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		colept on June 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassmen... The reddit admins failed to consider the Streisand effect: they made all of reddit an outlet by taking away the container that kept the hate isolated.

wetmore on June 11, 2015 [–]

It wasn't isolated. It showed up on the front page of /r/all frequently.

This will die down/blow over in a week or so anyway.

colept on June 11, 2015 | [–]

And now the hate is unconfined. The lesser nuclear solution to that problem would be to filter out undesirable content from /r/all to isolate it.

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