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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: 2) by Username on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:01AM (5 children)

    by Username (4557) on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:01AM (#1016431)

    It's almost like Trump is coming up for reelection.

    Isn't hating a speech from 2015... hate speech? Why didn't they ban it in... 2015?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:14AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:14AM (#1016438) Journal

    Why didn't they ban it in... 2015?

    They gave His Orangeness enough rope to hang himself.
    And so he did [pewresearch.org]

    As the United States simultaneously struggles with a pandemic, an economic recession and protests about police violence and racial justice, the share of the public saying they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country has plummeted from 31% in April, during the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, to just 12% today.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:31PM (2 children)

      by tangomargarine (667) on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:31PM (#1016533)

      the share of the public saying they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country has plummeted from 31% in April, during the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, to just 12% today.

      How is this statistic actually useful? "I think everything is going fine" is very different than "I think Trump is doing a good job".

      You can think everything in the crapper without thinking it's Trump's fault.

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      "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 Monday July 06 2020, @12:26AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:26AM (#1016737)

        You can think everything in the crapper without thinking it's Trump's fault

        ... if you don't watch the news.

        • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday July 06 2020, @02:36PM

          by tangomargarine (667) on Monday July 06 2020, @02:36PM (#1017047)

          Or you just watch Fox News.

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          "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:52PM (#1017096)

      Here is how to know you are on the 'right side'.

      You are the one not trying to burn books and censor everyone around you. You are looking at openly Marxists saying the 1st amendment is bad for some people but not others. That your right to free speech is not inalienable. But can be controlled. Oh but they can censor because it is a private corporation. Dipstick ideas like that. These ideas are meant to let you dismiss people. Ignore their ideals. Ignore what they have to say. Trump has been pretty much 100% clear on his ideals. Lets get American jobs instead of shipping the overseas and importing illegal aliens to pay under the table and keep both groups in fear of their jobs.

      The founding fathers were lawyers. The first 10 items on the bill of rights read nearly as a complaint list against the Crown. They knew exactly how to take someones rights away and keep control. They were the English lawyers who did it. They knew exactly how to dismantle oppression. Because they were the boots on the ground to enforce what the King came up with.

      If you wanted to subvert the rights of the people attack those 10 items. It is how previous generations did it. They created that list as rules to follow. Marxists throw that out. They hate us because their shit ideology failed. They turned their backs on logic and turned to feelings to make it work. Because it must work. They feel it in their bones. Do not trust these liars who take words to make them mean something else. They will come for you and take what you say out of context and make you pay for it. There is no repentance to these people, you are scum. It is like the story of the Air Force trying to come up with the average flight suit. They did, and it fit nobody. Because there is something everyone has. No one is the idealized man that must exist and everyone must be for Marxism to exist.

      to just 12% today
      Yeah it sure was the 'orange man' who did this. Not my Mayor who is marching with the Marxists. Not my Mayor who closed all of the stores and restaurants. Not my mayor who is out helping paint the streets. Not my governor who is making everyone wear a mask which depending on the time of day may save every one or not do shit. Yep I am sure blaming the 'orange man'. The mayors and governors of our country are allowing this to go on. Take for example Seattle and its 'summer of love'. Gun shot wounds every night for a week straight. Who knows what else was going on. They show up at her house. Whole thing shut down and cleaned up in 2-3 days. That Mayor *LET* that chaos happen. She is not alone.

      You may or may not disagree with Trump but he has shown us exactly what the DNC is and what they stand for. It is not us. It is Marxists who give 2 shits about you or your family. They care about the power they think they are going to get not realizing they are what the KGB nicely called 'useful idiots'.