The Rise and Fall of r/The_Donald - The Subreddit that Helped Plan Charlottesville

Описание: r/The_Donald was one of the most popular subreddits on Reddit. A community that constantly promoted the agenda of the President as well as spread wild racist conspiracy theories about white replacement and deep state operations. It also promoted and urged its followers to attend the Unite the Right Charlottesville rally and acknowledged that they would be allying themselves with National Socialists.

I break down the community's rise and fall, and pathetic continuing existence.
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Wired reporting: Reddit has banned r/The_Donald. Who it bans next matters more

Since 2015, more than 790,000 people have congregated over at the r/The_Donald subreddit, posting memes, videos and messages in support of their hero, US then-presidential candidate and current president Donald Trump – who does not support the group but once blessed it with an Ask Me Anything – and debating head-scratchers like “is there a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy?”

On Monday, Reddit decided to take action. r/The_Donald is no more. The ban results from an update to Reddit’s hate speech policies. Users must now abide by eight new rules, which prohibit, among other things, targeted harassment and revealing the identities of others. r/The_Donald, along with 2,000 other mainly dormant communities, including a subreddit for the fans of leftwing podcast Chapo Trap House, fell foul of these new standards, which require users to “remember the human” and claim that “Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalised or vulnerable groups of people“.

The ban marks a gradual but clear policy reversal. Reddit has long been criticised for hosting hate speech and other harmful content – it famously stood by users who posted stolen nudes back in 2014 – and has been sluggish to enforce the rules dealing with these offences, which it brought in over five years ago.

r/The_Donald, by far the most active of the removed groups, was a deft purveyor of the ugly online rhetoric that circles the US president. The ban will certainly have an impact on how other Reddit users behave, explains Nicolas Suzor, an associate professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Both online and off, it sets new, stricter limits on acceptable online speech.

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