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Reddit, an online comment forum that is one of the internet’s most popular websites, on Monday banned a forum that supported President Donald Trump as part of a crackdown on hate speech.
The Trump forum, called The_Donald, was banned because it encouraged violence, regularly broke other Reddit rules, and defiantly “antagonized” both Reddit and other forums, the company said in a statement.
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Reddit’s action against The_Donald was part of a larger purge at the San Francisco-based site.
Also on Monday, live-streaming site Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, temporarily banned Trump’s account for violating its hateful conduct rules.
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Reddit has tweaked its rules and banned forums for white nationalists over the years in an attempt to rid its platform of vitriol, sometimes dealing with an outcry from users because of it.
