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Reddit bans two prominent alt-right subreddits

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Dalek

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Reddit bans two prominent alt-right subreddits


Reddit has decided to ban two high-profile communities of the alt-right over what appears to be the posting and dissemination of personal information, otherwise known as doxing. The subreddit pages for r/altright and r/alternativeright are both inaccessible, with identical messages on both detailing a violation of Reddit's content policy, ”specifically, the proliferation of personal and confidential information."
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It's unclear right now who specifically was doxed, but chatter on Reddit alternative Voat suggests it was the man who punched alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer. Reddit was not immediately available for comment regarding the bans.

The alt-right is a loosely organized online coalition made up of white nationalists, Trump supporters, and other fringe conservative groups. On Reddit, members of the alt-right have flocked to subreddits sympathetic to or centered on the cause, which itself remains an amorphous concept with aims ranging from harassing anti-Trump protestors to promoting racist, xenophobic, and other white nationalist aims.
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Of course, there are still far more prominent communities, like r/The_Donald, where alt-right members and sympathizers congregate on Reddit.

Still, that Reddit as a company is taking a stand against these communities is notable, if only after the outright violation of its policies. Earlier this week, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted a impassioned open letter to the company's blog that called Trump's immigration ban ”deeply un-American" and detailed his past as the son of an undocumented immigrant and the great grandson of refugees who fled the Armenian genocide.
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Seesaw15

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Reddit and Twitter are forever on my shit list for how they handle these things. Too little too late but glad they did something.
 
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jtb

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Too little, too late. Forget the societal impact, Reddit is a fucking unreadable cesspool and I don't think I'll ever return.
 
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RinsFury

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Why the FUCK is the_donald not banned yet? That's currently the biggest nazi message board in the world. Fucking disgusting how they refuse to shut it down.
 
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The Abominable Snowman

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Good.

Havent been on reddit much since me posting a pic of myself led to someone blaming all African Americans for everything that is wrong in my inbox. Way too many sick people on the internet.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Shao Kahn on the Lawn said:
Ask any moderator here how difficult it is to manage a relatively small community. reddit has millions of users, any of whom can create a subreddit about anything.
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Once we've gotten AI to finish beating us in all manner of games, they should task them for weeding out all the shit on Reddit. Now there is a challenge.
 
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torre_avenue

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4 is a cutie said:
Why does Reddit take forever to delete these types of garbage subreddits? And there's still plenty more
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I mean, it's the free speech argument and the slippery slope. Yes, they're garbage but they're entitled to their free discussion.There's also the fact that once they're banned, the cockroaches will just split up and flee to different "special snowflake" zones, making it harder to keep track of them.

It's a thorny problem that can't really be solved.
 
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UltimaPooh

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jtb said:
Too little, too late. Forget the societal impact, Reddit is a fucking unreadable cesspool and I don't think I'll ever return.
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Seriously?

Like I get they are slow about getting rid of this kind of shit... but there are plenty of fantastic subreddits on there.

You're missing out if you go. Half the general threads here are copy and pastes of threads already on reddit.
 
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smokeandmirrors

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torre_avenue said:
I mean, it's the free speech argument and the slippery slope. Yes, they're garbage but they're entitled to their free discussion.There's also the fact that once they're banned, the cockroaches will just split up and flee to different "special snowflake" zones, making it harder to keep track of them.

It's a thorny problem that can't really be solved.
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completely and utterly incorrect, especially on private sites.
 
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rjinaz

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smokeandmirrors said:
completely and utterly incorrect, especially on private sites.
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People continue to not understand what Free Speech is I guess. Got into with a friend of my brother's because he didn't like that that guy was fired for attacking Patton Oswalt. Free Speech.

I said, really, did the government arrest him? No? Then he still had his damn free speech.
 
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Einchy

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Came across this guy on Reddit the other day.
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It's sad how common I see those types of people on there.
 
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GeeRad

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Pop-O-Matic said:
They still haven't banned r/The_Donald yet despite it being easily the most prominent of the subs, though.
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The_Donald is hilarious! It's the biggest safe-space on the internet where people go to complain about safe-spaces.

I'm sure one day we'll find out r/T_D was just The Onions magnum opus all along.
 
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UltimaPooh

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smokeandmirrors said:
completely and utterly incorrect, especially on private sites.
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True but that's kind of reddit's hallmark... I agree tho that r/t_d and alright and all others should be banned but I would say reddit probably does a lot of thinking and looking into the matter before just pulling the trigger.

They aren't like Evil Lore and NeoGAF where from the very beginning he has stated this really isn't a free speech zone. Reddit is different.
 
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