Pro-Trump Message Board “Quarantined” By Reddit Following Violent

[wvit1001]

Pro-Trump Message Board “Quarantined” By Reddit Following Violent Threats


The biggest forum for supporters of President Trump on Reddit has been “quarantined” following months of incitements to violence and other offensive behavior, the tech giant said Wednesday, in a move that could further inflame conservatives’ claims of social-media bias.

The forum, called “r/The_Donald,” has long served as a highly trafficked and controversial gathering place for supporters of Trump and Republicans on Reddit, the United States’ fifth-most popular website.

Reddit officials said on Wednesday that the “r/The_Donald” board had allowed or encouraged months of “rule-breaking behavior,” including the “encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon.”

“We are clear in our sitewide policies that posting content that encourages or threatens violence is not allowed,” Reddit spokeswoman Anna Soellner said in a statement to The Washington Post.

“We are sensitive to what could be considered political speech,” Soellner added, but “recent behaviors including threats against the police and public figures is content that is prohibited by our violence policy.”

The quarantine action will effectively demote the forum on Reddit, removing key features and restricting how its content is shared across the site, including blocking it from appearing in searches or recommendations. It is not an outright ban, but will conceal the forum behind a warning and require viewers to verify they are sure they want to view its contents.

“It’s a really positive step,” said Becca Lewis, a researcher at Stanford University and the think tank Data & Society. The forum “r/The_Donald,” which Lewis has studied extensively, “has been a bastion of hate speech and harassment for years.” She said there are numerous other forums on Reddit where conservatives can share their views and express support for Trump and other political figures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/26/pro-trump-message-board-quarantined-by-reddit-following-violent-threats/?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.e1918a82f1fd

[warrenpees]

Ah, those peaceful trumplicans!

[chuck_curtis]

After social media platform Reddit put restrictions on its subpage r/The_Donald—the largest fan club of President Donald Trump—the page grew by about 10,000 subscribers in 24 hours, compared with a growth of about 11,000 a month during the preceding year.

As of the afternoon of June 27, the subscriber count stood at 765,000.

Reddit put the page in “quarantine” in the afternoon of June 26, which means the page doesn’t show up in search, recommendations, and general Reddit feeds, such as the r/Popular. Ads are also no longer placed on the page–which had been the case already—and users are shown a warning before they can access it.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/largest-pro-trump-community-gains-10000-members-after-reddit-quarantines-it_2981343.html

[sine-qua-non]

Rule violations are relatively common on Reddit, or on social media in general. But the moderator calculated that since April 1, Reddit administrators only had to take action on 57 pieces of content on The_Donald, while the voluntary moderators took action on nearly 160,000. That appears to contradict Reddit’s argument of The_Donald’s “over-reliance” on the administrators.

“Fairly few” of the actions by the moderators deal with “calls to violence,” shadowman3001 said in a Twitter message.

“Let’s say there were a dozen legitimate calls to violence, just for argument,” the moderator said. “There are 2.3 million prisoners in America. That’s about 0.6% of the population. Out of the reported 750k members of The_Donald, a dozen people makes up 0.0016% of The_Donald’s population. What a cesspool, huh.”

[Jw2]

well sine...you do swim in that cesspool daily, doncha? 

[Jim]

 
Republicans do not “encourage of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon.”  That would be the Leftist Trolls on that Board.

[Jw2]

or like the violence of your white nationalist right wingers like James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, eh jimmmy?

[Jim]

 
WHAT exactly does that idiot have to do with threatening Police Officers or Officials?

And btw: While FAR-Right/Far-Left idiots have nothing to do with Republicans.  This White Supremacist/KKK provably has more to do with Democrats than anyn other group. You might want to keep that in the back of your mind.
 

[Truman62]

Sinus knows ALL about threatening violence on Americans, as he will support a Pro-Trump Coup, if Trump loses next November...

[sine-qua-non]

Will I

Duuuuuhhhmbvikmhere supports a coup on an eligible competent POTUS

Unlike the last one

[wvit1001]

[Truman62]

A Sinus Coup involves guns and killing.

A Davik Coup involves voting in an election booth!