Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
Worth taking note that in today&#x27;s climate, you really cannot win when you are in a position to moderate important things that a lot of people use.<p>There is constantly <i>tremendous</i> pressure on you to perform opposing actions, and even making no decision at all will cause you significant mental stress and harassment, regardles of what the issue is.<p>You have to pick who you want to cave to, and to what extent, and no matter how good of a job you try to do, a lot of people will <i>really really hate you</i>.<p>This is even more apparent when you see that Reddit has been taking action against a lot more subreddits recently, some of which are listed in the article, and many of which clearly have little to do with the president. The attitude of some of these communities may be abhorrent, but they are still <i>communities</i>, and people do not react well to their communities being deleted, whether a company had the legal authority to, or was justified in doing so, or not.<p>It&#x27;s very tough and I wish that we didn&#x27;t have to go through these things to begin with, and could have more federated and decentralized platforms, or at least more client-side filtering inside of centralization curation. I can always dream.