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Reddit bans Qanon subreddits after months of violent threats
NBC News ^ | Sep.12.2018 | Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins

Posted on 09/12/2018 3:55:24 PM PDT by tkocur

Reddit banned its largest community focused on the fringe conspiracy theory Qanon on Wednesday, claiming the subreddit was cut off “due to repeated violations of the terms of our content policy.”

The community, called /r/GreatAwakening, had more than 71,000 subscribers making over 10,000 comments on average per day before it was banned. A backup subreddit, /r/the_greatawakening, was also banned, along with 17 other Qanon focused communities, including r/BiblicalQ and r/Quincels.

The subreddit, which is a term for the common interest groups that make up Reddit, has been host to a stream of violent threats based on the conspiracy theory — despite repeated calls from the community’s moderators urging them to stop, particularly in recent weeks. Qanon devotees falsely believe that President Donald Trump is secretly waging a war with special counsel Robert Mueller to take down a global pedophile ring led by Hollywood celebrities and the Democratic Party, most notably Hillary Clinton.

Threats to kill Clinton pervaded GreatAwakening earlier this month when users were incensed by a Qanon-based theory that she was somehow causing military planes to fall out of the sky. GreatAwakening members implored the community to “kill all enemies”

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KEYWORDS: abouttime; anonfakenews; braking; q; reddit; wellbye
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To: Be Careful

In case anyone is interested this group has moved to Voat:

https://voat.co/v/theawakening

More information:

https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/09/12/announcment-r-greatawakening-censored-new-community-inbound-qanon-greatawakening-reddit-censorship-neonrevolt/


21 posted on 09/12/2018 5:43:50 PM PDT by Revel
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To: tkocur

Threats to kill your enemy usually precede the start of a war. The left has already verbally committed itself to killing gunowners, patriots, deplorables and conservatives. The American left has already been very efficient in building an industrial-size killing machine to murder babies.

There’s no stopping the inevitable. War is imminent.


22 posted on 09/12/2018 5:46:53 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: tkocur

What they don’t mention is a standard procedure on reddit where opponents post hate posts, etc on the sub, snap a screenie before mods can remove and then send a complaint to the site mods.


23 posted on 09/12/2018 6:17:37 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: tkocur

For a so called fake, a lot of people seem worried or threatened about Q.


24 posted on 09/12/2018 6:22:48 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

yep, that is what I think, too.

I haven’t followed the Q posts, but there seems to be an all out assault by the leftist site owners and media to stop any opinion that differs from their own.

I think Trump should give them a strong dose of socialism and have some great conservative contract workers replicate all the lefty sites but with a .gov extension, open algorithms and some type of proof of anti-censorship (if non violent), no tracking and no ads.

Kick their socialist loving donkey butts where it hurts.

JMHO


25 posted on 09/12/2018 6:46:52 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: Phillyred

>For a so called fake, a lot of people seem worried or threatened about Q.

Even aside from the Q poster itself (?) the community has been diligent in the same way ours is in finding those facts which ruin leftist lies (e.g., the Ra’th’er fakenews).


26 posted on 09/12/2018 6:56:31 PM PDT by No.6
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To: Revel

Thanks!


27 posted on 09/12/2018 8:19:44 PM PDT by Be Careful
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To: Revel

Nice overview! I was there regularly as an interested observer, and my experience of activities matches your description. Big Tech has made their choice, and they will manufacture or lie about violations as needed to justify silencing anything “not leftist”, which can include libertarians/Bernie-bots/conspiracy fans etc.

Just because people think they aren’t “Republicans”, doesn’t mean they can’t find themselves attacked for being straying from the lefts “narrative plantation”.


28 posted on 09/12/2018 9:21:14 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: tkocur

I just go to reddit for the naked women er... I mean the cheerleaders er... photos of women in bikini’s er... the news of the world yes the news that’s it....


29 posted on 09/12/2018 9:47:24 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

The Playboy of its day?


30 posted on 09/13/2018 5:27:58 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Revel

I was subscribed. Didn’t go there on a daily basis but I did visit and read quite a bit and Never saw these threats of violence they’re talking about.

I imagine they’d love to pull The_Donald subreddit but would probably ignite a shitstorm if they did. It wouldn’t surprise me if they pulled it before Oct.

It will surprise me if The_Donald sub is still there for the 2020 elections.

All the rest of reddit is anti-Trump leftist freaks.


31 posted on 09/13/2018 6:50:26 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: tkocur; Jack Black

Look Jack,
More of my censorship of Twitter’s being mean to Q.


32 posted on 09/16/2018 3:12:58 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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