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   his dick sucked by a nigger.   
      
   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   
         
      
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