Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit [View all]
Source: NYT
SAN FRANCISCO Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, on Monday banned its biggest community devoted to President Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech policies.
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. Trumps 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 companys chief executive, said in a call with reporters. The_Donald has been in violation of that.
Reddit said it was also banning roughly 2,000 other communities from across the political spectrum, including one devoted to the leftist podcasting group Chapo Trap House, which has about 160,000 regular users. The vast majority of the forums that are being banned are inactive.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/reddit-hate-speech.html
Good riddance to "The_Donald" on Reddit.
And I don't mind them banning the forum devoted to the sleazy Chapo Trap House, either.