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Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
NYT ^ | June 29, 2020 | Mike Isaac

Posted on 06/29/2020 10:16:45 AM PDT by Stravinsky

SAN FRANCISCO — Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, on Monday banned its biggest community devoted to President Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech policies.

The community or “subreddit,” called “The_Donald,” is home to more than 790,000 users who post memes, viral videos and supportive messages about Mr. Trump. Reddit executives said the group, which has been highly influential in cultivating and stoking Mr. Trump’s online base, had consistently broken its rules by allowing people to target and harass others with hate speech.

“Reddit is a place for community and belonging, not for attacking people,” Steve Huffman, the company’s chief executive, said in a call with reporters. “‘The_Donald’ has been in violation of that.”

Reddit said it was also banning roughly 2,000 other communities from across the political spectrum, including one devoted to the leftist podcasting group “Chapo Trap House,” which has about 160,000 regular users. The vast majority of the forums that are being banned are inactive.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ban; censorship; culturalrevolution; fascism; parler; reddit; thedonald; trump; twitter
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The last paragraph in the excerpt about banning others is really just cover for Reddit's actions. Every major subreddit on Reddit has been turned into an anti-Trump subreddit over the past couple of years.
1 posted on 06/29/2020 10:16:45 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky
Election tampering.

Any result in November other than a Trump victory is election meddling and vote fraud.

2 posted on 06/29/2020 10:19:28 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Stravinsky

That is pathetic since the left always attacks and calls for death to people who they do not agree with.


3 posted on 06/29/2020 10:19:28 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Stravinsky

Blatant Censorship.


4 posted on 06/29/2020 10:19:29 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Stravinsky

well reddit has been a POS for years now so #### em.

We all said another site would take advantage of all this nonsense.

Parler. CEO says anything that can be said on a NY street can be said on his site. I can’t imagine that leaves anything out, being as I live here :)


5 posted on 06/29/2020 10:19:40 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: Stravinsky

Most of the people shouting out against hate speech are the most guilty of it, whatever it is.


6 posted on 06/29/2020 10:20:25 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Stravinsky
The November election is void.

Trump is elected to a second term as of NOW.

7 posted on 06/29/2020 10:20:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: usconservative

Felony election tampering.


8 posted on 06/29/2020 10:21:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Stravinsky

The community or “subreddit,” called “The_Donald,” is home to more than 790,000 users...

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No it’s not. All those users left for https://thedonald.win/ a few months ago. They knew this banning was going to happen.

Banning it now looks petty and stupid to those in the know.


9 posted on 06/29/2020 10:23:12 AM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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To: Stravinsky

It had been ‘quarantined’. Now it has been banned for “violating rules 1,2,& 8”. They have a little judge’s gavel to let you know this is serious.


10 posted on 06/29/2020 10:26:04 AM PDT by hanamizu
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They moved to thedonald.win

They got tired of Reddit BS.


11 posted on 06/29/2020 10:26:05 AM PDT by Mustard (tt)
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To: Moonman62

Exactly. We left along time ago lol.


12 posted on 06/29/2020 10:26:31 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Information Warfare)
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To: hanamizu

LOL. So they do. Hilariously pathetic.


13 posted on 06/29/2020 10:27:47 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: Moonman62

Per the website, thedonald.win is also being hammered with DDOS attacks today.

Quelle coinkydink.


14 posted on 06/29/2020 10:34:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Stravinsky

For the commie left, ANYONE that disagrees with them is perpetrating hate speech..that is the new definition


15 posted on 06/29/2020 10:39:15 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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It’s ok. The White House continues to monitor the situation.


16 posted on 06/29/2020 10:46:13 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Stravinsky

The_Donald pretty much got Trump elected.

So, of course they have to shut it down.

I thought they already had.


17 posted on 06/29/2020 10:48:26 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Stravinsky

They banned a dead sub, everyone left for TheDonald.win months ago.


18 posted on 06/29/2020 10:48:53 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
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To: Stravinsky
Most of us have migrated to TheDonald.Win anyway. Come on over. If Cloudflare allows you (it's blocked at work, but works on my phone).
19 posted on 06/29/2020 10:50:33 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: Moonman62; Mustard

Beat me to it. Thanks.


20 posted on 06/29/2020 10:51:18 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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