Reddit is predictably going on a sub banning spree

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting... Watchpeopledie was already quarantined but now got banned. This is the first quarantine to ban that I've heard of. Maybe there's a need for Reddit alternatives after all!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18267645/reddit-watchpeopledie-ban-new-zealand-mosque-massacre-christchurch

[–]happysmash27 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They banned it to stop the spread of a video.

Everyone else seems to too.

Why are they censoring the video? What is in it? Now I want to download the video, which I would never want to do normally.

[–]Greedeater 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

WPD co-creator here; while we got sweet FA from Admins - as is tradition - when the banhammer was swinging, I daresay it was due to the press picking up the fact we didn't remove said video. Coupla journo's on Twitter were losing their shit about it (latching on to MrPs sticky comment initially) it gained traction, then Admins scraped the video.

Naturally, our users started sharing the link in PMs instead, so the thread was locked. Didn't stop em, so Admins nuked us, r/Gore, et al. Even the Discussion sub which specifically disallows links of any kind that weren't to Reddit.com itself.

So, that's it in a nutshell and now I'm here haha