/r/The_Donald has been quarantined.

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[–][deleted] 29 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 0 fun30 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Whoa.. Reddit is putting the election before the IPO it seems.

This bit about threatening police seems silly, I've never been to a more police friendly sub in my life

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

in oregon the republican state senators fled to idaho to not have to vote on a climate change bill, the democratic politicians talked about having cops go to idaho and kidnap the repubs and bring em back to make them vote. like 1 or two trolls on the donald said they would fight cops if it happened, none of it really mattered in the end because the oregon dems mysteriously backed down and capitulated and agreed not to hold the vote on the climate change bill. I do think something shady happened behind the scenes that bled into reddit, that situation there had the potential, however small, to turn into an armed uprising, authorities treated it seriously anyway.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Thanks man. Yeah I guess this got published and ruffled some feathers: https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-murder-cops-on-reddit-unless-youre-on-r-thedonald/

Seems like a tiny slip though and not a solid justification for quarantine.

[–]magnora7 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I agree. Seems like some agent provocateurs went to the_donald, stirred up as much violence as possible, and then the admins responded by banning the entire sub.

Would not be surprised at all if the violence-provokers were in bed with the reddit admins in some form or another. Rather than just banning the few bad eggs, they decide to throw out the entire platform. Something they've been probably wanting to do for some time now, since they seem more driven by ideology (possibly because they're getting paid) than traffic

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

The violence advocated against the state senators in r/news and r/politics was out of hand. I can’t remember how many reports I made. Useless I know, but at least someone has to deal with the report.

[–]InsultingCow 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it was trolls from the DNC, personally.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seems like the best theory. But also the reddit admins didn't exactly hold back either

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

It's bullshit and propaganda.

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

This really is their IPO. They are clearly being paid to manufacture the narrative. It's just not a public IPO.

[–]proc0 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've still to switch from old.reddit. I'll stop using reddit once they get rid of that.

[–]daiyuesen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suspect that politicians are threatening these social media companies with consequences if they don't do what they're told