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user-inactivated  ·  1607 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit bans 'The_Donald' forum in crackdown, Twitch suspends Trump's channel

It's definitely an empty gesture, complete with banning a few rude but innocuous left-wing subs so they can say they're just neutrally enforcing the rules. Still, the_donald going from untouchable to getting banned as an empty gesture says something about the context beyond reddit.