Reddit drops the ban hammer on gun communities

To: Osage Orange

Probably so, but to their illiberal liberal minds it’s ‘the right thing to do’..................[may be their lawyers are telling them to to prevent lawsuits in case of another school shooting]......................

41 posted on 03/22/2018 8:52:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)

AR15.com

They won’t be banning gun threads any time soon.

42 posted on 03/22/2018 9:20:31 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)

Is she pre or post op?

43 posted on 03/22/2018 9:20:47 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)

I don’t care to makes liberals rich by participating in their liberal social sites. If that appeals to you based on their popularity fine, but that isn’t fighting, it’s giving in. Fightin means competing for those views on other platforms in the marketplace.

44 posted on 03/22/2018 10:16:43 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)

Indeed California isn’t a state it’s a disease.

45 posted on 03/22/2018 10:49:27 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)

Reddit has always been extremely liberal. It’s inhabited by uptight, white youngsters who are afraid of opposing views. They have a stupid upvote/downvote thing that allows them to get rid of opinions they don’t like.

46 posted on 03/22/2018 10:53:04 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor

To: BookmanTheJanitor

Reddit has always been extremely liberal. It’s inhabited by uptight, white youngsters who are afraid of opposing views.

Ahem...

the_donald

47 posted on 03/22/2018 11:06:43 AM PDT by Drew68

To: Daniel Ramsey

Reddit and Youtube will go through the ways of the dodo bird.

I hope they take Fakebook and Twitter with them!

48 posted on 03/22/2018 11:10:18 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

Yeah...and Reddit has been looking to get rid of the Donald

49 posted on 03/22/2018 11:11:42 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor

To: CincyRichieRich

PDJT hasn’t said a peep...Sarah Huckabee should call this out.

I haven’t heard ANY Repub make a peep, on this.

Have y’all???

Hello???? Pubbies/Conservative Reps......where are you????

50 posted on 03/22/2018 11:13:21 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)

To: BookmanTheJanitor; Drew68

Yeah...and Reddit has been looking to get rid of the Donald.

I don’t doubt that, at all.

51 posted on 03/22/2018 11:15:05 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)

Fightin means competing for those views on other platforms in the marketplace.

You don't get it.

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, comments sections of news sites, etc. didn't start out political. If anything, they were apolitical, open to every opinion. And then political opinions popular with conservatives started taking over. Conservative viewpoints DOMINATED these sites!

And then Donald Trump won. That changed everything. The Left panicked and forced these sites to shut down conservative voices by turning off comment sections and implementing speech codes. Leftism can't stand up to scrutiny so their immediate reaction is to shut it down.

Basically, the Left said, we're taking over YouTube and kicking you off!

Post a political opinion on Free Republic and nobody gives a shit. Nobody sees it. This place is a backwater.

Now post that same opinion over at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc and it's a problem. People are reading it, people outside the echo chamber. Hearts and minds are being changed, "Deplorables" are being created, and guys like Donald Trump are winning elections.

Do you know how many petitions there are to get Trump kicked off Twitter? Multitudes! The Left hates that he has an audience.

Fighting means competing for those views on other platforms in the marketplace? Really? Do you think Free Republic competes with Twitter? Reddit? Not even close! And if it did, Google would move to shut it down.

Why should conservatives surrender their presence on the top ten websites in the world and retreat back to 4,154th place? Build our own YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter? No need. They already exist. We just need to man up and take them back.

52 posted on 03/22/2018 11:21:21 AM PDT by Drew68

Reminds one of the admonition to be “in the world, not of it”, I’d say.

In other words, know what’s going on, be aware of it, but you don’t have to be all about it.

53 posted on 03/22/2018 12:37:47 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')

I don't think you get it. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit were created by, or purchased by, liberals. By using these platforms, you are giving them the only thing they want. You want to “fight for it”? You are again giving them exactly what they want. They push conservatives around without a second thought, demonetize videos against their own rules, ignore death threats against conservative commentators, ban conservatives for basically nothing...just enough to get people angry but not enough drive them away, but enough to “fight back”. That expands their platform and therefore revenue.

They need to be abandoned like myspace, another platform that “everyone” was on.

To be fair, I will advocate the constitutional position on whatever platform I find myself on, but I have no interest in actively supporting liberal platforms even if they are super popular.

54 posted on 03/22/2018 5:38:16 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)

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