Pro-Trump message board "quarantined" by Reddit following violent threats

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Drew Harwell and Craig Timberg June 26 at 2:07 PM

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, America’s fifth-most popular website.

Created in 2015, “The_Donald” counts roughly 750,000 followers and advertises itself as “a never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”

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

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/26/pro-trump-message-board-quarantined-by-reddit-following-violent-threats/

[joshcryer]

1. Good.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. They're not getting rid of it

Just hiding it behind a warning

[Bengus81]

3. Violent even on something like a forum............

Sick,sick SOB's........

[barbtries]

4. they threaten violence

and when there's a consequence cry free speech. And WP incites them to do so.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. People on DU threaten or wish they could be violent. Too many here think it is funny. . . . nt

[SCVDem]

20. No, not funny!

Do you consider a fight for our constitutional rights to be funny?

No, there is nothing funny about losing our Democracy!

[barbtries]

23. that would not be me.

i don't say what i would like to see happen to trump, mcconnell and their cabal.
i haven't seen threats here. i have seen fantasies. i don't do reddit, but my assumption was that the posters there had in fact threatened violence.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Didn't mean you. When DUers say "Mnuchin has a punchable face", we'd condemn an R saying that of Hil

... Hillary.

In the system I was raised to believe is moral and ethical, we don't suggest physical violence against a person we dislike as the way to deal with our dislike.

But I don't think the Washington Post is inciting them. Where do you see that?

[paleotn]

24. Not funny...

but necessary in certain cases.

[Turin_C3PO]

31. I haven't seen anything on DU comparable

to what gets posted on right-wing websites. The very few times I’ve seen a truly violent post, it was deleted quickly.

[DBoon]

5. Since when do violent criminal gangs get to hide behind freedom of speech?

Can a forum for supporters of the Mafia openly advocate rubbing out compeitors?

Can MS13 openly recruit on college campuses?

We need to stop thinking of the right wing as a source of alternative ideas and more like a violent criminal gang

[CurtEastPoint]

6. I have to admit I have never consciously sought out or read 'reddit.' Am I missing anything?

[Codeine]

15. It's a good place for niche interests and hobbies.

I follow a lot of subreddits related to games I enjoy, Formula1, and miniature painting. For politics it’s a cesspool.

[CurtEastPoint]

22. Thanks for that!

[uncle ray]

33. IMO the /politics subreddit is pretty good.

it is liberal/progressive. I've found pretty good commentary and analysis there, and there are many posters who put great effort into helping educate others.

[Codeine]

34. I'm sure you're right.

I think I’ve just been put off by the politics that ooze into non-political subs; it’s always the hateful shit that sneaks in where it’s not wanted

[forgotmylogin]

35. A lot of the articles on /politics are duplicated here.

I don't know which direction they go, although it might just be reporting on the same news headlines.

On reddit people can vote up messages in a thread, so if you browse by "top" you can usually get the best few posts at the beginning without scrolling all the way through.

[barbtries]

25. my son is hooked on it.

i never caught the bug. it wouldn't hurt to check it out you may really get something out of it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. It's a set of forums & threads. Has its way of doing social media that you might like or not.

In some forums it is rather wild, but I think that most are relatively civilized.

I'm not a member. I join a few social media platforms if they are specific to my interests, like DU.

[Initech]

7. Trumpsters are making violent threats? I'm shocked!!!

[mopinko]

8. thoughts and prayers to the mods.

i mean that sincerely.
their hot tub must be boiling over.

[sop]

9. Many of the "communities" on Reddit and 4chan simply defy description

In the pre-internet days, these guys had to post their deep thoughts on bathroom stalls in seedy biker bars. It's really dispiriting knowing there are so many evil assholes living in this country.

[Dave Starsky]

19. Well, they were always there. Now they are in the open.

I read this on Reddit once. It is absolutely true:

Donald Trump told all of the demons in this country that their time in the shadows is over.

[MineralMan]

10. They can just move it to 4chan.

Nobody there cares.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Racists in Rwanda used media of the day (radio). 70% of Tsutsis were genocided. A million people. nt

[McKim]

18. Visited Kigali and Saw Where Radio Rwanda

Visited Kigali and saw the location of the infamous Radio Rwanda Hate Station. It was featured prominently in the Human Rights Museum there. This has been a force in our country for way too long. We must fund Liberal and Left Media to have more influence.

[Irishxs]

13. This is a repeat of action taken by Ravelry, the knitters site.

[infullview]

14. The deplorables just exposing themselve as deplorable.

[airmid]

16. Quarantined like the flipping virus they are.

[yaesu]

17. what the heck are those nazi punks upset about, they got their little unimpeachable hitler installed

what more do they want?

[Kaiserguy]

21. 'What more do they want"

I would guess what they want is to do nasty thing to anyone who doesn't worship Dumb Don and to get away with it.

[paleotn]

26. What more do they want?

The list is long and heinous. The goals of Germany's third reich are a good template for what they want.

[ck4829]

30. Yeah, how much time you got?

[Flaleftist]

32. Their Charlottesville match told us. nt

[christx30]

36. In this case, it's about the Cap and Trade

bill in the Oregon legislature. The republicans knew they didn’t have enough votes to defeat it legitimately. So they packed their bags and split to Idaho, to prevent a quorum, and block the vote. The governor ordered them back, to continue the work of government. The republicans offered their middle fingers as a rebuttal. The governor ordered the state police to go get them. State militia announced they would defend the Oregon republicans from the state police. One of the republicans trash talked the cops, advising them to only send men without families (so no kids to miss them once they are killed in the line of duty), and come heavily armed.
The reddit forum was expressing support for killing the cops that were being sent after the legislators.
By the way: the Cap and Trade bill is dead. The Oregon dems have dropped it, saying they don’t have enough votes to make it happen.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Some of Trump's mighty fine people