Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

Post by cactus2093 » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #50

parliament32 wrote: post #9

Whether you agree with the move or not, it's funny how Reddit's stance has changed over time. Under the old ownership, 2012: "At reddit we care deeply about not imposing ours or anyone elses’ opinions on how people use the reddit platform. We are adamant about not limiting the ability to use the reddit platform even when we do not ourselves agree with or condone a specific use. We have very few rules here on reddit;…

The internet (and Reddit itself) was rather different in 2012.

Post by stu2b50 » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

pyronik19 wrote: post #75

kylebenzle wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Users won't allow for (use) decentralized platforms until there is a good way to censor them. Once that happens, what would be the point of switching. Facebook and Reddit are successful BECAUSE they are censorship machines. Facebook spends far more man hours on "curating" content compared to engineering. Same with Reddit. Add up all the "moderation" time spent removing negative or controversial posts and I bet much m…

Reddit particularly used to be a free speech platform where anything could go and then used network effects to gain dominance. Now that they have dominance they now implement censorship of right wing views comments. This is true for Facebooks deboosting capabilities.

Post by NelsonMinar » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

parliament32 wrote: post #9

Whether you agree with the move or not, it's funny how Reddit's stance has changed over time. Under the old ownership, 2012: "At reddit we care deeply about not imposing ours or anyone elses’ opinions on how people use the reddit platform. We are adamant about not limiting the ability to use the reddit platform even when we do not ourselves agree with or condone a specific use. We have very few rules here on reddit;…

Post by pyronik19 » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #38

jeremiahhs wrote: post #26

The article is incorrect. "racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, glorification of violence and conspiracy theories that flourished there." That can be seen in all political subreddits - even the favored /r/politics. Those forms of hate were not condoned in T_D. But if washpo wants to rewrite history, they can try. T_D was banned because reddit hates the policies Trump was elected to enact.

There's a difference between hate speech occasionally being found in a subreddit and a subreddit existing principally as a platform for hate speech. the_donald was unambiguously the latter.

Post by SketchySeaBeast » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #35

It was largely empty after the quarantine. I always wondered what the actual population of that sub was, I felt like I saw some strange patterns where whole hordes of users would appear, disappear, mob another sub and so on. It felt like a very non organic community in many ways. The issues surroundings that sub weren't just some folks who had a sub to talk to each other, they were very busy mobbing / taking over oth…