Any other subreddit would have gotten the boot long time ago, it still surprises me they actually hold on to /r/The_Donald. Is Reddit afraid to face the kind of "anti-conservative bias" scrutiny...
Any other subreddit would have gotten the boot long time ago, it still surprises me they actually hold on to /r/The_Donald. Is Reddit afraid to face the kind of "anti-conservative bias" scrutiny other platforms are being confronted with?
Is it though? He did an AMA there but it was never set up in any way as an official community. Presumably no moderators are connected to the administration, and the admins haven't given it any...
The_Donald is the Donald's official subreddit
Is it though? He did an AMA there but it was never set up in any way as an official community. Presumably no moderators are connected to the administration, and the admins haven't given it any official status.
The_Donald might be the biggest, but I'd imagine there are other Trump-supporting subreddits out there which are less unruly.
So what? It doesn't give him the right to flaunt the rules. He should be held to the same decency standards the rest of the world is, if not even higher ones.
It's the same reason twitter can't ban Trump, despite numerous and flagrant breaches of their ToS, he's the President of the United States.
So what? It doesn't give him the right to flaunt the rules. He should be held to the same decency standards the rest of the world is, if not even higher ones.
banning a large political community that isn't in violation of our policies would be hugely problematic, not just for Reddit, but for our democracy generally. Political speech is the most protected form of speech in the United States, and we are sensitive to that and take cues from the government when we think about our policies.
Political speech is protected from being silenced by the government. Reddit is a private corporation. They're free to decide if they want to ban a bunch of terrible bigots from their platform....
Political speech is the most protected form of speech in the United States, and we are sensitive to that and take cues from the government when we think about our policies.
Political speech is protected from being silenced by the government. Reddit is a private corporation. They're free to decide if they want to ban a bunch of terrible bigots from their platform. They shouldn't hide behind the first amendment,
Yeh this notion is ridiculous. If I were to try and walk into any business and start swearing and throwing political insults at the staff and other guests, I would be quickly removed. It should be...
Yeh this notion is ridiculous. If I were to try and walk into any business and start swearing and throwing political insults at the staff and other guests, I would be quickly removed. It should be no different in the digital realm.
Any other subreddit would have gotten the boot long time ago, it still surprises me they actually hold on to /r/The_Donald. Is Reddit afraid to face the kind of "anti-conservative bias" scrutiny other platforms are being confronted with?
Is it though? He did an AMA there but it was never set up in any way as an official community. Presumably no moderators are connected to the administration, and the admins haven't given it any official status.
The_Donald might be the biggest, but I'd imagine there are other Trump-supporting subreddits out there which are less unruly.
So what? It doesn't give him the right to flaunt the rules. He should be held to the same decency standards the rest of the world is, if not even higher ones.
I get that. I was responding to Twitter's reasoning. I find it extremely unconvincing.
Political speech is protected from being silenced by the government. Reddit is a private corporation. They're free to decide if they want to ban a bunch of terrible bigots from their platform. They shouldn't hide behind the first amendment,
Yeh this notion is ridiculous. If I were to try and walk into any business and start swearing and throwing political insults at the staff and other guests, I would be quickly removed. It should be no different in the digital realm.