TD literally was a breeding ground for incel hardcore altright racists and nothing was done about it.
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Much as I dislike Reddit, I dont think they are to blame here
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
i_am_hungry@meganice.online 1 year ago
What’s TD?
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
The donald. The breeding ground for the disgusting republicans we have now.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was more like a colony or infestation. The NRA, the Church, and FOX are the mother hives.
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit.com/r/The_Donald
Otherwise known as the front page of reddit for the entirety of the 2016 presidential election. Every single post on /r/all was either pro Trump stuff from The_Donald or pro Hilary stuff from /r/Politics. As a non american, it made using Reddit painful, being constantly bombarded with stuff about the election.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wasn’t it banned? That feels like more than “nothing”
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yes. In 2020. After raiding other subs.
Not because they broke any laws or were racist. Just TOS shit.
If you then claim that reddit did anything to combat the alttight uprising i have a bridge to sell you.anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think they tried to allow for almost any uprising on every side. It’s good for business. And what’s good for business is good for their Chinese investors.
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, it took waaay too long for anything to be done about it. I feel like they kept it going for so long because it was drawing people to Reddit and improving engagement etc. Even when they did step in, they just quarantined the subreddit.
jimbolauski@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit has edited content, that IMO opens them up this. Once they start removing legal but undesirable content they are tacitly approving the content they haven’t removed.
Zithero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit worked very hard to protect all anti-nazi imagery and stop people from posting anti-nazi sentiment. I’d like for someone to acknowledge that they silence anyone who posts anti-nazi shit and who speaks about killing Nazis.
Many are here because of that.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They kept the_donald around for years after they helped organize a nazi rally.
ThePenitentOne@discuss.online 1 year ago
Reddit is seriously dogshit. Shitty admins, shitty users and shitty investor interests ruined the site completely. The platform will never turn back. It’s gone fully into the hive-mind/censorship direction, likely because it keeps people on the site and maximises revenue.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It could be the killing part not the nazi part that they silenced you.
ThePenitentOne@discuss.online 1 year ago
As if killing people is some ultimate evil? WW2 literally happened with the purpose of stopping the Nazis, and the only way was killing them due to their ideology requiring force.
People die every day for no reason, some suffer their entire lives’, some people die due to indirect/direct consequences of greed by corporations. The US has killed millions through geopolitical interference. Yet killing somebody who would have ‘unideal races’ genocided is too far? Sure. As if liberals aren’t ok with killing people as long as they agree with the perpetrator.
Fucking ridiculous. If people feel so strongly to publicly announce wanting to kill you, they are either insane, or you are fucked up. And in this case, I think we know the answer.
Zithero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s their claim, but it’s not like I’m advocating killing a person or anything of value. I’m advocating to kill a Nazi. That’s just being an American Citizen.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 1 year ago
They also censor content that is just outspoken again nazism and linking the current fascism in the american right to the fascists in history. Meanwhile on /r/conservative fake news and conspiracy theories about the election, the raid on Mar a Lago, racist conspiracies around BLM and violence from cops, and every other topic of republicans and democrats is a okay for reddit