These shifts mirror changes in Reddit’s overall governance approach. Several months later it purged most of the community’s volunteer moderators, arguing they weren’t upholding the platform’s policies, particularly through allowing banned content to stay up. In June last year, Reddit “quarantined” the subreddit over posts inciting violence. Before the ban, it had more than 790,000 subscribers and was at times one of the most popular subreddits on the platform. Started in 2015, r/The_Donald was the largest and most controversial subreddit dedicated to supporting Trump. Even in cases where individual governance decisions benefit society, the information economy remains primarily motivated by profit.įacebook vs news: Australia wants to level the playing field, Facebook politely disagrees Upon a close look, the removal of r/The_Donald exposes the inadequacies of market-based information governance. PAUL MILLER/AAPĪccording to the New York Times, Reddit also banned another 2,000 communities across the political spectrum alongside the pro-Trump community, including left-leaning groups.īut while some may celebrate these actions, the moves should be understood within the context of a largely deregulated information economy, in which “doing good” is mostly about “doing well”. American company Reddit was founded in 2005.

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