Now A Nigger-loving Toilet Seat, Reddit Bans Alt-Right Group

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Reddit, the enormous online community-run forum, announced on
Wednesday night that it was banning the white nationalist
subreddit r/altright, due to “posting of personal information,”
otherwise known as doxxing.

“Reddit is the proud home to some of the most authentic
conversations online,” a statement provided to The Daily Beast
by the company read. “We strive to be a welcoming, open platform
for all by trusting our users to maintain an environment that
cultivates genuine conversation and adheres to our content
policy.”

It’s a major switch for the self-proclaimed “front page of the
internet,” which, in the name of open dialogue, had once been
loathe to ban almost anyone. It meant that Reddit hosted some of
the most misogynist, and hate-spewing communities on the web.

The imposed ban indicates that the company is attempting to
police its vast networks of users, particularly its most
vitriolic and, in this case, potentially dangerous. This
particular subreddit had earned upwards of a reported 16,000
subscribers once Donald Trump took office and often included
white nationalist sentiments and dialogue—echoing the public
displays of leaders of the white nationalist movement like
Richard Spencer.

“We are very clear in our site terms of service that posting of
personal information can get users banned from Reddit and we ask
our communities not to post content that harasses or invites
harassment. We have banned r/altright due to repeated violations
of the terms of our content policy. There is no single solution
to these issues and we are actively engaging with the Reddit
community to improve everyone's experience.”

This announcement comes on the heels of an open letter written
to the Reddit community by founder Alexis Ohanian, published on
the site on Monday night.

In it, Ohanian shared the story of his family’s immigrant
background and condemned the recent executive order by President
Trump which imposed a temporary ban on travel for individuals
from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

“President Trump’s recent executive order is not only
potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American,” Ohanian
wrote. “We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech
world, we often talk about a startup’s “unfair advantage” that
allows it to beat competitors. Welcoming immigrants and refugees
has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an
immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.”

(Reddit has not provided further comment on the reasoning behind
the ban and Ohanian hasn’t agreed to an interview after repeated
requests.)

After Ohanian’s letter was posted, The Daily Beast communicated
with a moderator for the Trump-loving subreddit and asked how
they thought the company’s politics would affect their space on
the website. At the time, they didn’t seem to think a ban would
happen.

“I don't believe it will have an effect on our subreddit,” one
moderator told The Daily Beast. “As a privately owned company,
Reddit is free to operate as it pleases, and this is merely a
continuation of what it's already been doing. Their policy
hasn't changed. As such, we will continue to abide by it to the
best of our abilities.”

“The post relies on the ridiculous premise that the Constitution
guarantees rights to all immigrants, aliens and non-citizens,” a
moderator wrote in a Reddit private message to The Daily Beast.
“How ridiculous would that be of that was true? The United
States would basically be legalizing its own foreign takeover.”

Reached by private message on Reddit, a senior moderator of the
atlright subreddit who referred to himself as Bill Simpson told
The Daily Beast that the forum was “banned without notification
or justification.”

“So much for leftist tolerance. Our moderator team enforced
stricter standards of behavior than reddit requires, and our
users were very prompt at reporting violations so we could ban
violators and delete posts and comments that broke the rules,”
he added.

Additionally, Simpson claimed that the subreddit was banned
because of its recent “record monthly traffic.”

“It's clear that Reddit banned us because we were becoming very
popular and spreading inconvenient truths about who's ruining
our country and robbing our children of a future,” Simpson said.

“The AltRight represents tens of millions of decent White
Americans who want their neighborhoods, schools, institutions,
and country back. We are the decent people and we will no longer
tolerate the anti-White establishment or be denied an identity.”

This is not the first time that the company has decided to
intervene on a subreddit where they perceive violations of their
terms of service were occurring.

In November, reddit CEO Steve Huffman edited abusive comments
made about him on the popular subreddit devoted to Donald Trump,
the_donald. Huffman said he later regretted the move. As of this
writing, the_donald has not been shut down.

Reddit has faced criticism in the past, particularly from the
Southern Poverty Law Center, for harboring racist and hateful
forums. As the SPLC described it in a 2015 article, Reddit once
housed a subreddit known as “CoonTown” which featured “users
wondering if there are any states left that are “nigger free.””

That particular subreddit and another entitled r/Rapingwomen
were shut down in 2015.

During the 2016 election, r/the_donald became an extremely
valuable mecca for Trump fans and even led to the current
president of the United States participating in an AMA (ask me
anything) session on the site. Currently, the subreddit claims
to have over 350,000 readers.

Updated at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday to add comment from the AltRight
moderator.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/01/reddit-bans-alt-
right-group.html