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The subreddit The_Donald was “quarantined” after users posted threats of violence against police officers and politicians in Oregon, administrators said.
Reddit limited access to a forum popular with supporters of President Trump on Wednesday, saying that its users had violated rules prohibiting content that incites violence.
Visitors to the The_Donald subreddit were greeted Wednesday with a warning that the section had been “quarantined,” meaning its content would be harder to find, and asking if they still wanted to enter.
Site administrators said that users of the online community, which has about 750,000 members, had made threats against police officers and public officials.
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“The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an overreliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence,” Reddit wrote in a message to the site’s moderators, who shared the note publicly on Wednesday.
“Most recently,” the message continued, “we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence toward police officers and public officials in Oregon.”
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