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posted by martyb on Sunday July 05 2020, @05:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the children-behave-♫♫ dept.

Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans `The_Donald' Subreddit

Reddit has banned 2000 subreddits, including "The Donald" for hate speech.

Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit

"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.”

Also at:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-bans-hundreds-subreddits-hate-speech-including-trump-community-n1232408
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/

Twitch, Reddit Crack Down on Trump-Linked Content as Industry Faces Reckoning

Twitch, Reddit crack down on Trump-linked content as industry faces reckoning:

Video streaming platform Twitch temporarily suspended President Donald Trump's channel and social media site Reddit banned a longtime forum used by his supporters in separate actions Monday aimed at curtailing hateful content that come as the tech industry grapples with its handling of the president.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a post that the r/The_Donald forum, which boasted over 790,000 subscribers as of earlier Monday, has been shuttered for frequent rule-breaking, antagonizing the company and other communities and for failing to “meet our most basic expectations.” Huffman said it’s one of about 2,000 newly banned forums — known as subreddits — including at least one prominent progressive community, as part of a broader crackdown aimed at “closing the gap between our values and our policies to explicitly address hate.”

“All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith,” Huffman wrote. “We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity.” Reddit said the ban took effect at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

Twitch, a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant Amazon, confirmed on Monday that it has separately suspended Trump's campaign channel on the platform for posting videos that ran afoul of its rules against content that “promotes, encourages or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment or violence” based on an individual’s identity.

A company spokesperson said the channel violated its rules by rebroadcasting a video of Trump's 2015 event kicking off his presidential candidacy, in which he referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists." At the time, Trump said, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," adding, "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:12AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:12AM (#1016408)

    Where does SoylentNews stand in the tech industry? Oh that's right. You don't. You fuckers don't fucking exist. You're just a bunch of fucking Boomer nobodies with a Linode account and a cloned copy of Slashcode which you use to push your libertarian agenda. Trump wouldn't care to take a shit on your pathetic "Libertarian News For Boomers" site.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:28AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:28AM (#1016409)

    This shit seriously runs on Linode? Holy shit, that explains the downtimes.

    Iean yeah I understand costs vs uptime, I'm just fucking with y'all.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:53AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:53AM (#1016412)

      SoylentNews is run by miserly Boomers who fund their libertarian paradise through cyberbegging because they won't spend a penny of their pensions that they can't scam out of everyone else instead.

  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:05AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:05AM (#1016414)

    We may be pathetic, we may be a smaller site, we may even run on a cloned forked copy of Slashcode.

    What's definitely true though is your desperate flailing about spamming the site is far more pathetic than we could ever be.

    For fuckers that don't exist, we're clearly getting under your skin somehow......

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:43AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:43AM (#1016426)

      You have quite the inflated ego if you think you're getting under my skin. I'm just killing time while I wait for rabid nationalist cocksuckers to stop blowing rockets to commemorate the worst country ever created in the entire history of the world. America, FUCK YEAH.

      • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @12:20PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @12:20PM (#1016482)

        Not the worst, but statistically pretty far from the best. Except for military, we build a fuckload of that.

    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:04PM

      by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:04PM (#1016610)

      And thanks to you, today I learned the word for the sensation of having ants under your skin [psychologytoday.com].

      Spoiler alert:

      It's frequently associated with chronic drug use.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:21AM (#1016419)

    You fuckers don't fucking exist.

    Your post is an illusion, you are speaking to one of your imaginary personalities. Or viceversa.
    Tell ye what, go on slashdot and be real and somebody.