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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.
No you see being a facist is ok when the left does it.
That is a lie, a justification, or ego defense claim in my view. Rules on Reddit are selectively applied and moderation is politically motivated. That community is in poor shape. Partisanship, paid position advocacy, and even administrative intervention is running rampant on that platform.
I don't have a stake in the game and only offer my view as a Reddit community outsider looking in. Take it for what it is. I am acting as my own citation.
Once a site starts to ban its own users, many other users will have to try self-censorship to keep their accounts.
That gets boring and feels like work. Why stay on an interactive social media site if you have no free speech or freedom after speech?
As a site becomes more safe, more regulated by teams of SJW, more boring users will seek fun, interaction and content on other better sites that support freedom of speech.
The fun, desire for and enjoyment of real free speech does not go away when teams of SJW ban users and accounts on one site.
The site that had the SJW censorship will just be used as a safe space for brands, governments, faiths, cults and celebrities.
A bland safe space for marketing, brands, advertising and big government does not attract fun new users.
What will the teams of SJW like to ban next? Cartoons that would be considered blasphemy? Politics? No mention of Tiananmen Square and 1989?
Do SJW have a long list of words, terms they want banned? Protect all celebrity marketing by ensuring only positive movie reviews can be found?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
There isn't one. "Alt-Right" is just the new way of calling everyone who isn't a progressive a Nazi.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Another AC, and devil's advocate: I don't see Nazis punching BLM people giving a speech, goose-stepping onto the highways, or breaking windows to show their disdain for a local Starbucks. I dislike their rhetoric, but if our culture considers it perfectly OK to assault someone because one disagrees with they are saying, then all gloves are off... and the far right only will gain strength.
Every time someone gets physically attacked for talking right-wing rhetoric, be it someone physically attacked, or threats of riots and bombings driving a division of the press away, it only shows the base that the other side cannot refute the white supremacist points, but has to revert to abject violence as a comeback.
You don't win hearts and minds with violence. Iraq has taught the US that.
At this point you should just scream more insults, like the bigot you are.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Give me falsifiable but true evidence of Soros doing any of this. There have been documented paper trails of the Koch brothers, along with other right-leaning mill/billionaires dumping money into conservative agendas. Is that bad? No, he's free to put money to causes he believes in.
What's bad is the video of that Republican woman on camera caught trying to hire people to disrupt Trump's inauguration. There has been no such evidence of George Soros being involved in anything I've heard people claim but there has been some evidence of Republicans hiring people to disrupt Republican events so they can blame Democrats.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Believe HuffPo is fake news? Feel free, but it's hard to refute a video.
You saw calls for a military coup from right-wing celebrities? Or calls for assassination from the right-wing press? Right-wing mayors and police chiefs giving right-wing rioters "room to destroy"?
Swap right for left, and that was Wednesday, not collected incidents across 8 years.
See that "Preview" button?
If you aren't fighting trump's fascism, then for sure you're a fool. Because this is it. You get one shot to avoid living in an Aryan paradise.
The alt-right, at its broadest measure, is everyone who is on the right and tired of losing like gentlemen. Basically, a rejection of the country club/establishment faction of the GOP that has led us from loss to pyrrhic victory to loss. They also notice that "conservatism" is a failed ideology, since it hasn't conserved anything. The tea party movement is, by this reckoning, an early alt-right movement.
And before you say it, no, I don't care who said what in 2010, and no, I don't care how the media has been trying to spin it. This includes a very broad range of people, including some people who consider themselves white nationalist, but also a lot more who think that white nationalism is a racist ideology they would never in a billion years have anything to do with. Oh, and not all of them are white. Even some of the white nationalists aren't white. Deal with it.
In America, the left-right axis runs from Marxism on the left to Realism (anti-Marxism) on the right. We don't get too picky about what name the Marxism is going by today. Similarly, we don't care that much about why someone opposes Marxism. The different groups on each side tend to overlap a lot more than they do with any group on the other side.
Since Europe is thoroughly Marxist, your axis is mostly between globalism and tradition. Our Marxists support globalism because it advances Marxism - which would make no sense in Europe because in Europe, even the monarchists are Marxists. Yes, I know that I'm speaking in unfairly broad strokes here. It is only intended to be approximately accurate.
In America, many on the right, whether "conservative" or alt-, see that the country is approaching a tipping point. The Hart-Cellar Act is bearing demographic fruit, the schools and media are engines of Marxist propaganda almost to the exclusion of education and information, and the left had already begun their endzone dance.
Whatever is important to someone on the right, whether it is their religion, their race, their culture or the Constitution, it has been increasingly apparent that the options to preserve it have been dwindling swiftly. We do still have close to three hundred million guns, and like 90% of the combat training and experience, so the violent option is always there. Overwhelmingly, we don't want that. In fact, we are trying to avoid that so badly that we were willing to vote for a brash New York liberal and recovering Democrat on his third marriage.
If there is any possible definition of "far right" in America, it is the two very small minorities that think that the second civil war (currently ongoing) moving from cold to hot is either a good thing, or something that can't be avoided.
Every day that the news shows violent left-wing mobs destroying cities and attacking people merely for disagreeing with them, both of those minorities grow. Every time media figures pretend to be unbiased - and remain employed - while they call for assassination or military coup, those minorities grow. If, God forbid, someone were able to kill Trump, millions of people who played fair and won honestly will take it as a signal that the left will not allow a peaceful revolution, and things will get very ugly, very fast.
The spoiled kids in the streets cheering on the violence today have no idea how poorly they would fare if that ever happens. An unfinished Gender Studies degree usually means that a person thinks that food comes from the grocery store and might even suffer from PTSD ever since that one time they drove past a gun store.
(If you still see signature lines on /., please ignore mine - just this once. I don't have enough time to proofread this long post to ensure that it is up to my normal editorial standards.)
See that "Preview" button?
Bannon is at the top of government, probably with more real power than trump, and he is clearly a white supremacist.
There is no nice way to say this so I will just say it. You sound like an idiot.
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So... They mistakenly think that they can't criticise certain things without being called a bigot, and to prove their point actually act like bigots to attract criticism.
Or maybe they are just trolling.
No, the alt-right started out as white nationalists, but has expanded to include other groups. At its core is Brietbart, which attempts to put a respectable face on it, but it's still basically just the far right and people attracted to its populist message.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
If that were true then they'd get banned as well. What this is instead is a bunch of crybaby Nazis are bitching and whining about Reddit not giving them a platform to gather info on who they want to attack.
This is no different than Reddit banning Al Queda or ISIS, because the alt right Nazis are no different from them.