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Journo gloats over Voat shutting down (archive.is)

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– YouAreAPirate 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Poisoning the well in the headline, what despicable humans journalists are.

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– ZodShael 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

The whole thing is full of BS.

Voat first launched in 2014 as a smaller Reddit alternative dedicated to "free speech," including explicit hate speech, extreme right-wing content, racism, and other content limited or prohibited on other sites. It gained traction in 2015, when Reddit finally banned several explicitly racist subreddits from its platform in a bid to limit harassment, and some discontented Reddit users decided to migrate over.

This is a "technically true" statement. In the sense that reddit banned Fat People Hate (a sub with 150k+ active users) and a few racist subs that totaled around 2000 non active users. The majority of the users who found their way to voat were the FPH ones.

Once again history has been altered to suit the narrative.

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– HeckOffSteppersReeee 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Reddit does that shit all the time, they leave clearly illegal subs up for that specific reason.

Ban one illegal sub, like that stupid shoplifting one or whatever they banned about a year ago, and a whole slew of edgy, but otherwise legal subs, and you get built in plausible deniability that the press will absolutely never question.

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