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fern@lemmy.autism.place 1 week agoThey were banned when reddit cracked down on any leftist thought, not because they were especially bad from what I saw.
Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
fern@lemmy.autism.place 1 week agoThey were banned when reddit cracked down on any leftist thought, not because they were especially bad from what I saw.
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They were banned around the same time as The Donald because everyone was tired of the shit both groups were doing.
fern@lemmy.autism.place 1 week ago
I do remember that, and I remember them half-assing the Donald by just letting them make a new sub (or overrun conspiracy irrc)
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yeah they immediately took over Conspiracy and consolidated the hold on Conservative. Made me really sad as conspiracy used to have some incredible rabbit hole posts. Then one day it was just TD all over again.
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
IIRC, the fun conspiracists moved to r/high_strangeness or something like that.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 week ago
The_Donald was dead amd had migrated to a non-reddit forum a month before the ban. It was typical “both sides” bullshit from a dude who always uses the kiddy gloves with fascists while throwing the book at any leftists
TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
They were banned while saying John Brown did nothing wrong and that slaveowners deserve to die.
Sounds pretty cool to me.
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
While true there was a lot more behind the decision than that final post. They had been fighting with the admins for a long time.
TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
There actually isn’t any such logic presented for the decision. Mostly just allusions to celebrating violence, the only examples of which were the anti-slavery posts I referenced.
TraitorToAmerica@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
evidence? I see people say this but from what I remember the mod team was repeatedly stonewalled by the admins, or at least that was their claims, and I don’t think the admins ever disputed that
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
The Donald had largely abandoned the sub well before it was banned though.
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Largely because they moved to different subs.
The Chapo crew didn’t want to calm down with all the threats of violence and other ridiculous antics. So they left completely.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Threats of violence against confederate slave owners.
Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 1 week ago
No, The Donald was encouraging political violence and was becoming a legal liability for Reddit to continue hosting. But they needed to ban a major left wing subreddit at the same time to do a “both sides bad” thing and preempt the fascist talking points about social media having a liberal bias.