That's true, but not really relevant to this discussion. You can't really deplatform a president; yes he was no longer on Twitter, but roughly 8 billion people listen any time he speaks.

That subreddit was banned far too late. They had been urging for violence and hatred for quite some time. But action was taken only after the clowns inside of it were declaring they'd murder police officers executing a warrant (regarding legislators staying home to block quorum or whatever it was).

Of course in 2026 it is apparently fine to break into homes without a warrant and execute protesters. The same people are able to "believe" two literally opposite concepts.

2015 - 2016 reddit was exploited to hell by the_donald and other associated reddits. Things like coordinated up voting of a pinned post to get it to shoot up the front page, private chats to manipulate voting in a page.

There would be times when you would go to the r/all and half the page would be posts from them.

Not to mention a lot of the organized harassment a lot of the mods/power users of that sub caused in the years after. It was a mess.

Hey quick question, around January 2021, what would happened that caused Trump to be deplatformed? Anything stick out in your mind?

As I see it, Trump was a symptom of something older.. no matter what effort were made to slow / avoid the issues, the mania was still growing.