Posted on 05/06/2019 2:31:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Reddit’s “The_Donald” group claims 740,000 subscribers, or “patriots,” as they call themselves. This raucous corner of the internet is home to all things wonderful about Trump and tends to get slammed by critics as toxic to the public discourse.
From Islamophobia and misogyny to disinformation and propaganda, the group is often called out for violating Reddit’s rulebook. Yet, even as more sites have been purged across social media, “The_Donald” is still going strong.
But why? Let former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao explain it:
‘The fear that platform employees have of their users drives a lot of decision making in ways you don’t expect. My guess is that there’s a lot of fear of people who are running and using The_Donald. It’s not a subreddit that is following the rules or should actually be there.’
As she told Mother Jones in a recent interview, beyond the fear of backlash from users, it boils down to a business decision. “It’s hard to take down a subreddit which is driving a lot of traffic,” she said.
Meanwhile, current CEO Steve Huffman has been roundly slammed for allowing the group, which hails Trump as “God emperor,” to stand. Last year, Huffman elaborated as to why racism doesn’t violate Reddit rules.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
And yet, they can't get rid of it, without crashing the eyeball numbers. Irony...
Like Thumper’s Mom used to say: “If you can’t say something awful about Trump, don’t say anything at all!” Or not.
I just shake my damn head...
Twitter: started and managed by liberals
Facebook: started and managed by liberals
Amazon: started and managed by liberals
Google: started and managed by liberals
now
Reddit: started and managed by liberals
Conservatives want to use liberal owned and operated platforms and cry and whine like babies when it doesn’t work out to their liking...
How smart do you have to be to see?
Where are the conservative social media entrepreneurs and platforms? Or are liberals that much smarter?
To liberals, Freedom of Speech means freedom from ever being exposed to speech that they do not agree with.
Never used Reddit but ought to sign up for the pro Donald group.
Gab & Gab "Dissenter" (Dissenter is an alternative to the "Disqus" comment system), Voat, Freezoxee, and MeWe.
And of course FR & Freepers!
(And “TOS” TBR).
.... It’s amazing how quickly the ... “Tolerant, Free Speech” Liberals are all for Censorship when the opposing point of view is gaining popularity ....
We have one right here. Spread the word.
It doesn’t take long to see what the left has been doing to those that try and establish free speech platforms.
Facebook was started and managed by the CIA.
Google was started and managed by the CIA.
They all started out neutral, and particularly Facebook and Google got away with massive law violations, while buying any up any competitors (Youtube, Instagram, for example.)
Trivia: Google was started at Stanford, and was using over half of Stanford's entire mainframe computing capability during the start up. Want to guess who runs a CIA internship? Stanford. Don't get me started on Harvard, which is where Facebook started.
Trivia: the CIA operation Lifelog was intended to collect all information about a person. They officially killed the LifeLog program on February 4, 2004. Guess what started that day? "On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "TheFacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com"
Careful. You’re going to wind up being qualified to be on the nut-job conspiracy ping list.
Like me.
:)
We have jackets. Wait, no we don’t.
Nully, where’s our jackets??
Talks like a lib, looks like a lib
To add insult to injury, young people who founded and run social media have recently come out of colleges that are hotbeds of communist indoctrination.
No need to whine about it...it is what it is.
As an aside, I think I heard the other day that recently YouTube had seen a sharp decline in traffic due their PC banning of certain videos. This was a big concern to management (naturally).
In other words, it may take time, but, though the creators and managers of social media may be liberal, conservatives make up large segments of their most lucrative markets.
We have to let the markets work their magic.
Markets operate on a "survival of the fittest" principle. As some parts of the social media learn they can thrive by serving conservative markets and others suffer because they don't, instinct will help the smarter of these young naive idiots grow up.
[As she told Mother Jones in a recent interview]
Oh yeah, Mother Jones. That’s a great source......(rolls eyes)
Thanks for posting that. I did not know this. ‘Pod
Ergo, the banning of conservatives from the social media is NOT a CIA plot. It just doesn't pass the smell (or rational judgment) test.
BTW this former CEO was considered to be so authoritarian, she gained the nickname “Chairman Pao”.
Liberals are colluding to shut out and shut down conservative tech alternatives.
Gab.ai - created as a conservative alternative to Twitter. Liberal bullies got it shut down before it started, getting it banned from app stores, its social media accounts shut down, and censored from search results via Google.
Subscribestar - a neutral alternative to Patreon - liberal bullies organized threats and leaned on payment processing third parties like Mastercard to shut it down. This is a violation of trade law, companies organizing to shut down rivals.
Dissenter - a conservative commentary plugin. Banned by Firefox. Mozilla and Chrome try to shut it down, saying it violates their use policies.
You want conservative alternative media? Big Tech chokes that off in many ways.
Google downranks them in search results while privileging Twitter. Facebook has long throttled conservative sources. One example is poisoning the well by falsely flagging content as questionable or false when it comes from conservative sources. Another is removing them from news trends, artificially promoting content that fits liberal prejudices, and lying to people about links being bad. Twitter and Facebook both shadow-ban people - you think your followers see it but really don’t.
Then there’s the systematic oppression. Liberal hate mobs organize to lie to shut down content creators. Falsely flagging content as hate speech or DCMA violations to get them demonetized. You can still post, but you aren’t paid.
Big Tech firms do it in their own way, working together to deplatform people they don’t like. They started with Alex Jones, have moved on to Pamela Gellar and Paul Joseph Watson.
Oh, and payment processors are refusing to process payments to them. Want to send money to Pamela Gellar or Jihad Watch? Have to send a check, because Paypal doesn’t like it. Want to send money to the Proud Boys? Their group bank account AND the personal bank accounts of members were shut down.
That’s aside from liberals trying to get people fired and rendered unemployable. That’s the weaponization of poverty. Sure, you can speak, but I hope you don’t mind being afraid of being left homeless. Never mind the real risk they’ll show up at your home and assault you or attack you in public.
If you want tacky, look at the stories of conservatives put in Facebook jail for posting Tweets and audio of liberal threats against them ... for violent content.
Tommy Robinson was on the campaign trail in the UK and assaulted three times in one day, all caught on video, and police wouldn’t take a police report. Dana Loesch gets death threats sent to her home, to her children, and police don’t care. Or just get hit for wearing a MAGA hat, while the bully says they’re the victim because your clothing triggers them.
The parallel financial attack is trying to get advertisers to drop conservative content creators, and Google removing its ads from sites like Breitbart. Deny them funding so they’re more likely to fold.
Liberal fascists are attacking conservatives on every front. They SYSTEMATICALLY shut down every startup to rival Big Tech, the mainstream media or even private individuals who are having an influence.
Gab.ai - created as a conservative alternative to Twitter. Liberal bullies got it shut down before it started, getting it banned from app stores, its social media accounts shut down, and censored from search results via Google.
Subscribestar - a neutral alternative to Patreon - liberal bullies organized threats and leaned on payment processing third parties like Mastercard to shut it down. This is a violation of trade law, companies organizing to shut down rivals.
Dissenter - a conservative commentary plugin. Banned by Firefox. Mozilla and Chrome try to shut it down, saying it violates their use policies.
You want conservative alternative media? Big Tech chokes that off in many ways.
Google downranks them in search results while privileging Twitter. Facebook has long throttled conservative sources. One example is poisoning the well by falsely flagging content as questionable or false when it comes from conservative sources. Another is removing them from news trends, artificially promoting content that fits liberal prejudices, and lying to people about links being bad. Twitter and Facebook both shadow-ban people - you think your followers see it but really don’t.
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