Posted on 01/27/2021 3:30:32 PM PST by TigerClaws
Discord has banned the r/WallStreetBets server, the company confirmed to The Verge. Reddit’s WallStreetBets subreddit is the driver of an unprecedented rally of GameStop stock, and has received a great deal of attention in the press as the stock continues to soar.
Discord says it did not ban the server for financial fraud — rather, it was banned because it continued to allow “hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.” The Verge gained access to the server and can confirm the claim that users of the channel were spamming hateful language, including racial slurs.
Here is Discord’s full statement:
The server has been on our Trust & Safety team’s radar for some time due to occasional content that violates our Community Guidelines, including hate speech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation. Over the past few months, we have issued multiple warnings to the server admin.
Today, we decided to remove the server and its owner from Discord for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.
To be clear, we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks. Discord welcomes a broad variety of personal finance discussions, from investment clubs and day traders to college students and professional financial advisors. We are monitoring this situation and in the event there are allegations of illegal activities, we will cooperate with authorities as appropriate.
r/WallStreetBets describes itself as “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal,” and many comments on the subreddit contain offensive language.
So bye bye to the platform to shut up the peons.
Hoping Reddit is sued for a billion as they booted the_donald off the site last year.
I guess they don’t allow no discord...
The crackdown on speech continues....
that WSB meme of joke doing cramer’s mad money was awesome.
rummy chick had a link to it, let me see if I can find it before it’s vaporized for committing satire.
here ya go.
hope it still works. scroll down till you see :WSB gets emotional on Mad Mondy” meme (closed captioned. no audio)
>> hateful and discriminatory content
My only problem with such content is its abuse of digital oxygen.
Prolly bogus allegations anyways...
When the SEC can’t move fast enough to protect Swamp hedge funds, they get their Assh@le tech cronies to do it instead.
This is damage control, nothing more.
If there is one thing the ‘hedge fund types’ can afford it’s lawyers.
Discord is trying to avoid those lawyers.
The whole thing has been fun to watch...all the outrage over the ‘little guy’ punching the tribe right in the nose.
Going scorched earth. Can’t have Joe Blow making any money.
I wondered when the hedge fund mafia would put a stop to this. How is it even legal for hedge fund managers to conspire against corporations to devalue their stock, damage the company and defraud stockholders? It’s like fixing the odds on sports betting, but the real victim is all of our 401K’s. Can’t have the little people interfering with the hedge fund billionaires’ market manipulation.
This de-platforming isn’t just about free speech, it’s about free markets vs fixed markets. Your investments and retirement fund are just a toy for these folks to play with and steal from.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3929170/posts?page=44#44
Like what?
you cant get into the site now but I dug it up elsewhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTCB0ud2zM&ab_channel=TeslaDaily
Thanks. Suddenly this story was everywhere and it seemed I was the only one who didn’t know what was going on LOL!
r/wallstreetbets is having trouble too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/l6ap72/rstocks_in_read_only_mode/
Dang, now they will just have to communicate by text message or Signal, or Telegram, or ...
I did some stuff today and I won’t be surprised if my trades get canceled.
Sub has been set to private or banned as well.
There is a new one already. It’s the Wild West over there
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