![]() ![]() YouTube has banned six channels for violating its policies, including far-right racists David Duke, Richard Spencer and Stefan Molyneux. Twitter has permanently banned far-right provocateur Katie Hopkins. The move is likely motivated by the twin upheavals of the pandemic and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, both of which have been prompting internet companies to take unprecedented measures. r/The_Donald has been around – and had periods of far greater activity – for years, yet Reddit has only acted now. The problems with the ban are well known – timing and reasoning. “Ultimately, these are the moves we need to see platforms making in order to engender cultural change online.” “The unique cultures of other subreddits will likely not tolerate hate speech that was reported to be rife on the banned subreddits,” says Rosalie Gillett, a research associate for the Australian Research Council. ![]() “If they do, it’ll take them a long time to rebuild on that platform, but mostly they’ll migrate to smaller platforms where they are less likely to engage with as many people.”įormer dwellers of r/The_Donald will likely run into robust resistance if they try to colonise new subreddits. “They end up becoming much more of an echo chamber,” says Joe Mulhall, a senior researcher at the political action group Hope Not Hate. r/The_Donald, along with 2,000 other mainly dormant communities, including a subreddit for the fans of leftwing podcast Chapo Trap House, fell foul of these new standards, which require users to “remember the human” and claim that “Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalised or vulnerable groups of people“. Users must now abide by eight new rules, which prohibit, among other things, targeted harassment and revealing the identities of others. The ban results from an update to Reddit’s hate speech policies. On Monday, Reddit decided to take action. Since 2015, more than 790,000 people have congregated over at the r/The_Donald subreddit, posting memes, videos and messages in support of their hero, US then-presidential candidate and current president Donald Trump – who does not support the group but once blessed it with an Ask Me Anything – and debating head-scratchers like “is there a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy?” ![]()
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