Reddit has banned several hate groups in the past couple of weeks, including r/Nazi, r/EuropeanNationalism, and r/pol. Also gone: r/NationalSocialism, r/whitesarecriminals, r/Far_Right, and r/DylannRoofInnocent. The new policy explanation says,
Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people; likewise, we will also take action against content that glorifies or encourages the abuse of animals. This applies to ALL content on Reddit, including memes, CSS/community styling, flair, subreddit names, and usernames.
The full list of banned groups doesn't seem to be available, but many were tiny and some were not political; r/SexWithHorses and r/SexWithDogs are gone. Ahh… good?
Still up in the air: whether r/The_Donald is facing the axe. Seems unlikely, but if the banned communities' regulars pour into their remaining racist stronghold and start talking the same way, it may also vanish. The unhappy targets have tried to insist that groups that advocate punching Nazis should also be removed; so far, the mods remain able to tell the difference between "single meme" and "entire focus of community." However, it seems likely that Nazi-punching memes will no longer be allowed.
This follows years of community activism, where users watched for racist communities whose moderators have vanished, took ownership, repurposed the subreddit name, and changed the policies:
- r/WhitePolitics is now about paint and appliances: "I just made the subreddit one less haven for spam and racism, and instead a place to post dank memes about the color white."
- r/race_realism has been flooded with "politically incorrect" posts about cycling, NASCAR, and other aspects of racing: "Polite society doesn't like to talk about it, but the blue shell is completely fair and adds to the balance of Mario Kart."
- r/Stormfront has been rededicated to “firsthand reports of severe weather” for the past five years.
- r/PUA was taken over and switched to posts about weightlifting and related physical challenges.
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[–] LA6661 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I'm so fuckin glad I left Reddit a couple years ago. I wonder if my acct is still active...
And why the hell did my phone auto-correct to capitalize reddit?
[–] Ocelot ago
They changed the official style and now capitalized is technically more correct.
[–] KILLtheRATS 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
T_d isnt going anywhere. It's controlled opposition. Remember when it was fun? Thats when whites ran it. Now, the jew took it over and it boring virtue signaling
[–] Kannibal [S] ago
agreed, although not a lot of people are happy about it.
http://archive.is/MCF68
[–] ShitArchon ago
Nope, just Reddit being more bowdlerized and PC over time.
[–] gbiota1 ago
Reddit should just get on with it and tell people what they are allowed to say, perhaps limiting comments to pre-scripted responses. It would save them years of shaving other peoples communications down to what the most radical leftist activists think is appropriate.
[–] 10969485? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So...make 15 million @JohnCStevenson accounts.
Got it.
[–] gbiota1 ago
If only there was some alternative where there was no policing at all.
[–] retprob ago
Read:Anything that contradicts our Leftist/Marxist ideology will be banned.
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[–] Kannibal [S] ago
Well, how does Constitutional law limit a private corporation from conducting business as it sees fit?
And do you have a right to use Reddit, etc?
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[–] piratse ago
Well then it's a good thing reddit isn't the government. And they aren't putting people in jail.
[–] Pubiclouse 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
What's reddit... I mean wtf the mods there sound like total douche canoes.
[–] KILLtheRATS ago
Reddit is a place where jidf and tavistock bots talk to eachother to give the impression that liberalism is popular
[–] ScottRockview ago
The mods are douche canoes and Reddit is a yeast infection that not only doesn't want to be cured, it wants to spread.