Redditt slams the BanHammer down on its Alt-Right sub-forum

[blogslut]

http://gizmodo.com/reddit-says-goodnight-to-alt-right-community-1791895544

Earlier today Reddit banned r/altright, the primary community on the site for the so-called “alt-right.” And for a variety of reasons, that’s about all we know.

The subreddit had always courted controversy and pushed the bounds of Reddit’s relatively lax policies on speech. Users from r/altright often made inflammatory remarks about a variety of marginalized groups and many espoused views in the white supremacist/national socialist spectrum. Two of the subreddit’s moderators also appear to have been terminated, though it’s unclear if that’s related to the subreddit’s ban.

Because moderators had artificially inflated r/altright’s subscriber count, there’s no telling how large the community was. Like other banned abusive subreddits (r/fatpeoplehate and r/pizzagate to name a few), r/alright have made a new home for themselves on Reddit knockoff Voat. That community presently displays 314 subscribers...

[guillaumeb]

1. This will be called "liberal media censorship". eom

[Maraya1969]

2. And I for one, don't give a fuck what they call it!

[guillaumeb]

3. Agreed. But we are in the (mainly) reality-based community at DU. eom

[backscatter712]

4. Now I need a picture of Reddit's alien mascot punching a Nazi.

This makes me smile...

[Initech]

5. Excellent! Fuck those armchair Nazis!!!

Armchair Nazis by the way, saw them at the Troubadour, really shitty band!