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r/The_Donald was "quarantined", which is not banning but kinda. The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that.

ribosometronome 5y ago
They were eventually banned after the quarantine. But they also spent years promoting racism, hate, dangerous conspiracy theories, a neo-nazi rally that resulted in murder, etc. It's hard to look at all of that and think it was just "kind of taboo".
- wincy 5y ago
  I went to the Donald all the time to get a different perspective and if there was racism and hate any worse than /r/politicalhumor or /r/politics I never saw it.
  - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    I started doing the same after the Pulse Nightclub shooting when literally the rest of Reddit was censoring and preventing discussion because it was almost immediately known the shooter was Muslim. It was the only place you could go for a live thread and actual info. Over time, the signal to noise was low. But occasionally there was a good point or funny meme. I can't say for sure I saw any racism worse than anywhere else. I really don't like when people use whatever this is ((( ))) to talk about Jews, saw that a couple times on t_d, but I've definitely also seen it on /r/politics /r/atheism etc
  - RIMR 5y ago
    Or your are too ignorant of all the dogwhistles to realize how packed full of racists that place was.
    - InvertedRhodium 5y ago
      It's equally as possible that some people have become so overly sensitive to the idea of dog whistles that they see them everywhere, even when that wasn't the intent.
- theknocker 5y ago
  The provided reason for their quarantine was the users were linking to other content on Reddit too much. Your word salad of emotional, baseless claims is not only meaningless but irrelevant, yet you would have us take your word for it on who should be censored.
SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
> The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that. It was actually for "violence against police". Hillary Clinton's MediaMatters group found a few comments and made an article on it, this was pushed as far as possible, presenting Reddit with enough cause to "quarantine" them. The specific anti-police messages were about a congressional walkout in Oregon, and threats to use the police to bring them back for a quorum. A rep replied "Send bachelors". This was the cause and theme of the comments MediaMatters focused on. None were made by mods, their own posts, or even upvoted (under 20 or so). Reddit used this to say the mods there were not removing extremist content, eventually forcing the sub allow only mods "approved" by Reddit Inc. They shuttered the sub before allowing this to happen. The big joke to is that these anti-police messages were before the summer when it was non-stop ACAB, Kill The Police, etc, in practically every other sub-reddit as part of the riots and protests. Standards applied evenly, Reddit would be left with a knitting and a windsurfing section. Reddit wanted the_donald gone, end of story. MediaMatters helped, and the reason was surface level deep, but they didn't need some iron clad reason. Interestingly, Reddit removed the "violence against police" reasoning, and replaced it with a more generic cause, as the hypocrisy was warming up. I researched this shortly after it happened.
- wincy 5y ago
  Hah the funny you should say that about windsurfing, as the mod of the most popular surfing subreddit was banning anyone who posted in the Donald.
  - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    I'm sure there is some law for the most ridiculous example you can think of off the cuff, someone will find has been true somewhere. :) I never saw that back then, that subs would ban you for that, but recently I posted a negative comment to No New Normal. I was instantly banned from almost every popular reddit sub. A couple of them sent me a think saying they might unban me if I promised never to post there again. It wasn't a supportive comment, I was mocking one of them. How insane is it that the people that admin and mod Reddit are so fragile that they literally ban anyone who talks to people they don't like? This can't continue. I suppose I appreciate their acceleration.

ribosometronome 5y ago

They were eventually banned after the quarantine. But they also spent years promoting racism, hate, dangerous conspiracy theories, a neo-nazi rally that resulted in murder, etc. It's hard to look at all of that and think it was just "kind of taboo".

wincy 5y ago
I went to the Donald all the time to get a different perspective and if there was racism and hate any worse than /r/politicalhumor or /r/politics I never saw it.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  I started doing the same after the Pulse Nightclub shooting when literally the rest of Reddit was censoring and preventing discussion because it was almost immediately known the shooter was Muslim. It was the only place you could go for a live thread and actual info. Over time, the signal to noise was low. But occasionally there was a good point or funny meme. I can't say for sure I saw any racism worse than anywhere else. I really don't like when people use whatever this is ((( ))) to talk about Jews, saw that a couple times on t_d, but I've definitely also seen it on /r/politics /r/atheism etc
- RIMR 5y ago
  Or your are too ignorant of all the dogwhistles to realize how packed full of racists that place was.
  - InvertedRhodium 5y ago
    It's equally as possible that some people have become so overly sensitive to the idea of dog whistles that they see them everywhere, even when that wasn't the intent.
theknocker 5y ago
The provided reason for their quarantine was the users were linking to other content on Reddit too much. Your word salad of emotional, baseless claims is not only meaningless but irrelevant, yet you would have us take your word for it on who should be censored.

SV_BubbleTime 5y ago

> The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that. It was actually for "violence against police". Hillary Clinton's MediaMatters group found a few comments and made an article on it, this was pushed as far as possible, presenting Reddit with enough cause to "quarantine" them. The specific anti-police messages were about a congressional walkout in Oregon, and threats to use the police to bring them back for a quorum. A rep replied "Send bachelors". This was the cause and theme of the comments MediaMatters focused on. None were made by mods, their own posts, or even upvoted (under 20 or so). Reddit used this to say the mods there were not removing extremist content, eventually forcing the sub allow only mods "approved" by Reddit Inc. They shuttered the sub before allowing this to happen. The big joke to is that these anti-police messages were before the summer when it was non-stop ACAB, Kill The Police, etc, in practically every other sub-reddit as part of the riots and protests. Standards applied evenly, Reddit would be left with a knitting and a windsurfing section. Reddit wanted the_donald gone, end of story. MediaMatters helped, and the reason was surface level deep, but they didn't need some iron clad reason. Interestingly, Reddit removed the "violence against police" reasoning, and replaced it with a more generic cause, as the hypocrisy was warming up. I researched this shortly after it happened.

wincy 5y ago
Hah the funny you should say that about windsurfing, as the mod of the most popular surfing subreddit was banning anyone who posted in the Donald.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  I'm sure there is some law for the most ridiculous example you can think of off the cuff, someone will find has been true somewhere. :) I never saw that back then, that subs would ban you for that, but recently I posted a negative comment to No New Normal. I was instantly banned from almost every popular reddit sub. A couple of them sent me a think saying they might unban me if I promised never to post there again. It wasn't a supportive comment, I was mocking one of them. How insane is it that the people that admin and mod Reddit are so fragile that they literally ban anyone who talks to people they don't like? This can't continue. I suppose I appreciate their acceleration.