Twitch: Suspends President Trump's account, Reddit bans The_Donald

The company confirms that his account Donald Trump on Twitch has been temporarily suspended.

ΕIn the meantime, reddit has closed the_Donald subreddit. Those trying to visit it twitch.tv/donaldtrump or r/ The_Donald / are currently receiving error messages.

A Twitch spokesman said:

Twitch cited two videos that violate them rules of. The first is the well-known start speech of Trump's campaign, which was recently rebroadcast on Twitch, in which Trump underestimates Mexican immigrants. "They bring drugs. They carry crime. They are rapists", says.

The second video was from Trump's recent rally in Oklahoma Tulsa. The president suggested that cutting off funding to the police would lead Hispanic men to rob the homes of women who are alone in them and attack them.

In accordance with Twitch,

Trump joined of Twitch in October 2019. His first stream was two days after his campaign rally in Minneapolis. According to Twitch, the company announced its rules to the president's team when it registered on the platform.

The company states: “We make no exceptions for political or news content and we will take action on any content our users report that violates our rules."

The platforms that make exceptions for content with news interest are Twitter and Facebook. Following reactions in recent weeks, Twitter has begun to point out and check some of Trump's tweets for the accuracy of their data. Facebook initially refused to take any action on Trump's posts, but after strong protests from employees and the departure of some advertisers, last week CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network would add tags to posts that violated his rules. .

Although Twitter has added a tag to Trump's tweet stating "When the looting begins, so do the shootings", Facebook has not yet taken any action for same post, on its website. Snapchat, on the other hand, stopped promoting the president's content on the Discover platform.

Meanwhile, data leaks and checks have prompted Trump to ask Congress to repeal the legal protections that social networks receive as internet platforms.

Enforcing "Basic Expectations" on Reddit

Several weeks ago the CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, pledged to step up efforts to combat racism, and today announced that the two notorious subreddits - The_Donald and ChapoTrapHouse - no longer exist, as do some 2.000 less popular subreddits.

"All communities on Reddit must adhere to our content policy in good faith. We banned r / The_Donald because he did not follow it, regardless of all the opportunities he was givenHuffman writes in a Publication stating that subreddit violated three specific Reddit rules.

Huffman states: “The community was constantly hosting and upvote more content that broke the rules, compared to the average (Rule 1), was hostile to us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8) and its mods refused to meet our most basic expectations . […] So far, we have worked in good faith to help them maintain the community as a place for its users - through alerts, mod changes, quarantine and more."

ChapoTrapHouse had similar breaches, according to Huffman.

"To be clear, all political views are permitted on Reddit - but all communities must act in accordance with our policies and do so in good faith, without exception", says.

Also, according to The Verge, today, the YouTube banned many extremist racist channels, including those belonging to the Stefan Molyneux, David Duke and Richard Spencer.

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