How Reddit’s quarantine of The_Donald Presaged Social Media’s Control Over Information

40    28 Apr 2020 17:39 by u/copybooklord

17 comments

25 u/Unkn0wn77777771 28 Apr 2020 22:04
It bothers me that td was closed out the way it was. Trying to block out a whole political movement only enforces more division. I used to go to td whenever polarizing news came out just to see the posts and comments about the event. I would generally find some kind of common ground, mixed in with shitty jokes. Going to the new site is way worse. It's like going to your uncle's Facebook page. I don't know if the users just get away with more, or if I just didn't notice how bad it was before the quarentine.
-16 u/theaussiewhisperer 29 Apr 2020 00:27
You break rules, get given several chances to clean up, and continue to break rules - it was pretty obvious those blokes were too proud to back down to admins. r/conservative is a similar lot with less trump centric shit, which hasn’t been censored in any way despite being part of the same movement. Really tells you that the T_D mods were pretty belligerent or retarded
-16 u/___Galaxy 29 Apr 2020 01:44
Nah man. You guys broke the rules, stop trying to change the narrative. If they truly wanted to censor it, they would have just banned the whole thing off. But they aren't stupid, so they just quarantined it.
6 u/Unkn0wn77777771 29 Apr 2020 02:02
I am not trying to change anything, I wasn't subbed to td. However I did follow what happened and Reddit did far more than just quarentine. All that did was push them into a different website. The information is still out their it just isn't hosted by Reddit.
2 u/Endless_Summer 29 Apr 2020 10:00
They followed the rules closer than any sub on this site.
2 u/TaylorSpokeApe 29 Apr 2020 01:57
What you are seeing is only some people made the transition, and their style, if you want to call it that dominates there. I loved the Donald, but don't spend a lot of time over at the new site.
0 u/Unkn0wn77777771 † 29 Apr 2020 02:04
I only recently went over to see what they thought about corona. It was much much more ignorant then anticipated.
2 u/TaylorSpokeApe 29 Apr 2020 02:06
I don't feel it's the same crowd at all. They aren't even parroting Trump on it.
-38 u/imahik3r 28 Apr 2020 18:16
It's amusing watching TD censors whine about censorship.
7 u/copybooklord [OP] 28 Apr 2020 18:19
Are you talking about /r/the_donald or www.thedonald.win ?
19 u/lookatmeimwhite 28 Apr 2020 21:29
Your post history is amusing. Looks like you go from sub to sub talking shit. I think you need to get a life, mate.
1 u/[deleted] 28 Apr 2020 22:09
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0 u/imahik3r 29 Apr 2020 13:11
> Your post history is amusing From a donald supporter. Hilarious.
3 u/CTU 28 Apr 2020 22:46
So they should just accept it?
-1 u/imahik3r * 29 Apr 2020 13:08
What a bunch of school yard sissies. You're all for censorship when you have the scissors yet whine like bitches when someone edits you. - You can't complain when you do the same damn thing Karen. - - “When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.” ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
1 u/[deleted] 30 Apr 2020 00:45
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3 u/zgembo1337 29 Apr 2020 09:44
TD is/was literally a "fan club" page, compared to eg politics, which claims they're unbiased