Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”
like a number of smart people!—aren't surprised at the violence. 2/ https://www.wired.com/... Carl Miller / @carljackmiller : Here goes Reddit too. You really can't overstate how important r/TheDonald has been to the Trump internet - it is a cultural and political heart of the movement https://twitter.com/... Dr. emptywheel / @emptywheel : If Twitter has proof that Donald Trump is involved in planning a[nother] terrorist attack for January 17, they need to share that with the House for impeachment purposes. https://blog.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ali Breland / @alibreland : from discord: “While there is no evidence of the server being used to organize the Jan 6 riots, Discord decided to ban the entire server today due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection in the United States” Casey Stegman / @cestegman : All of this is the tech version of the end of a Scorsese mob movie https://twitter.com/...
What makes this round different is sequencing: Discord says there is no evidence the server organized January 6 — it is banning for the server's overt connection to TheDonald.win, the successor forum. Enforcement is now chasing a community across platforms rather than judging any single venue's conduct.
First-order effects
The Donald's organizers lose their real-time coordination layer on Discord, leaving the static TheDonald.win forum as their primary gathering point.
Reddit's parallel removal of r/donaldtrump means the movement's largest mainstream-platform venues are gone within a single news cycle.
Second-order effects
With platform venues closed, pressure concentrates on the standalone forum and its infrastructure — which culminates when domain owner Jody Williams pulls the plug on TheDonald's domain weeks later.
Every host in the chain now faces the same question Discord answered affirmatively: whether proximity to a banned community is itself a violation, raising enforcement costs for adjacent services.
Third-order effects
If the pattern holds, moderation cascades down the stack — platforms first, then forums, then domains — so that deplatformed communities must rebuild entirely self-owned infrastructure, where they are more visible to law enforcement but harder for intermediaries to police.
Discord's later disclosure that it removed 2,212 extremist and violent communities in six months signals this case is part of a standing enforcement program, not a one-off response to the Capitol attack.
The trend: Post-January 6 enforcement shows platform moderation operating as a cascade across companies and infrastructure layers, pushing banned communities toward standalone domains that are harder to supervise.
This is either a lie or an admission that analysts have been purposely steered away from monitoring right-wing threats. NBC reported on a wave of violent threats linked to the event in advance as did reporters elsewhere. The posts were public. https://twitter.com/...
In STILL OTHER news, @Discord says it has banned server The Donald, which was connected to TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit. Made decision “due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection,” spox says.
This and the Twitter bans scratch an itch, but they're symbolic gestures, not solutions. There are hundreds of subreddits worse than this, just like there are so many active twitter accounts that had an even more substantial impact in organizing what happened in the Capitol. http…
#BREAKING: @reddit has banned subreddit r/Donaldtrump 1. Not official Trump subreddit 2. Ban was result of repeated violations by community since Wed for glorifying and inciting violence 3. Community moderators were given previous warnings - Story to come on @axios
Thank you to the great @StevenLevy for joining me today @SXMPOTUS @SIRIUSXM with: A @realDonaldTrump Ban Is Easy. Fixing @Facebook and @Twitter Will Be Hard https://www.wired.com/...
This is just a case of “too little, too late”. But, keeping that aside, it's insane how much power the BigTech wields over the way our society functions - that simply blocking an account could have prevented this landslide of democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Wud Facebook & other social media giants done the same if Trump was not an outgoing President🤦🏻 ♀️@Facebook @Twitter shameless pandering to fascist powers the world over has resulted in the massive polarisation we see in our society today-Convenient for them to suddenly grow a s…
Discord says they have been monitoring the TheDonald community since October. a Discord spokesperson has provided the following statement in full https://twitter.com/...
.@EmmaGreyEllis looked at the Trump supporters and far-right extremist coalitions converging on the Capitol, and spoke to researchers who—like a number of smart people!—aren't surprised at the violence. 2/ https://www.wired.com/...
Here goes Reddit too. You really can't overstate how important r/TheDonald has been to the Trump internet - it is a cultural and political heart of the movement https://twitter.com/...
from discord: “While there is no evidence of the server being used to organize the Jan 6 riots, Discord decided to ban the entire server today due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection in the United States”
Look, even if you hate politics it is VERY interesting to see one of the most powerful people in the world being deleted off the entire internet lol. The end of Trump! https://twitter.com/...
You think he just gave that teleprompter speech because he believed anything he was saying? Of course not. Trump will always look out for only one person- himself. And, all the sheep who followed him yesterday are getting their first taste of getting run over by the Trump bus. ht…