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https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-murder-cops-on-reddit-unless-youre-on-r-thedonald/ https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-can

https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-murder-cops-on-reddit-unless-youre-on-r-thedonald/ https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-... This article is probably what triggered it.

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egwynn 7y ago
Interestingly that article continuously refers to the sub as ‘r/TheDonald’ (which is about Donald Glover) instead of ‘r/The_Donald’ (which is the sub that’s been quarantined).
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- sdinsn 7y ago
  Looks like it's been corrected
  - egwynn 7y ago
    Hmmm mostly yeah. The title + 4th from last paragraph still have it wrong though.
    - bduerst 7y ago
      Probably auto-formatting that removes underscores.
- oh_sigh 7y ago
  It also refers to two posts on a thread which are impossible to find, because it doesn't reference user names, and the posts are apparently deleted now, and were not captured in the google cache of the page, or common reddit archiving sites(ceddit/removeddit). What if those two posts referenced in the article were written by the same person, and generally downvoted?
0815test 7y ago
Yup, thanks for linking this. These allegations seem quite serious, and contra claims by TD users on that subreddit, they actually go far beyond what we've seen on leftist, socialist etc. subs wrt. hostility towards police. (I've also seen some allegations that The_Donald's custom CSS was being used to hide/disguise the "report" links that are normally used to flag rules-violating comments - if so, this is clearly backfiring for them right now!) It's easy to say "T_D is toxic, blah blah" but this sort of extreme rhetoric is on a wholly different level that really wasn't there before.
- empath75 7y ago
  tbh i'd be okay with quarantining chapo trap house too
  - favorited 7y ago
    At least it's not as insufferable as /r/s4p (and really all of /r/politics) during the '16 primaries.
- basch 7y ago
  Dont you think "hostility towards police" and "violence against police officers" as phrases themselves are purposely under contextualizing whats going on, in a biased sort of way? 'A worldwide community supporting the violent threats of local militia backing their civilly disobedient politicians efforts to evade the government use of police force to mandate participation and speech' is a super interesting power dynamics story. Whos the oppressor in this story, government use of police force, militia chaos, insubordinate politicians holding process hostage? Is the use of police FORCE to strong arm their votes itself violence? Shouldnt people be banned for supporting police force? To Godwin's law this topic, would reddit choose to ban advocating prisoner violence towards auschwitz guards, in their efforts to escape? Would the rebels be banned for advocating destruction of the empire and violence towards storm troopers? It doesnt seem like there is a line drawn anywhere, it does appear arbitrary, or biased against violence they disagree with. The actual policy seems more like "ban what gets us bad press." If the rules were enforced consistently, rap music would be banned. I'm not pretending there are easy answers, even the supreme court has been looking at whether rap music is artistic or a credible threat, maybe they arent mutually exclusive. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court-rap-music.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court...

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egwynn 7y ago

Interestingly that article continuously refers to the sub as ‘r/TheDonald’ (which is about Donald Glover) instead of ‘r/The_Donald’ (which is the sub that’s been quarantined).

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sdinsn 7y ago
Looks like it's been corrected
- egwynn 7y ago
  Hmmm mostly yeah. The title + 4th from last paragraph still have it wrong though.
  - bduerst 7y ago
    Probably auto-formatting that removes underscores.
oh_sigh 7y ago
It also refers to two posts on a thread which are impossible to find, because it doesn't reference user names, and the posts are apparently deleted now, and were not captured in the google cache of the page, or common reddit archiving sites(ceddit/removeddit). What if those two posts referenced in the article were written by the same person, and generally downvoted?

0815test 7y ago

Yup, thanks for linking this. These allegations seem quite serious, and contra claims by TD users on that subreddit, they actually go far beyond what we've seen on leftist, socialist etc. subs wrt. hostility towards police. (I've also seen some allegations that The_Donald's custom CSS was being used to hide/disguise the "report" links that are normally used to flag rules-violating comments - if so, this is clearly backfiring for them right now!) It's easy to say "T_D is toxic, blah blah" but this sort of extreme rhetoric is on a wholly different level that really wasn't there before.

empath75 7y ago
tbh i'd be okay with quarantining chapo trap house too
- favorited 7y ago
  At least it's not as insufferable as /r/s4p (and really all of /r/politics) during the '16 primaries.
basch 7y ago
Dont you think "hostility towards police" and "violence against police officers" as phrases themselves are purposely under contextualizing whats going on, in a biased sort of way? 'A worldwide community supporting the violent threats of local militia backing their civilly disobedient politicians efforts to evade the government use of police force to mandate participation and speech' is a super interesting power dynamics story. Whos the oppressor in this story, government use of police force, militia chaos, insubordinate politicians holding process hostage? Is the use of police FORCE to strong arm their votes itself violence? Shouldnt people be banned for supporting police force? To Godwin's law this topic, would reddit choose to ban advocating prisoner violence towards auschwitz guards, in their efforts to escape? Would the rebels be banned for advocating destruction of the empire and violence towards storm troopers? It doesnt seem like there is a line drawn anywhere, it does appear arbitrary, or biased against violence they disagree with. The actual policy seems more like "ban what gets us bad press." If the rules were enforced consistently, rap music would be banned. I'm not pretending there are easy answers, even the supreme court has been looking at whether rap music is artistic or a credible threat, maybe they arent mutually exclusive. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court-rap-music.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court...