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by noelsusman 1523 days ago
IMO Chapo was banned as a misguided attempt at balance for banning /r/The_Donald, though it's not like they weren't an unruly bunch. Calls for violence weren't exactly unheard of there, ironic or not.

The rest of those are just banning discussions of illegal activity. Seems like a reasonable policy to me.
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Miner49er 1523 days ago
Trading beer and scotch isn't illegal, is it though? Neither is buying guns, or visiting/discussing dark net markets.

And it's not like there aren't thousands of other subs that discuss illegal activity. They haven't banned all the drug subs, or the hacking subs, etc. Pretty much any illegal activity you can still find subs for it. /r/streetracing, /r/piracy, etc.

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fsckboy 1523 days ago
> IMO Chapo was banned as an attempt at balance for the misguided banning of /r/The_Donald

FTFY

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noelsusman 1523 days ago
Nah. If anything that subreddit was kept around for way too long in a misguided attempt to not appear biased.
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