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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: 1) by hemocyanin on Monday July 06 2020, @01:09AM (5 children)
So are you talking about RussiaRussiaRussia or the white nationalist who ran over two people on I-5 in Seattle this weekend?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @04:33AM (2 children)
You mean this white nationalist of Somali origin?
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/07/04/dawit-kelete-suspected-cia-usaid-playboy-assassin-in-seattle-high-speed-ramming-his-social-media/ [veteranstoday.com]
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by hemocyanin on Tuesday July 07 2020, @08:59AM (1 child)
Exactly,
(Score: 1, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Tuesday July 07 2020, @09:02AM
Well -- not exactly that piece of conspiracy theory. But it was interesting to watch the narrative unfold until we got to the point where instead of "white male" all the legacy media could say is "white car".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @03:55PM (1 child)
Actually the driver has a pretty good case. Clearly the protest wasn't permitted because the roadblock cars weren't cop cars. Second, the road probably was placarded 70/45 or "no slow moving traffic".
So the people who put up an incompetent road block are accessories to manslaughter, and the peds were injured because they broke the law. So the driver is up for maybe negligence, because he should have been able to stop. But the manslaughter charges are on the first crime. Which was doing a half assed job of blocking a highway.
Christ, at the very least they could have put some extra lights on the fucking van. They turned the vehicles sideways so the head and taillights didn't face the oncomming traffic. They might as well have just put a timber log across the road.
I almost got creamed by a cement trailing because of something similar. The tail lights were narrowly spaced, and it was foggy. From a distance it looked like a vehicle much much further away. His trailer was not in conformance with safety standards, so it would have been his fault if I hit him.
The accident was caused by the owners of the roadblock cars. The state has a standard for putting up safe roadblocks. My guess is in this state it was publicly available on the Internet. The roadblock didn't make ANY effort to conform to the standard. It was therefore criminally negligent. The resulting homicides would be the result of that criminal negligence, and the respective deaths therefore manslaughter. the driver was an unwilling participant.
That is the argument I would make. And he/she will probably get off, (and should) because the jury will all have had near run ins with dumbass's on the highway.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @05:15PM
Remember, this happened in the city that withdrew police and left the mob to rule part of it. If a demonstration for POC want to occupy a major highway in the middle of the night, then they can certainly do so in Seattle.
The driver being a POC himself won't help him here.
#BLM