Trump Enslavement Syndrome - Orange man good. /r/The_Donald and any public demonstration of rabid pro-Trump enthusiasm in spite of all reason.

[V0dka]

So r/The_Donald is still active just "quarantined"? what exactly does that mean?

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

https://archive.is/JXiW4

Reddit Restricts Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats
The subreddit The_Donald was “quarantined” after users posted threats of violence against police officers and politicians in Oregon, administrators said.

Reddit limited access to a forum popular with supporters of President Trump on Wednesday, saying that its users had violated rules prohibiting content that incites violence.
Visitors to the The_Donald subreddit were greeted Wednesday with a warning that the section had been “quarantined,” meaning its content would be harder to find, and asking if they still wanted to enter.

Site administrators said that users of the online community, which has about 750,000 members, had made threats against police officers and public officials.

“The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an overreliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence,” Reddit wrote in a message to the site’s moderators, who shared the note publicly on Wednesday.

“Most recently,” the message continued, “we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence toward police officers and public officials in Oregon.”
The posts came amid a partisan feud in Oregon over a climate change bill, in which Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, ordered the state police to corral Republican lawmakers who had fled the Capitol. There was a one-day closing of the Capitol after threats of militia violence.

“We are clear in our sitewide policies that posting content that encourages or threatens violence is not allowed on Reddit,” a spokesperson for the website said in an email to The New York Times Wednesday. “As we have shared, we are sensitive to what could be considered political speech, however, recent behaviors including threats against the police and public figures is content that is prohibited by our violence policy. As a result, we have actioned individual users and quarantined the subreddit.”

The_Donald bills itself as “a never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States.” Among its prominently posted rules: “Trump Supporters Only. No Cucks or Leftists.” The former is a derogatory term for anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives.

The subreddit has been fertile ground for pro-Trump images and videos that spread to other social media platforms, with support from within the president’s circle. In fact, days after being named digital director of the Trump campaign in 2016, Brad Parscale, now the campaign manager of the president’s re-election campaign, tweeted that he visited The_Donald daily.

“It was clear that they had an audience with not only a great deal of Trump’s supporters but with Trump himself,” said Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, a senior writer at Inc. and author of “We Are the Nerds,” a book about Reddit.

In July 2016, Mr. Trump answered questions from users of the subreddit. Throughout the campaign and the early days of his presidency, Mr. Trump mined the community for memes he would later amplify on social media.

With hundreds of thousands of subscribers, The_Donald is home to a broad conversation ranging from discussion about the news to media criticism to jokes. But the community has also been known to spread extremist messages and conspiracy theories, including the debunked “Pizzagate” story, which centered on a belief that a Washington-area restaurant was secretly home to a child-abuse ring. The subreddit has also been criticized for allowing an undercurrent of racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic tropes and language.
The response by Reddit on Wednesday stopped short of an outright ban of the group, a step taken by administrators twice in 2017, when they cracked down on Nazi, white supremacist and far right subreddits and later expunged a forum about the subculture of “incels,” or involuntary celibate men, because of threats of violence against women.

The quarantine represents a middle-ground approach — a way to deal with communities that engage in behavior that, while permitted, may be offensive to average users.
Under a quarantine, an alert warns visitors that a subreddit has struggled to address alleged violations of Reddit’s policy. Users have to accept the warning to see or subscribe to the community’s posts, which no longer appear in the general stream on Reddit.

According to Reddit, it has 330 million monthly users, which makes it the fifth-most visited website. The site, which bills itself as the “front page of the internet,” claims to have more than 130,000 communities, or subreddits, with an average of 21 billon monthly page views.

Most are moderated by users and have their own rules for content. While The_Donald had posted rules, it did not have a clear mechanism to report or de-emphasize content that was inappropriate, and violent content was not being flagged, administrators said.

.Online sites have increasingly been struggling with the mix of politics and sometimes violent rhetoric on their sites in an era of increased polarization. This month, YouTube announced plans to remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies.

The problem has even affected sites that are not inherently political. Earlier this week, Ravelry, a popular knitting and crocheting site, banned content in support of President Trump in what it said was a stand against white supremacy.

“We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy,” the site said in a statement explaining the decision.


Other quarantined Reddit communities include subreddits centered on discussions of racism, violence, Holocaust revisionism and other forms of anti-Semitism.
The quarantine feature has been used on the site for several years. “The purpose of quarantining a community is to prevent its content from being accidentally viewed by those who do not knowingly wish to do so, or viewed without appropriate context,” Reddit said in an online description of the practice.

Members of The_Donald accused Reddit of censorship Wednesday and threatened to leave for another website. They questioned the timing of the “quarantine,” which went into effect just hours before the first of two Democratic presidential debates.

Some users’ responses to the restrictions were removed by the forum’s moderators because of their inflammatory content.

“The internet is being officially being pasteurized, commercialized, politicized and soon will become a weapon against Americans much like China is using their social point program,” a Reddit user known as Glassclose from California posted Wednesday afternoon.

 

[Crazedking]

They finally did it, the absolute madlads!!!

 

[TiberianWizardry]

So r/The_Donald is still active just "quarantined"? what exactly does that mean?

They can't use custom CSS, only accounts with a verified E-mail can participate (meaning, far fewer bots), there's a splash page with a warning and there's no monetization (meaning, no gold or ads).

 

[Coleslaw]

Oh well, at least AskReddit has some interesting stories.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

They can't use custom CSS, only accounts with a verified E-mail can participate (meaning, far fewer bots), there's a splash page with a warning and there's no monetization (meaning, no gold or ads).

It also doesn't show up on most searches through Reddit now along with those things, making it much harder to stumble on to it accidentally. (Although it was already restricted on where it could show up)

 

[X Prime]

What's with the thread description? Did I miss something?

 

[A Logging Company]

So r/The_Donald is still active just "quarantined"? what exactly does that mean?

From Plebbit:

Quarantined communities will display a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in to viewing the content. They generate no revenue, do not appear in non-subscription-based feeds (eg Popular), and are not included in search or recommendations. Reddit may also enforce a number of additional product restrictions that exist currently or as they may develop in the future (eg removing custom styling tools).

EDIT: Now that I think about it, what is even the point? T_D was for the most part its own self contained hugbox that didn't have much to do with the rest of the site, so all quarantining did was give it massive amounts of attention. The quote above was hard to find because all the front page of google is about T_D getting the big Q_T. They would have been better off leaving it be or banning it outright. Now if they ban it, its going to get even more mainstream press, nearly ensuring the President hears about it.

EDIT 2: Here is a list of mainstream sites covering this. Copied from /r/reclassified. Too lazy to archive all these.

Spoiler

[Boing Boing] (https://boingboing.net/2019/06/26/after-threats-reddit-finally.html)
[The Verge] (https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/...-subreddit-misbehavior-violence-police-oregon)
[Vice] (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3x88a/reddit-quarantined-r-the_donald-for-threats-of-violence)
[Forbes] (https://www.forbes.com/sites/fernan...eaking-behavior/?ss=consumertech#6ca871f45940)
[New York Times] (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/us/politics/reddit-donald-trump-quarantined.html)
[Gizmondo] (https://gizmodo.com/reddit-quarantines-its-biggest-pro-trump-community-1835880506)
[The Daily Beast] (https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddi...r-anti-police-threats?source=articles&via=rss)
[CNN] (https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/tech/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/)
[Newsweek] (https://www.newsweek.com/reddit-donald-quarantine-subreddit-drama-1446104)
[PopDust] (https://www.popdust.com/reddit-the-donald-quarantined-2638994457.html)
[Who?] (https://kxlh.com/cnn-social-media-t...mp-forum-the_donald-over-threats-of-violence/)
[TechCrunch] (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/reddit-quarantines-its-biggest-headache/)
[MotherJones] (https://www.motherjones.com/politic...acks-down-on-its-infamous-r-the_donald-forum/)
[MediaMatters] (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2...-trump-s-team-has-relied-forum-content/224059)
[A Loser] (https://www.reddit.com/user/me/)
[WashingtonPost] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...rantined-by-reddit-following-violent-threats/)

 

[V0dka]

From Plebbit:

Well I guess that means the election is saved, russian bots have been thwarted across multiple websites, there is now no longer any threat of the Nazi Party coming to power and somehow hacking the vote machines.

Whew, it was close, but we got em.

 

[Rand /pol/]

DRUMPFCUCKS ABSOLUTELY AND ETERNALLY B T F O
guess they don't like getting walled off now

 

[CamelCursive]

I was having a hard time deciding whether I should feel bad about the dead children or shit-stained cops. Glad you cleared it up for me.

Dragging kids through a fucking desert will tend to, you know, fuck them up and kill them. Where they end up laying when they croak is irrelevant. By your logic, CPS kills fuckloads of kids in our own country, because their dindu moms beat their skulls in and take them to the hospital, and CPS takes custody once signs of abuse become apparent.

Could you just, you know, drag yourself through a desert? I'm sure some decent people with a pickup and chain could help you.


Also not sure this was posted yet, so sharing. Enjoy, faggots.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

LMFAO, check the removed posts from /r/legaladvice on removereddit, they've been getting a storm of "This violates my free speech!" spergs.

 

[CamelCursive]

"If you want my guns, you can come take them from my cold, dead hands." Yeah, let's see what your AR-15 does against an M113 APC. Good luck!

I've got a better idea.

Watch what happens when you tell those guys in that M113 APC that they have to go and kill Americans and take their firearms. Protip: I'd get behind something if I were you. They're not going to take that very well.

Because you're a stupid faggot that's probably never been near a military base and noticed the ludicrous amount of gun shops and shooting ranges that make equally ludicrous amounts of money.

So, yeah. You can have them when you take them from my cold dead hands. And the lad in the turret on that M113 is going to look at you and say, "Well, go on. Take it."

The military is overwhelmingly right-leaning and pro-gun, they aren't robots and they tend to loathe left-leaning faggots. Don't hedge your bets on them.

 

[V0dka]

DRUMPFCUCKS ABSOLUTELY AND ETERNALLY B T F O
guess they don't like getting walled off now

I thought you guys said walls don't work.

 

[AnOminous]

From Plebbit:



EDIT: Now that I think about it, what is even the point? T_D was for the most part its own self contained hugbox that didn't have much to do with the rest of the site, so all quarantining did was give it massive amounts of attention.

Famously, they banned fucking @Null because he wasn't enough of an ideologue for them. That's how fucked up, shitty and insane those morons are.

 

[Tranhuviya]

"If you want my guns, you can come take them from my cold, dead hands." Yeah, let's see what your AR-15 does against an M113 APC. Good luck!

Tons of M113s got shot up by Vietnamese fucking shits with small arms. Try again.

 

[CamelCursive]

Tons of M113s got shot up by Vietnamese fucking shits with small arms. Try again.

Also, a lot can happen with a copper plate and a steel pipe. Just saying, it's Easier For some People.

 

[V0dka]

Famously, they banned fucking @Null because he wasn't enough of an ideologue for them. That's how fucked up, shitty and insane those morons are.

why would null even go there?

 

[Done]

AND the NEWS STORY has been moved from the news section to the community section and buried in a thread laughing at the subreddit.

This doesn't belong here just because it's tangentally related. Jesus fucking christ, is it irony when a story about censorship is hidden like this?

For someone who shrieks so much about censorship of rightwingers, you are incredibly thin-skinned and can't handle a small, small modicum of ridicule.

Plus you're acting like this thread was moved into a private forum, when it is still on a public one (and thus still shows up on Google results just fine).

Hell, even the_donald itself isn't a free speech absolutist entity, they even banned Null over absolute jackshit. You can find discussion of it in this very thread.

TL;DR: lolfuckingcalmdown.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Tons of M113s got shot up by Vietnamese fucking shits with small arms. Try again.

Also, a lot can happen with a copper plate and a steel pipe. Just saying, it's Easier For some People.

The Second Indochina War was not fought only with small arms, the NVA were a professional conventional military armed and funded by the USSR fighting against an unpopular puppet government with near total popular support. I get the point you're trying to make but any uprising inside of the US would be almost immediately crushed and you'd see vids of fat militia LARPtards getting lynched in the streets by mobs all over LiveLeak.