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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: 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.