Reddit quarantines 25+ communities, more to come

"On a platform as open and diverse as Reddit, there will sometimes be communities that, while not prohibited by the Content Policy, average redditors may nevertheless find highly offensive or upsetting," reads the September 27 announcement by Reddit administrator landoflobsters. In it, he explains that policies on "quarantining" subreddits have been updated to reflect "learnings," and it will now be easier for Reddit admins to apply the measure to a wider array of communities hosted by the social media giant.

Within minutes, a long list of subreddits considered to upset average redditors were put into quarantine mode.

Major social media platforms have been scrambling to remove or hide "offensive" content since the shock 2016 US presidential election. In screenshot: a video transcribing a conversation at an Antifa rally has been put into Youtube's version of the quarantine: limited state (Update: subsequently removed entirely by YouTube; link has been replaced).

The hit list even included FULLCOMMUNISM and Ice Poseidon, a popular gay livestreamer who doesn't have the heart to say no as much of LA's homeless population makes pilgrimage to his home for food and shelter.

The move comes after several years of efforts by major social media platforms to remove communities and users considered problematic, usually right-leaning or transgressively comedic in nature.

The Reddit quarantine is designed to prevent the spread of such content beyond users who already know of its existence and where to find it.

Threads from a quarantined subreddit won't be listed in the "popular" or "all" sections, nor will they show up in search. Users attempting to access a quarantined subreddit will be presented with a warning page often containing messages and links designed to persuade the user to "leave hate" or adopt the official position on certain historical events.

Example of a quarantine notice, in this case from /r/Braincels.

While the Reddit administrator refused a request to provide a list of the affected communities, /r/reclassified is hosting a thread dedicated to compiling one. Their list may grow as more are discovered.

List of subreddits quarantined on Sept. 27th

r/watchpeopledie (433,335 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/CringeAnarchy (376,225 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/theredpill (292,612 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. For information on positive masculinity, please see the resources available at Stony Brook University's Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/csmm/index.php).

r/Ice_Poseidon (110,459 subscribers) [r/Ice_Poseidon2 not banned] {admin message}

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/FULLCOMMUNISM (60,642 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. For historical information on communism, please see the resources available at the Project on the Reconciliation of European Histories (https://eureconciliation.eu/institutions-promoting-awareness-and-remembrance-of-communist-crimes/).

r/Braincels (41,090 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. For information on positive masculinity, please see the resources available at Stony Brook University's Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/csmm/index.php).

r/911truth (14,886 subscribers)

It may contain a high degree of misinformation. If you are seeking historic information about the September 11 attacks, please visit the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (https://www.9-11commission.gov/).

r/WhiteBeauty (6,636 subscribers) [r/WomanOfColor not quarantined]

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/hearpeopledie (6,218 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/SubOfPeace (5,988 subscribers) {admin message}

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/fragileisraeliredditor (3,174 subscribers) [r/fragilewhiteredditor not quarantined] {admin message}

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/WhiteNationalism (2,344 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/White_Pride (1,873 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/BlackPillCentral (1,683 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. For information on positive masculinity, please see the resources available at Stony Brook University's Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/csmm/index.php).

r/AganistGayMarriage (1,560 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/GentilesUnited (1,284 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/ZOG (885 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, there is hope. Visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/AmericanisraeliPower (639 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/CringeChaos (603 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/NorthwestFront (551 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/GoyimDefenceForce (507 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/BritishisraeliPower (76 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. If you are seeking to leave a hate group and don't know how, visit Life After Hate (https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa) for help.

r/mayo_town (12 subscribers)

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

List of subreddits banned:

r/cringehaven (355 subscribers) [Created on Sept. 11th 2018]

This subreddit was banned due to subreddit quarantine evasion.

r/picsofdeadcops

This subreddit was banned due to being used for glorifying violence.

r/BlackCrime

This subreddit was banned due to being used for inciting violence.

September 28th:

r/Ice_Poseidon2 (4,189 subscribers) [quarantined]

It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content.

r/IslamicDiscussion (106 subscribers) [banned]

This subreddit was banned due enforcement evasion.

r/Cringetopia (Created on Sept. 21st) [banned]

This subreddit was banned due to enforcement evasion.

UPDATE: The quarantined subreddit list has since been deleted.

UPDATE: r/The_Donald, the world biggest pro-Trump community, has also been quarantined. Writes u/FreeSpeechWarrior: "The quarantine of r/the_donald makes it clear that quarantine exists as a censorious punishment, not as a means of preventing accidental offense as it was originally described by Reddit."

UPDATE: Reddit has since banned and quarantined huge blocks of subreddits and keeping this article updated with them all would be too big of a task. It even appears our own reporting led to one subreddit's demise. You can track subreddit quarantines with this r/reclassified search sorted by new.

  1. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    >It may contain a high degree of misinformation. If you are seeking historic information about the September 11 attacks, please visit the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (https://www.9-11commission.gov/).

    • 5 years ago
      A Goat Voat

      https://voat.co/ is a GREAT reddit alternative, most banned communities have already moved there.

  2. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    >FULLCOMMUNISM

    btw Anarchists are celebrating this because Stalin was transphobic:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/9jjyh9/on_the_fullcommunism_quarantine/

  3. 5 years ago
    GOOD

    I just want them to ban T_D. Imagine the delicious chaos and inevitable reaction.

    Hope yall are reporting away. let's make reddit a happy and safe space for the DNC.

  4. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    this shit is hilarious

    >It is dedicated to shocking or highly offensive content. For information on positive masculinity, please see the resources available at Stony Brook University's Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/csmm/index.php).

    >For more information on how to be a limped dick homosexual, follow this link

    I'm surprised there's clingers still there and there's anyone left to censor. who the fuck goes to reddit anymore except to collect leftist salt

  5. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    >So now Reddit treats its readers as children who are incapable of figuring out what is what and who is who. Wonderful.

    >"Dear reader, you are entering a big bad sub full of big bad evils, do not enter it! Please read our Party-approved materials! By the way, we screwed up our official app (which you downloaded to get rid of whiny pop-ups) yet again, so you will never see any quarantined stuff from your mobile! This is for your safety, good reader! Be a good drone and do what we say!"

    >And would anyone please explain me why I should bother to read 'positive masculinity' materials written by Michael Kimmel, who left his UN Women's Rights campaigner position because of - I kid you not - sexual harassment? Did you just endorse this man?

  6. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    WHITE WOMEN: SHOCKING AND HIGHLY OFFENSIVE

    • 5 years ago
      A Voat Goat

      https://voat.co/ is a GREAT reddit alternative, most banned communities have already moved there.

  7. 5 years ago
    chaim shekelstein

    >To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize

  8. 5 years ago
    the DIGGening

    RIP

  9. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    Awww dang. I frequented watch people die. But it is true, the comments were just pure cancer.

    And yes, watching people die from car accidents or whatever is morbid as hell. I used it more as a lesson of "Hey, be aware of the power of the huge thing you're speeding around in at 70mph."

    Keeps a perspective of how fragile life really is, and, surprisingly, I feel like I've become a better person after exposing myself to that kind of honestly awful content.

    But then you had the comments where it seemed like people were learning nothing, hating life even more, and just wanting to high of seeing it.

  10. 5 years ago
    Karl von Cuckenberger

    And so it begins...

    "For information on positive masculinity, please see the resources available at Stony Brook University's Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities"

    Also:
    "Project on the ~~*Reconciliation of European Histories*~~"
    They're at it again, with their convenient fake narratives.

  11. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    Styxx did a video on this:

    And Memory Hold:

  12. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    >r/911truth (14,886 subs)

    oh fug, there go my sides

  13. 5 years ago
    Winter Watch

    Neocon Hack Now Running Reddit’s Thought-Police Cesspool
    https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/10/neocon-hack-now-running-reddits-thought-police-cesspool/

    • 5 years ago
      a voat goat

      https://voat.co/ is a GREAT reddit alternative, most banned communities have already moved there.

  14. 5 years ago
    evagael

    I tried to access r/911truth and couldn't even "opt in" to see the page, so Reddit is locking some people out completely, maybe those who have never visited?

    • 5 years ago
      Lilly

      Can't do it from mobile or the app. You need to have access from a PC to "opt in" then it will let you go in.

  15. 5 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pornhub cumments section is the true redpill zone

  16. 4 years ago
    RodgerTieft

    Dangerous neuro technology is being used to hack, control, and torture innocent people around the world. This is a factual statement. You probably, or may not believe this right now, but my hope is by the conclusion of this lecture this evening you might be more convinced.

    I want you to imagine a world where people sit behind computers with security clearances and listen to your most personal thoughts, spy on your most private moments, and actually control your mind and body.

    This is not science fiction.

    This is reality.

    ______________________________________________________________

    This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzvIjmS6HEw) is to inform the public of electronic harassment, electromagnetic torture or psychotronic torture. Also know as gang stalking. The experiences of people who describe themselves as undergoing electronic harassment using esoteric technology, and who call themselves "Targeted Individuals" ("T.I.") vary, but include hearing voices in their heads calling them by name, often mocking them or others around them (voice to skull - frey effect) as well as physical sensations like burning. They have also described being under physical surveillance by one or more people. Many of these people act and function otherwise normally and included among them are people who are successful in their careers and lives otherwise, and who find these experiences confusing, upsetting, and sometimes shameful, but entirely real. Their are news stories, military journals and declassified national security documents to support these allegations. The New York Times estimated that there are more than 10,000 people who self-identify as targeted individuals in the US alone.

    Press accounts have documented individuals who apparently believed they were victims of electronic harassment, and in some cases persuaded courts to agree. In 2008, James Walbert went to court claiming that his former business associate had threatened him with "jolts of radiation" after a disagreement, and later claimed feeling symptoms such as electric shock sensations, and hearing generated tones and other strange sounds in his ears. The court decided to issue an order banning "electronic means" to further harass Walbert.

    Here is a list of patents:

    Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves – US Patent 3951134
    Apparatus for and method of sensing brain waves at a position remote from a subject whereby electromagnetic signals of different frequencies are simultaneously transmitted to the brain of the subject in which the signals interfere with one another to yield a waveform which is modulated by the subject’s brain waves. The interference waveform which is representative of the brain wave activity is re-transmitted by the brain to a receiver where it is demodulated and amplified. The demodulated waveform is then displayed for visual viewing and routed to a computer for further processing and analysis. The demodulated waveform also can be used to produce a compensating signal which is transmitted back to the brain to effect a desired change in electrical activity therein.

    https://www.google.ca/patents/US3951134

    Apparatus for audibly communicating speech using the radio frequency hearing effect – US Patent 6587729 B2
    A modulation process with a fully suppressed carrier and input preprocessor filtering to produce an encoded output; for amplitude modulation (AM) and audio speech preprocessor filtering, intelligible subjective sound is produced when the encoded signal is demodulated using the RF Hearing Effect. Suitable forms of carrier suppressed modulation include single sideband (SSB) and carrier suppressed amplitude modulation (CSAM), with both sidebands present.

    https://www.google.com/patents/US6587729

    Videos

    Allison Ireland on Neuroweapons - Targeted Individuals - Innocent American Civilians - V2K

    Dr Robert Duncan MIT Presentation Preview Neuroweapons American Civilians Targeted Individuals

    Articles

    Dr Robert Duncan
    http://drrobertduncan.com/index.html

    Wired Magazine - Tortured Lives of Targeted Individuals
    https://www.wired.com/story/mind-games-the-tortured-lives-of-targeted-individuals/

    Wired Magazine - My Father Says Hes a Targeted Individual Maybe We All Are

    https://www.wired.com/story/my-father-says-hes-a-targeted-individual-maybe-we-all-are/

    Rolling Stone - How To Survive Americas Kill List
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-to-survive-americas-kill-list-699334/

    Chicago Sun Times - Are You Being Tracked? Burned By Lasers Maybe Your A Targeted Individual
    https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/targeted-individuals-surveillance-government-paranoid/

    Ground Breaking Bill Proposal
    https://medium.com/@EccEveryday/groundbreaking-bill-proposal-prohibiting-organized-covert-torture-effected-with-electronic-weapons-7fb1a0c0380c

    Targeted Justice
    http://www.targetedjustice.com

    International Center For Abuse Against Covert Technologies
    http://icaact.org/

  17. 4 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not big on reddit. But most of the interesting ones (not many left) are quarantined now. Even the_donald I heard? Second class citizens lol.

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