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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4539927" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-bans-thedonald-cracks-down-on-hate-speech-2020-6?amp&__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank">Reddit bans r/The_Donald, cracks down on hate speech - Business Insider</a></p><p></p><p>"Reddit's biggest community for supporters of President Donald Trump is no more. </p><p></p><p>The message board site banned more than 2,000 subreddits that regularly broke its rules on harassment, hate speech, and targeting on Monday, CEO Steve Huffman <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x" target="_blank">announced in a post</a>. One of those subreddits was r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump forum with more than 790,000 users.</p><p></p><p>"All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith. We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity," Huffman wrote. "The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average ... and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations."</p><p></p><p>The subreddits were banned as part of Reddit's enforcement of a new policy on hate speech, which states that people or subreddits who "promote hate based on identity or vulnerability" will be banned. The <a href="https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or" target="_blank">policy</a> also prohibits targeting "victims of a major violent event and their families."</p><p></p><p>Other banned subreddits include right-wing forums like r/CampusConservative, r/thenewright, and r/rightwinglgbt. They also included some left-wing subreddits like r/ChapoTrapHouse, and r/cumtown, subreddits for fans of two leftist podcasts of the same names, respectively. A subreddit dedicated to trans-exclusionary feminism, r/GenderCritical, was also banned."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4539927, member: 48469"] [URL="https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-bans-thedonald-cracks-down-on-hate-speech-2020-6?amp&__twitter_impression=true"]Reddit bans r/The_Donald, cracks down on hate speech - Business Insider[/URL] "Reddit's biggest community for supporters of President Donald Trump is no more. The message board site banned more than 2,000 subreddits that regularly broke its rules on harassment, hate speech, and targeting on Monday, CEO Steve Huffman [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x']announced in a post[/URL]. One of those subreddits was r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump forum with more than 790,000 users. "All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith. We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity," Huffman wrote. "The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average ... and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations." The subreddits were banned as part of Reddit's enforcement of a new policy on hate speech, which states that people or subreddits who "promote hate based on identity or vulnerability" will be banned. The [URL='https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or']policy[/URL] also prohibits targeting "victims of a major violent event and their families." Other banned subreddits include right-wing forums like r/CampusConservative, r/thenewright, and r/rightwinglgbt. They also included some left-wing subreddits like r/ChapoTrapHouse, and r/cumtown, subreddits for fans of two leftist podcasts of the same names, respectively. A subreddit dedicated to trans-exclusionary feminism, r/GenderCritical, was also banned." [/QUOTE]
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