force them to find me a Baker, to make a Cake with Guns on the icing?
Reddit is the 6th most popular website in the world, 4th in the United States. Free Republic, by contrast, comes in at 4,154th in the U.S.
You can disparage sites like Reddit all you want but the truth is, that's where the people are, and if conservatives are trying to get their message across, that's where they need to be.
I don't understand the mindset of people who think they are furthering conservatism by spending all their on-line time at Free Republic preaching to the ever-shrinking choir. President Trump doesn't post here. He posts on Twitter. Youtube, Facebook. That's where people are and that's what makes all the censoring that is going on right now a big deal.
Conservatives need to be taking over these sites, not pouting and avoiding them.
So true.
The talk Leftists are prohibiting and trying to prohibit goes well beyond guns. Their ideas can’t stand up to an honest debate so they attempt to shut things down with various kinds of censorship. On a related note, we have this:
The Queen’s University Talk: The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdYpMS8s28
There are interesting attempts by a mob to shut this event down, and they damage the historic building.
Does he do his job after he gets home from junior high?
Supposedly he’s 34 and married to a woman.
Both are hard to believe.
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