Reddit Backs Its Neo-Nazis Four Months After Banning Alt-Right
Small, intense clusters of hate are thriving on Reddit’s extremist communities—and one is using the NRA’s newest ad as a recruiting tool.
>It’s okay to be a neo-Nazi onReddit.
>That’s according to a spokesman for the internet giant, which claims it has been cracking down on hate groups for years, and banned two alt-right subreddits in February.
>Extremist communities like r/EuropeanNationalism thrive on Reddit, the eighth most visited website in the United States, according to the web analytics firm Alexa. This week alone, the site has allowed threats of “gas chambers” to rise to the top of one subreddit before a partial removal, and another subreddit dedicated entirely to “physically separating and removing” Democrats from society has remained live.
>The latter group is also promoting an incendiary NRA video that critics charge is an incitement to violence.
>One of the top posts on r/EuropeanNationalism on Wednesday was titled “We’re going to need a bigger gas chamber,” linking to a photo of a person in drag. At press time, eight of the top ten posts on EuropeanNationalism, which has been a subreddit for two years, were posted by users who had a swastika or Nazi SS bolts next to their usernames.
>A third of EuropeanNationalism’s moderators are also moderators of the subreddit r/KKK.
>“Reddit is an expression of the open internet—and sometimes that can be an uncomfortable place. What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves, and we draw the line when one user expressing himself / herself freely infringes on another user’s ability to do so,” a Reddit spokesperson said.
>“Reddit grants moderators of communities on the site the opportunity to enforce their rules first. In this case, the post has been removed by the moderators of r/EuropeanNationalism.”
>While the “gas chambers” post is no longer visible on the front page of EuropeanNationalism,the post and comment thread remain visible on Reddit.
>The second-highest ranked post on EuropeanNationalism at press time was a quote from Adolf Hitler. “With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people,” it reads.
>The top post of all time asks white women if they “will choose to save [their] race.”
>Slightly more veiled threats of nationalist violence were levied on r/Physical_Removal, a far-right Reddit community dedicated to the “physical removal” of Democrats.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-backs-its-neo-nazis-four-months-after-banning-alt-right
>>131988223
>Reddit is an expression of the open internet
>>131988223
>Reddit is an expression of the open internet
heh
>>131988169
>giving outcast and fringe groups a means of expressing their grievances instead of attacking their beliefs and prompting a defensive reaction
What? the madmen
>Reddit is the expression of open internet
Containment areas are good for (((them))).
Can we get leddit fined in Germanistan soon?
>>131988470
>> Free Speech
Pick one
>>131989342
>
>leddit would rather keep evropafags around than put up with reddit trump memes
>>131988169
Natsoc stormfags are useful to the left.
Conservatives are a feckless opposition.
The alt-right/new right whatever you want to call it otoh has proved itself a deadly threat.