Reddit just banned r/The_Donald, the largest pro-Trump subreddit, as it cracks down on hate speech

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  1. CCitizen

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    As I said I am not Liberal and not Conservative. In many ways, Chinese Partial Socialism is superior to both.
     
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    Nothing more than reddit implementing a new policy and selectively applying it to those they want to silence.

    It's the left trying to silence all those who disagree with them. I don't give a **** what you call it, it's something North Korea would be proud of.
     
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    Basically the libertarian Reddit where you can up voat (ahh? Get it? Ugh. It hurt just to write that) your favorite topics.

    Never really checked it out personally but evidently when Reddit quarantined The_Donald they all went there, and then promptly returned when they realized it was a place where there is no quiet part.

    I heard they were trying to build something else more akin reddit but not sure if it ever got up and running.
     
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    Hate speech is not protected speech under the 1st Amendment.
     
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    Facts and Truth cannot help the fact that facts and truth have a liberal bias.

    Facts and truth cannot help the fact that conservatives love innuendo and lies. Proof? Hannity ( recall for months he pushed the debunked Uranium One story ).
     
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    So you are mimicking De Blasio now?

    Nice.
     
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    I"m filing that in the right wing wishful thinking file.
     
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    Yes, and nothing spells 'spoiled brat' and 'hypocrites' to the world when you have one nation shouting to the rest of the world they are 'exceptional' when there is every evidence it is far from the truth.

    What America needs now is real leadership,( which we do not have ) and less people who pine for 'American exceptionalism' ad nauseum.
     
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    Pssst, there's a commie under your couch, better grab the anti-commie cooties Lysol and shoot up with it.
     
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    yeah, and Ayn Rand was wacko, too. Just what America needs, another escapee from the USSR to save Americans from 'liberalism' under the banner of 'there's a commie in your car, there's a commie in your house, here's a commie, there's a commie, every where there's a commie, one to three DRINK (the kook-aid).' ( sung to the tune of 'they're coming to take me away, ha ha ho ho, hee hee ).

    Jeezus frickin' keeerist you guys are nauseating.
     
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    Trump is a malignant narcissist and demagogue. This, his criminality and corruption, and the fact that he actively harms and weakens our country every day he remains in power is why he opposed by Democrats, Republicans and independents alike.
     
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    Feel better?
     
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    I take you live in denial of these obvious facts?
     
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    OhI agree! Trump is the worstest person in the world. He's a Russian Nazi racist spy who invented narcissism and needs to be impeached every 15 minutes.
     
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    Nice try, but you have it backwards. Only the gov't can enforce our free speech rights, which is why we should all be calling on the gov't to enforce said rights, by reigning in reddit and others who violate such rights.
     
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    You're only making yourself look bad, bud.
     
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    Just about right. Maybe not a nazi, though Trump does share some demagogic qualities of Hitler, but not Hitler's oratory skills, and he didn't invent narcissism, some greek guy named, well, Narcissus, did.
     
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    How old are you?
     
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    why do so many Trump support use hate speech?
     
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    yep, if his family had stayed in Germany... who knows
     
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    I'm a free speech type of person. If I don't like what you say than I don't like what you say BUT I'm not going to try to ruin your life over it. I may think that your a flaming ass but "Sticks and stones" people "sticks and stones" grow a pair of gonads and go about your business.
     
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    You realize the lack of leadership is because of the failure to live up to our exceptionalism, right? I made a post on this, regarding foreign policy in the opinion threads. Prior to Trump, the same failures have occupied our highest offices and have done nothing with it. They will do nothing again, and we cannot unwoke ourselves to their failure.

    We must become more exceptionalist, not less.
     
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    Thanks, I checked it out. It makes your brain bleed. So many true nuts out there. Some things better remain unseen.
     
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    That is what I don't get. If you don't want to be banned, don't use hate speech or condone it. It is actually very simple.

    That "voat" place @ cubed talked about is full of N word posts on the first page. If that's what the Trump reddit was, it is clear to any normal person why it was taken offline.
     
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    When you are so afraid of losing an election that you ban/stifle the sitting President's supporters on every social media platform, you don't get to pretend to have any kind of moral high ground. I can understand your perspective though, it is rather apparent that the Democrats can't win in the marketplace of ideas so the wisest course of action to grab power is to remove the marketplace. Every tyranny of the past did it and China does it today. It is effective, VERY effective..... evil as the devil himself.... but effective.
     
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