# Reddit bans pro-Trump forum due to rampant hate speech **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687 "2020-06-29T19:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/1 "2020-06-29T19:37:09Z")
> **[Social media platforms face a reckoning over hate speech](https://apnews.com/article/6d0b3359ee5379bd5624c9f1024a0eaf)** > > For years, social media platforms have fueled political polarization and hosted an explosion of hate speech. > [@](#): > > Reddit, an online comment forum that is one of the internet’s most popular websites, on Monday banned a [pro-Donald Trump forum](https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/) as part of a crackdown on hate speech. > > The Trump forum was banned because it too often hosted content that broke Reddit’s rules, including encouraging violence, and “antagonized” the company. It had previously [tried to discipline](https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759967/reddit-quarantines-the-donald-trump-subreddit-misbehavior-violence-police-oregon) the forum. > > The pro-Trump forum was banned as San Francisco-based Reddit took [down a total of 2,000](https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/) of the forums, or subreddits, most of which it said were inactive or had few users. > … Reddit is wild and wooly and overall resembles an unmade bed. But this is some forthright action from the top! Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/2 "2020-06-29T20:12:18Z")
Holy crap, they actually banned The\_Donald?!! Wow! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/3 "2020-06-29T20:16:10Z")
They banned a pro-Trump forum. I don’t think Donald himself ever posted in Reddit. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/4 "2020-06-29T20:32:38Z")
The\_Donald is the name of the forum. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/5 "2020-06-29T20:40:51Z")
I know, but I wasn’t 100% sure the poster knew that, since we sometimes refer to trump here as The Donald. My bad. (Sort of.) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/6 "2020-06-29T20:43:48Z")
FWIW, Trump refers to himself as The Donald, so one can see where the confusion could come from! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/7 "2020-06-29T21:07:16Z")
Unfortunately, it happened about six months (A year? A decade? Time is weird right now) too late. The\_Donald was pretty firmly muzzled a while back, and so the denizens thereof have already moved to other fora, like /r/conspiracy and /r/conservatives. However, it’s nice to see Reddit finally taking some responsibility for the environment they built. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/8 "2020-06-30T00:34:10Z")
Twitch has temporarily banned Trump for hateful action. > **[Twitch has suspended Donald Trump's account | Engadget](https://www.engadget.com/twitch-suspends-donald-trump-account-174145621.html)** > > The President's account broke the platform's hateful conduct policy.. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/9 "2020-06-30T01:12:54Z")
I think they banned a far left leaning forum too (chapotraphouse), but I haven’t heard that much about it as it doesn’t seem to make that big of a splash. I think they also changed their policy to ban hate content, except for content that is against the “majority”. That sort of hateful content is apparently still allowed. THere is currently debate on what that means, or how wise that is. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/10 "2020-06-30T01:45:36Z")
So where did those head off to? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-bans-pro-trump-forum-due-to-rampant-hate-speech/913687/11 "2020-06-30T02:01:04Z")
There is a unrelated but similar in format forum where the alt-right types have gone. I’m not going to say the name but it’s easy enough to find. This really isn’t as big a deal as the media are making it out to be. /r/The\_Donald was effectively muted months ago when reddit removed a bunch of their moderators and since then it hasn’t been very active.