[Stefan Mileschin]

Someone has a problem with Trump supporters planning to kill police and elected officials

Social media site Reddit has restricted access to a major forum for supporters of US President Donald Trump, citing threats of violence against police and public officials.

Users accessing the r/The_Donald forum, or subreddit, are now met with a message asking: “Are you sure you want to view this community?” before they click to enter.

Quarantined subreddits also are not included in searches or recommendations.

With about 755,000 subscribers, is one of the largest online forums for Trump supporters, bills itself as “a never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump”.

As a candidate in 2016, Trump held an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session on the subreddit in which he fielded questions from members.

A note from Reddit administrators, posted by a moderator in the r/The_Donald subreddit, said they had observed repeated rule-breaking behaviour and, recently, encouragement of violence against police and public officials in Oregon.

Some members on the site were cross that democratic Governor Kate Brown called for police to bring back Republican state senators who fled the state so climate change legislation could not be passed. They called for the deaths of police and of course Brown herself.

A Reddit spokeswoman said in a statement said that site-wide policies that posting content that encourages or threatens violence is not allowed on Reddit.

“We are sensitive to what could be considered political speech. However, recent behaviour, including threats against the police and public figures is content that is prohibited by our violence policy.”

https://fudzilla.com/news/48949-redd...ro-trump-forum