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You are correct. Reddit tried to change all the moderators on the Donald Trump subreddit a few months back and in response the moderators built thedonald.win. After the recent ban wave of subs several others moved to the '.win network'.

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Yes! It is happening everywhere. Any right or right of centric publication, channel, individual is ripe for targeting in the current social media landscape. There is literally zero protection or recourse. It is their platforms and they can do whatever they please. In essence, these social media companies wield influence greater than many Governments in the World. This sort of unchecked power is scary to say the least!

>Reddit tried to change all the moderators on the Donald Trump subreddit a few months back and in response the moderators built thedonald.win.

Not exactly true. They banned the top mods for not removing problematic content or posting some of their own. This led to there not being enough manpower to manage an active sub. So the remaining mods were instructed to hire new mods based on certain standards, like having a certain karma threshold on the sub.

>After the recent ban wave of subs several others moved to the '.win network'.

What subs are those and do they live on the same domain?

> What subs are those and do they live on the same domain?

Here's a list of them:

https://communities.win/p/GIEblc8H/list-of-win-communities/

- TheDonald.win

- OmegaCanada.win

- GavinMcInnes.win

- ConsumeProduct.win

- KotakuInAction.win

- KotakuInAction2.win

- WeekendGunnit.win

(no allegiance, just an observer)

I think the time has come for the major big tech PLATFORMS to declare their formal political allegiances and end the travesty they are 'just providing a Section230 service'. The EU's MEPs are organized by political views rather than party in a Burning Man style semi circle to debate the political views of the Commissioners and provide some input. In many ways the tech world could be organized in a similar way to better provide free speech and formally 'biased' platforms.

Section 230 has nothing whatsoever to do with political alliances. You can explicitly moderate your site in favor of any particular position (political or otherwise) and you still get full section 230 immunity for user provided content.

That was the whole point of section 230. Before section 230 there had been court ruling that said if you moderated you were then responsible for everything. Section 230 was written to reverse that.

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