The quarantine also restricts the message board, known as a subreddit, from generating revenue and limits its popular posts from reaching an audience in other parts of Reddit. The message board was the source of an infamous video that President Trump posted on Twitter in July 2017 showing himself beating up a man whose head had been replaced with the CNN logo. Some experts questioned whether such an action, which is designed to protect other Reddit users from stumbling upon offensive content, would actually address the problem of incitement to violence. I do think, however, that if The_Donald were not affiliated with the sitting US president, there’s a much higher likelihood it would have been banned. The platforms are extremely reticent to take any action that could be perceived as political, even when there are clear policy violations taking place.”

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 23:14 UTC