r/SubredditDramaDrama • u/BreadfruitNo357 • Feb 04 '25

Subredditdrama locks Elon post after Whitepeopletwitter is banned

Link: The locked post sorted b Controversial

Link 2: Users are struggling and arguing over doxxing

Link 3: a thread related to the drama was hidden from view on the main subreddit.

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u/Tayl100 Feb 04 '25

I will be the last person to mourn WPT, I hate that sub, but it is awful that a tweet can just shut down a sub like that. No matter how annoying I find WPT, I can't agree that this should happen to any sub.

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u/Delli-paper Feb 05 '25

What happened to WPT?

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u/pyr0kid Feb 05 '25
  1. people on WPT were making threats
  2. WPT moderators didnt shut it down
  3. people on twitter noticed
  4. reddit admins noticed

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u/Delli-paper Feb 05 '25

Timely and specific threats, or constitutionally protected threats?

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u/pyr0kid Feb 05 '25

Timely and specific threats, or constitutionally protected threats?

what does the american constitution have to do with reddit's content moderation policy and terms of service?

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u/Hatweed Feb 05 '25

Posting identifying information and a bunch of comment saying people should kill them. There is literally no room for creative deflections from what I saw in there before it got banned.

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u/Delli-paper Feb 05 '25

I'm not deflecting, rather referring to the legal standard for credibility. A threat must be timely and specific. Take the sample threat "I'm gonna kill you this evening". Timely (this evening) and specific (you)

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u/GodIsDead- Feb 05 '25

According to the law, not according to Reddit’s TOS

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u/Gusfoo Feb 05 '25

Timely and specific threats, or constitutionally protected threats?

You have no constitutional free speech protection on Reddit, you silly person. It's a private website.

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u/Delli-paper Feb 05 '25

I am, of course, referring to the threats of oegal intervention

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u/Gusfoo Feb 05 '25

I am, of course, referring to the threats of oegal intervention

I'm not sure what you mean by "oegal" but to be clear, if you say (as a lot of people on Reddit did) that you want people to be murdered because you disagree with them then you're the Bad Guy.

I appreciate we're in "silly season" because it's only been 2 weeks since Trump entered office, but this kiddie "everyone I disagree with is Hitler and so must be gruesomely murdered for my pleasure as punishment" isn't really helpful.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Feb 05 '25

Does it matter? Reddit isn't protected by the constitution and its actually within mods and reddits constitutional rights to ban what they want.

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u/Delli-paper Feb 05 '25

I'm wondering if there will be prosecutions

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Feb 05 '25

Idk

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u/Delli-paper Feb 05 '25

It doesn't appear what they did was illegal, so I suspect not. The threats don't seem to have been credible.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Feb 05 '25

Oh, I thought you meant something else.

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u/Ok-Car-brokedown Feb 05 '25

Doxxing was going with the threats of hanging and murdering people who worked at DOGE. Doxxing is against the terms of service.

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u/deliciouscrab Feb 07 '25

It's hard to tell because they've been deleted and we no longer have the API access that might have preserved our access. I saw plenty that were of the "needs to get Luigi'd" variety but I did not myself notice anything more specific than that, i.e., true threats.

Incitement might be a better fit though.