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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:58PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @04:58PM (#1016538)

    They *will* come for you. Are all of your post friendly? *all* of them? Make no mistake they are coming for you and using shame as their tool to get you in line.

    The_donald is bonkers that is for sure. But hate speech? Not so much. Bonkers absolutely. It called out the 'left' on exactly what they were doing. The 'left' did not like it, so therefor it is hateful. As they wrongly believed that free speech is when they get to shut/shout/mock someone into submission. I used it as a pretty way to get news. They usually broke stories sometimes 2-3 months before the mainstream would pick it up. the_donald was talking about 'whuhan' virus last November. The left media was talking about impeachment.

    Think about this. They boxed the_donald for a joe job of calling out police violence and saying 'lets go get em'. You know pretty much what every reddit sub is doing right now, today. Then in 1984 style changed the rules to make sure they still broke them. Orwell called these sorts of folk out in a few stories. Because he saw how they worked. He showed them to the rest of the world how these people act. You are seeing in real time the erasure and re-writting of history. They are taking your history from you. At some point you *will* be on the wrong side of this. They will say 'oh well can not make an omelet without breaking some eggs' shrug their shoulders and steam on over you and your rights that you now casually discard.

    People who 'leave' the left realize something. The left are the hateful ones. The left are the bigots. The left can not tolerate free speech. The left will not talk to you. They will cut you off and just not talk to you anymore. All for saying crazy bonkers things like 'i might vote for trump'.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP2bPmJJvB4 [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj3vRdHHdsw [youtube.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUrYG_1FhU [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMHPqcaFjgQ [youtube.com]

    If you think this is 'new'
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZXpmYJc6QY [youtube.com] how a Republican turned a crap city into a good one and why he converted to do it, we made movies how we were going to wall it off as prison as a joke!
    https://youtu.be/e-y0MtreTb4?t=213 [youtu.be] This guy has been talking about this since the early 90s. At this point he is rather angry.

    "Republicans are not what you think they are, they may just disagree on some things with you". Thats it. They are not 'evil'. They are not 'the devil'. Republicans have a different idea how to help the poor (hint: it is teach a man to fish way). Republicans take progressive ideas and step them 4 steps out and say 'how can we do this without taking away other rights'. As it is very easy to create terrible structures where graft is rampant. You hand someone a fat stack o cash. That cash will run out, trust me I have tried may times with friends a family. How do you get it so that stack of cash does not empty out on them? It is not hateful to say welfare has trapped 3 generations of people in it. The people in it will tell you that. But how do fix that when no one will let you change anything other to add more money by yelling you down as a racist bigot for doing it? The republicans look at their history and the democrat party wants to erase it. Because 'they look bad'. Instead of learning from it.

    The left refuses to even discuss the root cause of things. They want to blame 'whitey' but anything else is 'racist'. The left has created a form of racism that is even more of a monster. They use shame and PC to control us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeMYQe8OjlA [youtube.com] This guy is heartbroken that no one can talk to each other about what is really going on. Instead we have put on pedestals people who are even worse than what they espouse what they hate.

    What is this language they dump upon us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p26iYovdLbw [youtube.com]

    If you ignore all the other videos at least watch this one.
    Why did they change what they are doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYabDlZSWOE [youtube.com]

    I read many of the posts here. You are enabling this behavior. Yes you. They will come for you the second you step out of line.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @06:55PM (#1016582)

    and some communist bitch modded you troll to prove the point.

    • (Score: -1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:21PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:21PM (#1016595)

      This communist bitch, you looser Boomer libertariantard! Republicans are racist white Scrooges, and their party is to be left in the dustbin of history! Personal responsibility? Don't make us laugh! Thieves, liars, Nixon, Bolton, Cheney, Trump, Scalia, Attila, Florida Man, they are all in this for the evil. If you do not want to be modded "troll" you best move along to Gab, or the misspelled Parlé.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @06:31AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @06:31AM (#1016869)

        Coming for ya, AC! Time to check your bug-out bag! What ya gonna do, when we come for you? I know what you are thinking, "what a time for the TV show "Cops" to be cancelled!" Just when you had a chance of being a reality TV star, just like the Donald, but with less great hare.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:02PM (#1016649)

    History of the World described the Republican response to the poor perfectly. https://youtu.be/MqkT4B-9MGk [youtu.be]

  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday July 06 2020, @12:31AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday July 06 2020, @12:31AM (#1016741)

    ...It [the_donald] called out the 'left' on exactly what they were doing...

    There is, in the US, no "the left" - just "the right" and "Holy Shit! I didn't know the scale could go so far!"

    --
    It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:53PM (#1016991)

    This thread proves the previous one. All the knuckeheads banned elsewhere have come to SN because it is the only well maintained news site left that has anonymous posting.

    This was less of a problem with the usenet format because there was a lot more volume since the whole of the Internet just used one forum framework. And yes it was tech firms that killed that. Google bought out the biggest usenet to web gateway on the Internet and fragged it. (the detritus of that targetted killing is now groups.google.com) But mostly it was just that running innd was expensive for ISP's, and they didn't want to carry it. So it became an add-on service run by specialists instead of a free one that was included with regular Internet service.

    The issue really is storage capacity costs. If your paying to maintain shit, then you have to concern yourself with moderation just from a capacity management standpoint. So cost recovery models pressure you towards moderation. Torrent architecture fixed that to some degree. But the front end still anchors the site to a domain, which is the ultimate censor tool, and a definative basis for mass surveillance.

    A ciphered many to many transport, storage, and name resolution architecture is really the only way to go for future forum iterations IMHO. Either that or finally repair the TCP/IP stack. Probably the former is cheaper.