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Posted on 02/26/2020 7:18:08 PM PST by bryan999
Members of the Reddit subforum r/The_Donald are claiming that Reddit officials are staging a coup against their community.
The controversial subreddit has been quarantined since last year due to “repeated misbehavior.” According to a notice on the r/The_Donald homepage, this means the subreddit is “restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of Reddit’s rules against violence and other aspects of the Content Policy.” Users have to confirm they want to view the content behind this wall.
Now, longtime moderators of r/The_Donald say they’re losing administrative powers, and they’re questioning Reddit’s intentions.
“In the last 24 hours Reddit has begun sitewide banning people for even upvoting wrongthink, and has begun removing TheDonald mods to replace with who knows,” one Twitter user wrote on Tuesday. In another tweet, the user said, “Reddit has begun the full takeover of The_Donald.”
Some forum regulars and Twitter users have called for the community to move to independent pro-Trump websites. Supporters are lamenting their loss of platform, claiming it to be a matter of free speech.
We literally cannot have anything anymore,” redditor savage4082 wrote. “Anytime we have a platform to speak whether it be on social media, college campuses, or even just out in public, these a***holes attack us and our free speech until the platform is taken away by any means necessary.”
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A few users have even called the potential takeover of r/The_Donald an act of “fascism.”
“The real fascists are those who use every single ounce of their being to control and punish those who dare speak against their message,” savage4082 continued. “There’s only one side who does this in the United States and that is the left. This is simply another example.”
Other users have argued in support of Reddit’s clamp down on the forum’s moderators.
“Reddit hates The_Donald and wants it gone,” user @brodie_cris’ tweeted. “As a private company its free to do whatever it pleases.”
BuzzFeed journalist Ryan Broderick, who reports on the far-right and fringe online communities, said the subreddit is an important political record.
“If r/The_Donald goes down, I hope someone is able to save a complete backup of it and makes the data public,” he tweeted. “The sub is probably one of the most complete documents of this era in modern politics.”
Others are eager for its removal. “Reddit admins are bending over backwards to not ban /r/The_Donald,” Twitter user @NigmaNoname wrote. “Just ban it already.”
Reddit did not immediately respond to the Daily Dot’s request for comment.
That’s what happens when you rely on leftist tech lords to communicate with each other.
This is election interference.
Barr should crack down.
Congress should have hearings.
Reddit is a fascist site. The_Donald is the best thing going over there. 90% of the rest is leftist trash.
Yep. They did the same thing to take down 8chan. The new research site is mostly nasty business. They’re trying to take it down as well. They post truly disgusting pics. Bots seem to rule. Some Bakers comped also.
Come to Free Republic, fellas.
It's time for some fresh (and younger) blood.
They have a backup site at https://thedonald.win/.
Reddit is 10% foreign owned, this is foreign election interference.
That’s what happens when you rely on leftist tech lords to communicate with each other.
No, that’s what happens when you have no opposition party to the progressive-corporist alliance that Big Tech is a cornerstone of.
Yep, I’m there! Create d my account there a long time ago. They’ve been planning this for a while.
r/the_donald is really dead now though... appears to be stuck.. hasn’t moved in over an hour. This is very sad— that subreddit has been a non-stop 24/7 Trump Rally since Trump announced in 2015 !!! ... or really soon thereafter.
As the article mentions, it’s a historical record.
dot win has a lot of promise — it looks sort of like Reddit, too, but it’s molasses right now. Needs a lot of work! I’m sure the new onslaught in traffic isn’t helping...
No subreddit has ever been brought back from a quarantine. It’s been over for along time. Another social media censorship move that Trump will monitor.
Reddit has been carefully (or not so carefully), driven by revisionists, cultural Marxists, and socialists from the beginning.
I wish I could find a place where I can freely express my conservative views < / sarc>
The Donals is the only thing worth reading on Reddit. The Donald dot win is a good option. People without a life feel intimidated by people with energy and life. Age old story. Let the dead bury the dead. Something better than Reddit will be created soon.
Thanks Reddit for helping keep a Lenten resolution:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-generalaudience-lent-insults-idUSKCN20K1O7?taid=5e5681f9ee23af00013b37a9&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
I only go on so I can troll the profs. I’ve triggered quite a few, and it’s pretty awesome when you feed them facts. Utterly glorious.
That’s “progs”...Stupid autocorrect strikes again.
“r/the_donald is really dead now though”
That is stunning. A post 3 hours ago, two posts 5 hours ago, then next is 8 hrs, then 11 hrs. These normally get posted several per minute.
Might finally be the fascist ending many predicted.
Mentioned once here but be sure to visit
Thedonald.win
Knowing there’d be shenanigans pre-election the kids maintained a backup site.
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