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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.”
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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."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:36AM (40 children)
With Trump in free-fall [fivethirtyeight.com] and no candidate as alternative to Trump, I don't see how the republicans will manage to do something in 4 months to the election.
Let them rest. In... whatever bed they made for themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Interesting) by deimtee on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:30AM (11 children)
Yeah, and nearly four years ago the media and democrat circle-jerk talked themselves into believing Hillary was 98% certain to win. Polls aren't worth shit when they are manipulated to produce the desired result, rather than actually measuring something.
I just wish the Democrats would run a good candidate instead of intentionally throwing the election.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:39AM
Nothing controversial enough this year around [pewresearch.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:48AM (5 children)
Actually, if I recall correctly, Hillary was about 1,999% certain to win, and Trump was 500% certain to commit hari kiri after losing the election.
Let the fools blow smoke about Trump, we saw how that worked last time around. He would have lost if the media just ignored him. ;^)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:51AM (2 children)
Calling this [soylentnews.org] a lesson learned or is it too early to tell? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:19PM (1 child)
That's just another example of the media NOT ignoring the fool.
If you go down to the town square, and the village idiot is experiencing diarrhea of the mouth, do you permit him to flap his gums in the air, or do you feel it necessary to silence him?
If you choose the latter, you have violated an ages old rule: Never argue with an idiot, because the people watching can't tell which is the idiot. Guess what? The idiot wins!! You have put yourself on his level, and he has a helluva lot more experience being an idiot than you do!! (or, does he?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @05:25PM
No one is arguing with your verbal diarrhea, Runaway. Get out of the town square! Time to go home and water the livestock.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Monday July 06 2020, @04:00AM
The function of polls is not to take the public pulse; it is to sway the undecided toward the "winning" side.
And a well-crafted poll can produce any result you care to pay for.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Touché) by FatPhil on Monday July 06 2020, @04:57AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:10AM (3 children)
The older I get, the more I am convinced that the Dems are the Washington Generals of American politics. It’s quickly becoming the only way they can consistently lose easy victories. They keep pulling tricks out of their hats to beat other Dems that don’t tow the line. Yet somehow they keep fumbling the ball, shooting air balls, Committing unforced errors, and scoring own goals.
An interesting side note about the polls though. If you actually look back at them, they did predict the correct outcome. The biggest mistakes they made were ignoring state polls, ignoring other poll predictors and trends to fit their narrative, and focusing on national polls when the election isn’t decided by the national popular vote.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @05:35PM (2 children)
Ol' Man River [wikipedia.org]
Towing the line is how you haul barges. Toeing the line is how you stand for the same things as others. Learn the difference, you degenerate illiterate deplorable!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @02:32AM (1 child)
So is it camel tow or camel toe?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @06:24AM
See? This is the result of having Betsy DeVos, Amway heiress, and camel tow extrodinaire, as the Sucretary of Edumacaton.
Mark Eckman [thoughtco.com]
Now if we can jest get back to building the boarder wall, and maggoting America grate again, oh, hmm!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @10:44AM (11 children)
They don't have to do anything. As long as the DNC continues to obsolete itself by putting forward characters even more unlikeable than Trump, even Mitch McConnell could become the next president.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @10:59AM (10 children)
I [pewresearch.org] wonder [pewresearch.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @12:23PM (4 children)
It is almost the same self-delusion they had last time. "The opponent is Trump, therefore we can get the murderous witch from hell elected". This time it is the "hair-sniffer". It doesn't matter if Biden is a more "likeable" hair-sniffer than Trump. The left wing idiots are doing it again, convincing themselves that they can't lose, because "Trump is literally Hitler", therefore we can get a hair-sniffing kiddie-toucher elected.
I don't like him, but with the pitiful opponents he has, I expect Trump to serve a second term.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @12:34PM (2 children)
Joe almost shoot his foot with his "You ain't black" and it's not impossible to shoot himself in the head, figuratively speaking, by election time, the way "basket of deplorables" Hillary did.
Anything else is deep in the past so, he's not yet at the "murderous witch", "we came, we saw, he died" level, but "a mediocre, no surprises president" - after Trump's streak of "winning", the American may see a mediocre POTUS as a refreshing idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @02:52PM (1 child)
Eh, he'll just hide out in his basement and let his handlers send out press releases. The key point will be the televised debates; will he bother to show (he'll lose, the debate I mean) or will he claim Covid fears and skip out? Not that it matters much; ever since he was first elected, I figured the main thing that could beat Trump was the economy. Doesn't matter how much it is or isn't his fault, that's usually what knocks down incumbent Presidents, and it's the main reason Biden has any chance at all.
As usual, though, any win -- no matter how slim -- will be declared "A Mandate From The People" and whoever wins will try to charge ahead in one of two idiotic directions.
I'll stick with voting third party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @09:53AM
Wise decision. You never know, maybe it's gonna become the second party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @06:27AM
Whal, iff'n you vote for Biden, y'all ain't white! Just saying, Billy Bo Bob! Now hold my beer wilst I set off this mortor and pestle.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:02AM (4 children)
My wife has TDS in a serious way, but after a month of watching rioters destroy, loot, burn, and exacerbate COVID, she said to me the other day -- "maybe Trump should win. This stuff is just unacceptable."
You can bet your bottom dollar, if she was called for a poll, even though she is harboring heretical thoughts, she would answer in a way that opposes Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:14AM (2 children)
She's right, Trump was at the helm at the time.
What exactly had Trump done to cool the things down and what was the result?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @02:35AM (1 child)
He may be a Russian puppet, but at least he didn't steal a pair of sneakers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:54AM
Keep going with RussiaRussiaRussia -- it gets more believable with repetition and you look more rational and intelligent the more often you say it.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @04:44AM
I wonder if that is Trump's campaign plan. He's pretty much abandoned governing since April, hasn't intervened with state governments to further a national reopening of the economy. The Democrats are driving social unrest, Talibaning our monuments, shitting on "racist" beliefs the people have in valuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They have all the media attention right now. But it is still four months until the election. Even the party conventions are still weeks away.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @11:59AM (2 children)
Jo Jorgensen (L)
Howie Hawkins (G)
Kanye West just made a vague announcement.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @12:24PM
My point exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @02:23PM
I thought it was a vogue announcement.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday July 05 2020, @02:15PM (1 child)
Maybe something like:
1) deny reality
2) cheat and lie
3) blame the other side
4) intervene
5) ???
6) win election
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday July 06 2020, @06:01AM
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday July 05 2020, @02:24PM (2 children)
Perhaps this bro will take most of blacks from Biden and even some liberal Musk fans? https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kanye-west-announces-hes-running-for-president-of-the-u-s-in-2020/ [usmagazine.com]
Whatever one might think about voting for Biden, it's definitely NOT cool.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:56PM (1 child)
Kanye West and Trump have both claimed to be "friends" with each other. A part of me wonders if this isn't a direct strategy by the machine to do try and do exactly what you allege.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @10:19PM
About time the Republicans started getting strategic, after the Democrats have been using social unrest to try and hurt Trump's administration.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 05 2020, @03:11PM (5 children)
Convenience sampling, dude. Don't trust the polls. If anything, I suspect someone is encouraging Kanye to run to split the black vote and damage Biden (and the more you think about that statement the more awful it gets, starting with "what fat sack of expired mayo in an ill-fitting suit decided Kanya was representative of black people?!").
We are past the point of anything making sense. I've been warning people for years that once we get to a certain point, all the system failures will start interacting and resonating, shaking everything apart even further. It's happening.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday July 05 2020, @03:17PM
That seems likely. Previously he had been talking about running in 2024, which would actually make sense, rather than declaring his candidacy 4 months before the election and not being able to get onto ballots in 6+ states.
https://deadline.com/2020/07/kanye-west-presidential-bid-july-4th-donald-trump-elon-musk-joe-biden-kim-kardashian-1202977608/ [deadline.com]
https://www.businessinsider.com/too-late-for-kanye-west-to-run-for-president-2020-7 [businessinsider.com]
Could also be marketing for an album.
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:35PM (3 children)
That's funny. I was thinking that Kanye was being encouraged to run in order to split the *crazy* vote and defeat Trump.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:25PM (2 children)
Nope. Kanye IS Trump for black folks, and their personal failings are chillingly similar. I have no doubt that they're both narcissists, for example, though I'd rather have Kanye than Trump in office if only because he doesn't seem to have gone senile yet.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:13PM
Yeah, I guess I underestimated the extent to which people will vote based on skin color or even if the guy is from their home state--like a lot of Republicans probably voted for Carter just because he was from Georgia.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @10:11AM
Kanye is nothing like Trump to black people. Prior to becoming reviled by a large portion of the American public during/after his presidential run, people looked up to Donald Trump, thought he was a great businessman, etc. Kanye was just Jay-Z's flunky, known for occasionally "acting black" in public and making sick beats.
(Score: 3, Troll) by tangomargarine on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:34PM (1 child)
Approval ratings in the 40s is "free fall"?
Man, are you feeling okay? Your statistics really suck today.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @05:39PM
40's is not the freefall, it is the 40's whoosing by and getting higher than Trump's approval ratings. We are talking about a Delta here, and the tragectory is in the downward vector.