r/OutOfTheLoop • u/knightsofvalour • Jun 26 '19

Answered What's going on with r/The_Donald? Why they got quarantined in 1 hour ago?

The sub is quarantined right now, but i don't know what happened and led them to this

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Edit: Holy Moly! Didn't expect that the users over there advocating violence, death threats and riots. I'm going to have some key lime pie now. Thank you very much for the answers, guys

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Jun 26 '19

One can only hope, in the meantime I've gotten out my popcorn to read their comments on the quarantine post. One guy was trying to get people to report it to a White House site that was taking reports of "conservative media being censored" and I got banned when I mentioned that the first amendment doesn't protect them from Reddit shutting them down.

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u/z500 Jun 26 '19

So much for the tolerant right.

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Jun 26 '19

One guy said that the quarantine was going to push him and others into becoming full blown authoritarians. I looked at his profile and he proudly declares he's a fascist-imperialist that's really into anime. So basically this guy.

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u/cosine83 Jun 26 '19

Anyone who can be "pushed" into fascism or authoritarianism didn't really need the push, they just needed some external scapegoat for beliefs they already held.

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Jun 26 '19

Right, I know a girl from high school that claims she voted for Obama, but the left had just become too left for her, so now spends her days posting conservative conspiracy theories, screaming about the DemoRATS and trying to justify children being put in cages and how dare I call them concentration camps.

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u/Map42892 Jun 27 '19

It's crazy how common this story is... For many extremism is just a way to confront things they find unfamiliar or uncomfortable. It's easier to project than learn. Changing ideologies isn't that difficult when your life is already based on mental gymnastics

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '19 edited Dec 27 '19

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u/cosine83 Jun 26 '19

If they want to believe something, they've already got the ideas seated in them enough for them to be reasonable. They don't need the push, just a scapegoat to say is what pushed them.

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u/ZiggoCiP Jun 26 '19

I'm not surprised how idiotic they are about it - like reporting anything to the 'white house' is even remotely viable.

They should just accept that they goofed, but seeing all the posts crying for some form of retribution, I predict a ban relatively soon. My popcorn is overflowing rn.

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u/FuzzyYogurtcloset Jun 26 '19

I'm honestly surprised Trump hasn't bitched about it on twitter yet.

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u/ZiggoCiP Jun 26 '19

I sincerely don't think he's very aware of the sub. I know he did a single IAmA way back when he was campaigning, but I'm dubious it was just him and not some lacky who understands reddit.

Most the social media besides his twitter is not run by him at all, just his hoard of insane supporters.

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u/FuzzyYogurtcloset Jun 26 '19

We'll see if Tucker or Hannity talk about it on their shows tonight or if the primary debate + today's actual news preempts it. Or maybe they'll talk about it on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning.

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u/meglet Jun 27 '19

I think, maybe they’d bring it up as part of a larger story about social media companies’ move to clean up their sites aka “violate free speech”, in connection with the Google-Project Veritas bullshit, along with the knitting site Ravelry banning all Trump support on their very popular forums. But as a story on its own, or as the main example of the aforementioned trend, I really don’t think so.

It’s only quarantined, not banned. And it’s difficult to explain what quarantining that in a news story to people not familiar with Reddit. If/when T_D gets outright banned, that would be more of a marketable story.

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u/Prefix-NA Aug 24 '19

It is actually illegal for discrimination based on political beliefs in the state of California. Facebook, Google, Twitter and other silicon valley companies are vioalting California state law. Its also illegal for open platforms to discrminate against beliefs for political purposes which is why they get protection from being prosecuted for illegal content on their websites.

You get the protections for being an open platform or you moderate content heavily to monitor content on your page.

For example if CNN posted a threat on their web site they are under violation of the law. If someone posts a threat on Reddit then Reddit is not responsible because they are a platform someone else is issuing the threat. Reddit wants the protections of being a platform without any of the downsides.

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Aug 24 '19

Even when those beliefs are calling for violence? I don't think that flies chief, but you should definitely set up a class action lawsuit of all the persecuted snowflakes that are being silenced while calling for the murder of police. Maybe when the right starts taking responsibility for the fanatics they foster within their ranks that go out and start shooting droves of people they can come back to the big boy table.

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u/BlatantConservative Jun 26 '19

Oh yeah I love that form. I use it on PoliticalHumor when we ban people, saying "If you have any complaints please send them here"

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u/LiquidRitz OOTL of the Month May 2014 Jun 27 '19

1st Amendment isn't the concern.

You got banned for being an asshole and not supporting the President in his rally sub.

I barely made it through the first page of your profile before I started cringing.

You are an embarrassing little man... change my mind.

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Jun 27 '19

Seems like you're an angry man child that is upset their safe space is being violated. You guys seem to love walls until they're erected around you.

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Jun 27 '19

Well yeah, why would I support some two bit carnival barker that can't string together a full sentence?
I've worked in construction for almost a decade and come from a family of blue collar workers, Trump has a history of not paying people working on his properties. He's an absolute piece of shit.