In what will undoubtedly be viewed as just another attempt to censor dissenting, conservative political views, Reddit has banned three major ‘alt-right’ subreddits, /r/altright, /r/rightyfriends and /r/alternativeright, this evening for allegedly breaching the company’s content policy restricting the sharing of personal, private information. The so-called ‘Alt-right’ group had roughly 16,000 followers and grew in popularity last summer along with the rise of Donald Trump's political campaign.
While Reddit hasn't yet issued a formal statement on the ban, the following comments were offered up to The Daily Beast:
“Reddit is the proud home to some of the most authentic conversations online,” a statement provided to The Daily Beast by the company read. “We strive to be a welcoming, open platform for all by trusting our users to maintain an environment that cultivates genuine conversation and adheres to our content policy.”
“We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting of personal information can get users banned from Reddit and we ask our communities not to post content that harasses or invites harassment. We have banned r/altright due to repeated violations of the terms of our content policy. There is no single solution to these issues and we are actively engaging with the Reddit community to improve everyone's experience.”
A senior moderator of the atlright subreddit, who referred to himself as Bill Simpson, told The Daily Beast that the forum was “banned without notification or justification” and insisted that moderators "enforced stricter standards of behavior than reddit requires."
“So much for leftist tolerance. Our moderator team enforced stricter standards of behavior than reddit requires, and our users were very prompt at reporting violations so we could ban violators and delete posts and comments that broke the rules,” he added.
Additionally, Simpson claimed that the subreddit was banned because of its recent “record monthly traffic.”
“It's clear that Reddit banned us because we were becoming very popular and spreading inconvenient truths about who's ruining our country and robbing our children of a future,” Simpson said.
The announcement of the ban came just days after Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian penned an open letter trashing Trump's immigration ban, calling it "not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American."
After two weeks abroad, I was looking forward to returning to the U.S. this weekend, but as I got off the plane at LAX on Sunday, I wasn't sure what country I was coming back to.
President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world, we often talk about a startup’s “unfair advantage” that allows it to beat competitors. Welcoming immigrants and refugees has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.
Of course, all of this comes after Reddit CEO, Steve Huffman, admitted two months ago to editing individual posts made by Trump supporters that were critical of him. Per the apology below, Huffman edited posts to redirect criticism away from him and onto the moderators of the "r/the_donald" thread.
Free speech is a wonderful thing, provided it conforms to the prevailing political views of Silicon Valley's elitist tech billionaires.
Reddit...not even once.
Me either so stupid.. got better things to do!
So let's say you want to express your views on a platform run by people who don't agree with you. How far do you think you're going to get?
Yeah, exactly. When you've figured out who you're not allowed to criticize, you've figured out who's in charge. That is ALWAYS true, even on ZH.
I don't know what reddit is, but I do know that it belongs to someone. And if that someone doesn't like how you play in their sandbox, then they can tell you to get the fuck out. No big deal. Just find a different place to play.
What's Reddit? Seriously.
I get my news from numerous contrarians sources, including: ZH, Breitbart, RT, InfoWars.
And from select MSM: WSJ, Biz and Technology sections of various papers and mags.
Reddit.com/r/the_donald Is pretty good when ctr hasn't just gotten more funding. Also, shameless plug for wallstreetbets
The Donald is fucking hilarious. I bet you're a patriot who's gotten a coat.
<< What is Reddit? >>
Evidently, it's the left wing intolerant web site that bans free speech and evidently has ties to violent extremist groups like the DNC. Don't read it if you favor free speech and intelligent open discussions.
fucking normie
time to find a social media presence that hasn't been converged by SJW scum. But guess what? no such platform exists!
"find a need a fill it", o young entrepreneurs.....
The regressives are censoring free speech using psycho babble. This smells like something much bigger, like total control over the web. It started with political correctness and has morphed into emotional blackmail for anyone daring to be intolerant of their intolerance. The sheep will scrap it out while our society continues to crumble.
Good luck, it's us and them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgEqCzWhbYI
It has been done:
twitter alternative
https://gab.ai/
Wikipedia alternative
https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page
Someone reading this... start coding and make the alt. right competitor to Reddit.
Sounds like a great business opportunity. Same with news sources. We see Infowars, Drudge, Milo, etc gaining groun rapidly as middle of the road fair reporting news outlets as th eFake News channels like cnn, npr, nbc, etc fade away.
I suspect in two years nyt won't even exist. If Trump and Jack Ma work things out it's possible we'll see lots of new competing everything here in the world of news, shopping online, etc.
The Bully Party strikes again!
Ah...fascist cunts!
"Lefteddit". DOH!
So sick of liberals...
I am sick of people referring to Jews and their useful idiots as "liberals".
He's one of them... Huffman.
Everyone needs to get over to http://www.gab.ai and start using it!
Never used it. Never will. Full of lefttards and communazis.
"Communazis" is likely the most historically retarded term possible. I understand why you use it- your brainwashing has instilled a belief that "Nazi" means "ultimate evil"- but it's still incredibly misinformed.
Yes, the draining of all meaning from our political vocabulary has left us in near-incoherence, preventing us from having meaningful conversations. This is not accidental.
So what word currently fits with how the leftists are currently acting? They are well past anarchists after this last weekend and having Bezerkly live up to the name.
They tend to want communism. By definition, they aren't fascists, but they certainly are in tactics. Anarchists tend to be more in line wtih libertarians than the controling leftists.
I like ctrl-left. But that doesn't seem nasty enough for them.
Free Shit Army
In other words: F$A.
Bolshevik scum. How's that?
sounds good enough
They are a bunch of Marxists puppets with fascists pulling their strings
Amen! Pick a word: crybullies, F$A, qq'rs, butthurt, fapping whiners, fapping qq'rs, anti fa, Anti Fa, anti fascists.
The thing these morons fail to understand is their ignorance makes them useful idiots and they are being used, and used badly, by the far left.
My idea of a good time isn't living in Cuba or North Korea or Venezuela. All of those places have very strong communist dictatorships and the people are treated like fertilizer. Cheap, easy to starve, easy to kill, and easy to spread their remains without ceremony! I just don't get how some of these spoiled leftist brainwashed idiots can think that communism is a good idea! They don't even get they will be the first ones sacrificed! This is mass delusion. I don't get it now and I never will understand how so many people can suffer from this mass hysteria / delusional thinking.
Wat, you mad bro? I made up a word and you don't understand the meaning?
Your ignorance is not my problem!
Fuck reddit - it's become a circlejerk cesspit with millions of fanatical, triggered SJW brigaders who will downvote the shit out of anybody who says or implies that the media is biased, the federal government shouldn't be expanded 10X, and Pres Barack Golfbama wasn't the greatest of all time. Say a mildly positive thing about Trump and they will do their best to dox and/or ban you. It has seriously become an unsafe place for anyone except the far left. And further proof that "tolerant" liberal tech execs are totally unable to run a neutral business.
Well it is high tech potential source of intel for DHS, FBI, NSA, or CIA.
Sooo... it was always going to become a govt operation!
Any site that does not recognize what a total failure Osama bin Bama was is no friend of mine, Reddit included. I'm glad to see so many dem realizing how bad the DNC has become and are switching to this quasi-Republican party lead by Trump who is not a real repugnican but more of the middle of the raod libertarian.
reddit had a good run, but its time for it to just wither away.
Their weapon is they call people names.
Our weapon is, shall we say, of a more martial nature.
Sadly enough, for a long time the first one has proved the stronger.
Have never used it and now certainly never intend to. Sounds like a bunch of uptight blowhard dickweeds to me.
But not, of course, "digital dickweeds."
Liberalism is a deadly disease that must be cured.
And fast.
Reddit. Groupthink central.
"Just grab em by the reddit...!"
It'd be really easy for some Joo to post "here's where Shlomo Fill-in-the-blank-enstein lives."
Reddit is a collection of many young communists, with undeveloped identities (antisocial personality disorder), angry at everyone else for their own failures. All their claimed benevolence is a disguise to justify demaning someone take care of them. That is what happens when a generation is overprotected and given a trophy for not accomplishing anything.
If you point out to them the reality that they are the thugs, this upsets their world view. If you take off their masks and make them look in the mirror, you are confronting them with the fact there is something there they don't want to see. No wonder they want anyone exposing them to be banished. When you confront someone about their delusions, you just drive them deeper into the delusion.
A military convoy driving thru Louisville was flying a trump flag. Video was on local news . And yes there crystal of outrage as I guess that's a no no
It was a Navy Special Warfare convoy, they are training at Fort Knox.
More disturbing to the Bolishviks is that Trump's picture is now in every level HQ of every branch of US Armed Forces. How are they going to stop that?
upvoted for bullishviks..
Did posters "dox" people? If so, then fuck 'em, kick 'em out and shut them down. If people can't follow the rules on any site, they get banned. They can go find another site that will put up with their bullshit, like apparently "gab.ai."
And what is this fascination on the Right with "Tolerance?" I don't get it. People on the Left don't hold "Tolerance" as a virtue at all, so they aren't being hypocrites when they aren't "Tolerant." Liberals (as opposed to people on the Left, because Liberals are by definition not "Left"), like to talk about "Tolerance" when they're masking the fact that they're selling out to corporate interests, but that's not to be taken seriously.
Who wants to be "Tolerated" anyway? Treating people decently is a good goal. Tolerance means just not being an asshole, which even in today's Participation Trophy society isn't much of a goal. Are we supposed to "Tolerate" Nazis, for instance? Or cannibals? "Tolerance" of everything means no standards or values, it's not something to be aspired to.
Tolerance is just a code word for "I'm anti-white."
People on the left 'claim' to value tolerance, while in practice they are bigots.
Saying one thing while doing the opposite is the epitome of hypocrisy. They are hypocrites. The word hypocrite is absolutely the right world to use.
BTW, I looked up bigot to make sure I was using it correctly.
Bigot: One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
I was actually shocked how well it fit the entire left movement. They are bigots; almost fanatically so.