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Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Social media site Reddit has banned two of the largest far-right "subreddits" groups it hosts, altright and alternativeright. The subreddits have been used in the organization of America's resurgent neofascist movement but the final straw for Reddit was the two groups' participation in what is known as "doxing": sharing private personal information without permission as a form of online harassment. The subreddits were specifically banned for breaking Reddit's content policy, according to a message posted by the site admins, "specifically, the proliferation of personal and confidential information." Reddit did not make it explicit which content infringed its rules, but it is believed to be attempts to dox the protestor who punched a white nationalist during a TV interview at Donald Trump's inauguration. Speaking to the Daily Beast, one Reddit moderator claimed that the ban was instead a result of its "record monthly traffic" (Reddit moderators, like the creators of individual subreddits, are all volunteers with no official relationship to the site's staff). "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," the moderator said.
Of course the bans were political. The fact that doxxing may or may not have happened is irrelevant; any reaction to a politically aligned group can only come from the opposition in charge of ruining our children's future. Just like when I got pulled over for going 60 in a liberal school zone by a radical left-wing traffic cop.
In all seriousness, the truth of the doxxing doesn't matter. The group got shut down, so the best thing the group can do is rally around it as some kind of slight against them from their oppressors. It doesn't matter that any rules were violated; all they need to know is one side got shut down and the other is allowed to survive. That will be all the damage control they need.
Where's Elwood Blues when we need him?
I remember someone even trying to prove Milo wasn't a racist because he likes to sleep with black man. It was pointed out that that would have made meant many of the slave owners in the American South weren't racists.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yes, those BLM types, so damned racist because they protests that African-Americans are statistically more likely to die in police shootings. How racist of them! They should just ignore that statistic because it makes them racist to point it out!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.