Reddit said Monday it was banning about 2,000 subreddits including r/The_Donald, where supporters of President Donald Trump had gathered, in a crackdown the tech company said was aimed at communities that promote hate.
"All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith. We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity," the tech company said in a statement.
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Reddit had previously placed r/The_Donald behind an extra page that required users to click through, a restriction the company referred to as a "quarantine." But even after that limited punishment, the subreddits moderators "have refused to meet our most basic expectations," Reddit said.
Many of the 2,000 other banned subreddits were dormant or had few daily users, Reddit said. Only about 200 had more than 10 daily users.
