Ravelry, a popular social network and online community for knitters and embroiderers other contributions must support President Donald Trump and said that his government has the support of white supremacy forbidden “undeniable.” The website published a statement Sunday, outlining its new policy. “We can not create a space that contains all the pages and support for open white supremacist allow”, the statement said. Trump criticized in 2017, it was to say “well on both sides very people” were, on a white nationalist United in the wake of the violence, the right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ravelry is one of beliebtestenen online platforms for knitters and crocheters, with 8 million members, more than 100,000 followers on Twitter and 80,000 Instagram followers. While Trump trailers are not prohibited, they are asked to keep their political opinions to himself. The statement said: “We are definitely not a ban conservative policies. Hate groups and intolerance differ from other types of political positions”. Ravelry, adding that people are not prevented from expressing support for Trump in the past and not vocalize man to push people must support Trump in their opinions. A spokesman did not respond to requests for comment Ravelry TIME. The site did not indicate what they saw as a racist white media or different from Trump actions or measures his government in other ways against marginalized groups. But the site has quote adopt a similar rule set last year by a RPG.net RPG forum, provides as relevant references; eleven examples of values are the immigration policy of Trump Management, hostility to the transgender community and “dog-whistle love note [s] on the white nationalists.” “Further reading on this and” totally incompatible “with its own particular site above us all freely available themes from any reputable news site”, concludes the policy. The new policy has been learned with great approval in line to know, although some have criticized the side to make things politically. Others, in the knitting community and outside of it, Ravelry praised an attitude for recording. NPR reported that the pro-Trump projects appeared on the forum, including hats and scarf pattern, the “build a wall” and refer say Trumps make America Great Again slogan. Farrah Rochon, a crocheter the Ravelry forums for tips on hats occasionally visited says time you saw people from the photos of previous projects, support for Trump advertise, including blankets, or American flags boasting tell “Trump 2020” his name, “Trump name for the man,” he says. “The way they have co-opted the American flag to figure out that if you do not support Trump, you are not patriotic frustrates me.” Critics of the policy Ravelry says Rochon, reveal to what extent they will confuse a Republican to go with a white supremacist to be, despite the insistence of the website is that it is not the police of conservative thought. “I have many Republican friends that do not support or Trump. There’s a difference,” he says. “Ravelry said nothing about the Republicans, only that the Trump administration has absolutely proven to have white supremacist tendencies.” Knitwear has increased as a popular hobby in recent years and has been associated with progressive causes. In practice it went viral after thousands of women and made pink hats with cat ears regarding purchased at Trump disparaging remarks about women. Stricker and crocheters have statements made by bombing as yarns, fabrics or graffiti knitting yarn is made. Ravelry choice to take a firm stand coming to Usher Tech giants such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, to allow the consistent struggle message regarding hate speech and face the criticism extremism as a series of social media. In March, Facebook extended ban on sedition black and white power to ban separatism. prohibit YouTube a similar move earlier this month videos with white supremacist and neo-Nazi views. (At the same time YouTube was confident that conservative comic making homophobic comments Steven Crowder, criticized unshakable another video makers expected ;. The platform at the end of its channel temporarily out of course) communities like Ravelry are better able to rigid limits draw what is acceptable because they serve fewer people, according to Tiffany C. Li, a lawyer and his colleagues at Yale Law School information society Project. Li says Ravelry decisions without receiving so much backlash of large platforms can do, because their communities have people with similar views for the most part tend to be fragmented, while on places like YouTube or Twitter, people more. “The problems with large companies of social media to moderate content in very different ways,” he says. “The rules are inconsistent, and are constantly changing.” Li says Ravelry fully in the law, the people of prohibiting support for Trump expressed, because it is private and not state-owned. To Rochon Ravlery often means the new policy for the site more often. “I actually look around there yesterday for the first time in a long time,” he says. “I’ll probably start back to the forums and community forums do.” Picture of daria_miroshnikova copyright-Getty Images / iStockphoto
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