The Donald
The Donald (commonly known as r/The_Donald) is an online forum that operates mainly on TheDonald.win,[1] and, in a restricted state, secondarily on it's subreddit r/The_Donald due to recent actions taken by Reddit against it. It is a conservative forum that describes itself as a "never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump."
On June 25th, 2019, The Donald's subreddit r/The_Donald was quarantined by Reddit, with the provided reason: "It is restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of the Reddit Content Policy. Most recently the violations have included threats of violence against police and public officials."[2][3]
On February 25th, 2020, Reddit removed 18 moderators from The Donald's subreddit r/The_Donald that it alleged were not acting in good faith, and were "approving, stickying, and generally supporting content . . . that breaks our content policy."[4][5] In another unprecedented move, Reddit created and stickied a thread on r/The_Donald for moderator applications to replace the moderators it had removed, which it said would be vetted by itself and then referred to r/The_Donald's moderators.[6] Due to r/The_Donald's sudden loss of moderators, it's remaining moderators placed the subreddit in a restricted state, where only approved users are able to submit posts as of February 26, 2020.[7]
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References
- ↑ thedonald.win (February 26, 2020), via archive.is. "...This is our new home"
- ↑ cnn.com (June 26, 2019), via archive.is. "r/The_Donald Quarantined"
- ↑ foxnews.com (June 27, 2019). "Reddit restricts pro-Trump forum, citing alleged threats: report"
- ↑ reclaimthenet.org (February 25, 2020), via archive.is. "Reddit purges half of The Donald’s top moderators and plans to replace them with Reddit approved mods"
- ↑ old.reddit.com (February 26, 2020), via archive.is. "We recently removed a number of mods from r/the_donald that were approving, stickying, and generally supporting content in this subreddit that breaks our content policy."
- ↑ old.reddit.com (February 26, 2020), via archive.is. "Apply here to become a mod of the_donald"
- ↑ thedonald.win (February 26, 2020), via archive.is. "We've put the subreddit in 'restricted' mode."
- ↑ thedonald.win (February 26, 2020), via archive.is. "FIRST, LETS HONOR THE MODS WE LOST IN THE FIGHT AGAINST REDDIT"
