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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.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: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:02AM (5 children)
The moment that would happen, all the major US companies will move their business elsewhere.
Rightly so, because they are responsible to their stockholders, not to Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:20AM (4 children)
The moment after every American corporation expatriates, they all start paying huge tariffs if they ever want to do business in America. You know every corporation wants that sweet American slice of the advertising pie, after all, Americans are dumb shit consumers with money to burn.
Face it, libertarian dumb fuck. Sovereign states have vastly more power than you and your corporate cronies. Your precious little corporations exist only because the state allows them to exist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:34AM
Not enough money to burn after the 0.1%-ters take their money away.
See?... nobody to trickle down money, so no more money to burn, US becomes Somalia.
This is the bed the 'muricans made for themselves to lay in and dream the 'murican dream.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:16AM (2 children)
Until those business start telling people en mass that so-and-so is unavailable or too expensive because of their government policies. Stoke a popular revolt just enough on both sides and watch them do all the hard work. A few members of the leadership run out of town, so to speak, and the rest will be kissing that corporate ass to make the pain stop.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Pav on Sunday July 05 2020, @02:48PM (1 child)
You mean like Napster?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @06:11AM
No, like Montana Power. A cautionary tale, if ever there was.