Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by xienze on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:30PM (#23681523)

> Doesn't the fact that finding instances of violent rhetoric among alt-right posters, regardless of context, sorta make the case that maybe this is an endemic problem and not a purely political suppression?

No? Because in an anonymous online forum anyone can just hop in and drop a “... kill em all!” message and whoops, there goes your forum. It’s impossible to prevent, at best you can only react to it. You are completely at the mercy of admins as to whether or not they believe such content is “inherent” to your community, and surprise surprise, they do.

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by proverbialbunny on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:10AM (#23686465)

If someone dropped a message like that they'd get banned.

What happens when a large chunk of the community is like that and moderators are not keeping harassment down?

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Re:Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r... by newacct583 on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:08PM (#23682080)

Except, again, this doesn't happen on other large left-leaning forums at Reddit. When was the last time /r/twoxchromosomes brigaded the voting at /r/news to attack an inconvenient story? When was the last time a mod on /r/relationships was banned for hate speech?

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