"/r/The_Donald is a subreddit on Reddit where the participants create discussions and memes supportive of U.S. presidentDonald Trump.[1][2] Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's presidential campaign, the community has grown to over 700,000 subscribers and, as of September 2017,[needs update] is ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit.[3][4][5]"
Apparently 2 days ago media matters did a story on the sub reddit>>>>> https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump-subreddit-is-full-of-calls-for-violence-in-support-of-Oregon-Republicans/224018
Tim pool just covered it, happened today. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50nPHVTXuZY
On the first day of the democratic debates... this is stupid. Censorship is bs, thoughts?
Yeah, I don't like seeing this stuff taken down. A group you don't like may be shut out today, but tomorrow it may be one you do. People kind of expect Reddit to be a cespool of garbage anyway.
Now that said, people also need to understand that websites are private entities and not some kind of public forum with 1st amendment protections. Reddit's primary obligation is to make money. Anything they deem counterproductive to that goal is at risk of being removed. It may be time for right wing groups to start their own website with forums that allow any and all comments. They could fund themselves through donations like wikipedia to keep external advertisers from exerting influece over their content.
When you openly discuss assassination and murder, don't be surprised when you get a reaction.
No shit. Reddit is a private entity. Go cry 'freedom of speech' somewhere else. The educated here understand the context of the amendment. A bunch of cry baby self-made victims are sad they can't spread hate speech on other people's time or property with no recourse.
Yeah, I don't like seeing this stuff taken down. A group you don't like may be shut out today, but tomorrow it may be one you do. People kind of expect Reddit to be a cespool of garbage anyway.
Discussing ideology is one thing, calling for shooting cops and democrats is criminal.
The subreddit The_Donald was “quarantined” after users posted threats of violence against police officers and politicians in Oregon, administrators said.
derrrr
Republicans still confused why they get banned for spamming the N word or saying how they want to kill people.
Yeah, I don't like seeing this stuff taken down. A group you don't like may be shut out today, but tomorrow it may be one you do. People kind of expect Reddit to be a cespool of garbage anyway.
Discussing ideology is one thing, calling for shooting cops and democrats is criminal.
How is that difficult to understand?
this was the sub pages response
This is currently the most popular post
and this one is pretty popular since he made him self popular while trying to get crowder banned on youtube. Media Matters wrote the hit piece 2 days ago.
Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a progressive[2][3]501(c)(3), nonprofit organization, with the mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."[2][4] MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and political activist David Brock as a counterweight to the conservative Media Research Center.[5] It is known for its aggressive criticism of conservative journalists and media outlets, including its "War on Fox News."[6][7]
Democrats being tolerant by banning peoples freedom of speech per usual.
@jeezers said:
@br0kenrabbit said:
@judaspete said:
Yeah, I don't like seeing this stuff taken down. A group you don't like may be shut out today, but tomorrow it may be one you do. People kind of expect Reddit to be a cespool of garbage anyway.
Discussing ideology is one thing, calling for shooting cops and democrats is criminal.
How is that difficult to understand?
this was the sub pages response
This is currently the most popular post
and this one is pretty popular since he made him self popular while trying to get crowder banned on youtube. Media Matters wrote the hit piece 2 days ago.
Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a progressive[2][3]501(c)(3), nonprofit organization, with the mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."[2][4] MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and political activist David Brock as a counterweight to the conservative Media Research Center.[5] It is known for its aggressive criticism of conservative journalists and media outlets, including its "War on Fox News."[6][7]
They violated the TOS/Policy by threatening to violence against people. End of discussion.
You two have absolutely no argument.
“Recent behaviors including threats against the police and public figures is content that is prohibited by our violence policy,” a Reddit spokesperson said in a statement. “As a result, we have actioned individual users and quarantined the subreddit."
Over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs.
As we have discussed in the past, and as detailed in our content policy and moderator guidelines, we expect you to enforce against rule-breaking content. You’ve made progress over the last year, but we continue to observe and take action on a disproportionate amount of rule-breaking behavior in this community. We recognize that you do remove posts that are reported, but we are troubled that violent content more often goes unreported, and worse, is upvoted.
Since you're a shitpost troll who evidently doesn't know anything about reddit, let's make this perfectly clear. A quarantine means they close it to bot accounts and limit new subscriptions and exposure on the main pages. It doesn't mean the posters have to stop using it forever. The people there can still use it, and still post elsewhere on reddit. No one is being censored, they're being punished as a board for allowing multiple violations of the ToS. And subreddits such as /r/conservative are still untouched. So cut the bullshit about censorship.
At any rate though this is a good thing. T_D is a cesspool of bots and astroturfing that has been encouraging harassment and exploiting the sites upvoting system for years, while banning users for even the slightest dissent against their cancerous rhetoric. If anything, the real problem is that it wasn't cracked down upon sooner. Reddit has been, if anything, far too tolerant with T_D, when they have outright permalocked similar subreddit or their communities for threats, harassment, and hate speech.
@n64dd: yeah they are only tolerent of themselves, its ok tho it will bite them in the ass.
I dont even use reddit, reddit is ?.
But having media matters in desperate attack mode is funny. I'm sure they were terrified reading the donald sub reddit comments, truly terrified for thier lives, oooggabbooogaaa, 2019 digital book burners lol
On the first day of the democratic debates... this is stupid. Censorship is bs, thoughts?
That sub is a flaming dung hill of misinformation driven by people who's only interest in politics and government is to "own the libs". Also the mods on that sub censor anyone who says anything negative about the president.
@zaryia: You are always great about cutting through all the BS and going strait to the primary source with these stories. I've learned a lot from your posts these past few years. Thanks.
I want to see evidence. Calls for violence against the police get banned almost immediately. Just talking bad about cops will get you downvoted.
Anyone who has used the sub in any amount of regularity knows this is smells like bull. ALL we have is Reddits word, and people are lapping it up, cause orange man bad.
@zaryia: "No free speech is disabled in a quarantine. Next time they should follow Reddit's clear RULES and not threaten people with violence."
You mean like the violent Leftist anarchist/Antifa reddit group/s which openly discuss battle tactics for fighting people on the streets? I read through it myself, will get you a link if you'd like. I highly doubt it has been quarantined.
You could also provide evidence for The Donald's support of violent provocation. Fact is, big tech openly lies in order to censor its political enemies. Such as in the clear case of Tommy Robinson's removal from facebook. They listed a bunch of things he'd supposedly did, including calling for the killing of Muslims, without providing evidence, which is absurd as an offence of that kind would have been extremely high profile and would have resulted in an IMMEDIATE banning, rather than this delayed ban where it was added to a dossier of other offences.
But you guys just love big tech and mindlessly trust it. Yay for the corporations amirite.
(Also Quarantine limits the groups reach and is therefore a degree of censorship. But this isnt an isolated case, far from it, it's part of a clear trend. Government regulation is obviously required now.)
I want to see evidence. Calls for violence against the police get banned almost immediately. Just talking bad about cops will get you downvoted.
Anyone who has used the sub in any amount of regularity knows this is smells like bull. ALL we have is Reddits word, and people are lapping it up, cause orange man bad.
50 times T_D has called for violence or sitewide rulebreaking.
Multiple instances of asking for execution of the acting secretary of the DHS
I don't know who you're kidding but anyone who uses reddit knows this happens. Some posts get deleted, not all of them, and regardless, condoning a community that encourages violence regularly is against reddit's ToS.
I don't know who you're kidding but anyone who uses reddit knows this happens.
The reichwing has their head so far up their asses the only light they can see is what's streaming in through their flapping lips. You can't reason with them because they are not reasonable. They're like a chemical reaction: no thought just fire.
I don't know who you're kidding but anyone who uses reddit knows this happens.
The reichwing has their head so far up their asses the only light they can see is what's streaming in through their flapping lips. You can't reason with them because they are not reasonable. They're like a chemical reaction: no thought just fire.
You can't reason with them because you ban them everywhere. XD I hope they don't actually ban them. It would set things up for escalation.
@Vaasman: I'm sorry, where in that list is there any death threats to the police? Cause I don't see any. Just a bunch of hot air.
Daklure 53 points - 1 day ago Hopefully all State Police in Oregon refuse, hes serious. No problems shooting a cop trying to strip rights from Citizens. If he calls for help I'd come.
@Vaasman: I'm sorry, where in that list is there any death threats to the police? Cause I don't see any. Just a bunch of hot air.
lol what so no rebuttal for multiple calls for violence across the community of their board? Sure, granted, I haven't yet found the literal straw that broke the camel's back in this instance. But where is your defense for these multiple calls of violence from multiple users? Or defense for their brigading, subreddit invasion, and other marked rules violations? Where is your defense for banning literally any user who doesn't agree with their Trump-based shitposting? Need I remind you reddit has outright banned subreddits for this kind of material or less, and they got slapped with a mere quarantine, and you are still bitching?
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