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Re:New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results re... by noelsusman on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:02AM (#31040360)
IMO Chapo was banned as a misguided attempt at balance for banning /r/The_Donald, though it's not like they weren't an unruly bunch. Calls for violence weren't exactly unheard of there, ironic or not.

The rest of those are just banning discussions of illegal activity. Seems like a reasonable policy to me.

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Re:New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results re... by Miner49er on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:21AM (#31040569)
Trading beer and scotch isn't illegal, is it though? Neither is buying guns, or visiting/discussing dark net markets.

And it's not like there aren't thousands of other subs that discuss illegal activity. They haven't banned all the drug subs, or the hacking subs, etc. Pretty much any illegal activity you can still find subs for it. /r/streetracing, /r/piracy, etc.

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Re:New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results re... by fsckboy on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:29PM (#31047226)
> IMO Chapo was banned as an attempt at balance for the misguided banning of /r/The_Donald

FTFY

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Re:New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results re... by noelsusman on Saturday April 16, 2022 @01:07AM (#31049660)
Nah. If anything that subreddit was kept around for way too long in a misguided attempt to not appear biased.
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