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.
Probably so, but to their illiberal liberal minds it’s ‘the right thing to do’..................[may be their lawyers are telling them to to prevent lawsuits in case of another school shooting]......................
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They won’t be banning gun threads any time soon.
Is she pre or post op?
I don’t care to makes liberals rich by participating in their liberal social sites. If that appeals to you based on their popularity fine, but that isn’t fighting, it’s giving in. Fightin means competing for those views on other platforms in the marketplace.
Indeed California isn’t a state it’s a disease.
Reddit has always been extremely liberal. It’s inhabited by uptight, white youngsters who are afraid of opposing views. They have a stupid upvote/downvote thing that allows them to get rid of opinions they don’t like.
Ahem...
I hope they take Fakebook and Twitter with them!
Yeah...and Reddit has been looking to get rid of the Donald
PDJT hasn’t said a peep...Sarah Huckabee should call this out.
I haven’t heard ANY Repub make a peep, on this.
Have y’all???
Hello???? Pubbies/Conservative Reps......where are you????
Yeah...and Reddit has been looking to get rid of the Donald.
I don’t doubt that, at all.
You don't get it.
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, comments sections of news sites, etc. didn't start out political. If anything, they were apolitical, open to every opinion. And then political opinions popular with conservatives started taking over. Conservative viewpoints DOMINATED these sites!
And then Donald Trump won. That changed everything. The Left panicked and forced these sites to shut down conservative voices by turning off comment sections and implementing speech codes. Leftism can't stand up to scrutiny so their immediate reaction is to shut it down.
Basically, the Left said, we're taking over YouTube and kicking you off!
Post a political opinion on Free Republic and nobody gives a shit. Nobody sees it. This place is a backwater.
Now post that same opinion over at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc and it's a problem. People are reading it, people outside the echo chamber. Hearts and minds are being changed, "Deplorables" are being created, and guys like Donald Trump are winning elections.
Do you know how many petitions there are to get Trump kicked off Twitter? Multitudes! The Left hates that he has an audience.
Fighting means competing for those views on other platforms in the marketplace? Really? Do you think Free Republic competes with Twitter? Reddit? Not even close! And if it did, Google would move to shut it down.
Why should conservatives surrender their presence on the top ten websites in the world and retreat back to 4,154th place? Build our own YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter? No need. They already exist. We just need to man up and take them back.
Reminds one of the admonition to be “in the world, not of it”, I’d say.
In other words, know what’s going on, be aware of it, but you don’t have to be all about it.
They need to be abandoned like myspace, another platform that “everyone” was on.
To be fair, I will advocate the constitutional position on whatever platform I find myself on, but I have no interest in actively supporting liberal platforms even if they are super popular.
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