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Especially given that /r/The_Donald is still around.

it's absolute bullshit that they haven't banned that cesspit yet

But political subreddits didn't start seeing bans until 2016. Around the same time, the face of the major news subreddits drastically changed as well. I don't know if it was a result of the election, but the timing does seem to consider further consideration of motives.

I think this is the result of anti-propaganda efforts after the election.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/827zqc/in_re...

/r/jailbait and a few related subreddits were closed way back in 2011.

And while they are less popular, there definitely are still subreddits dedicated to "legal aged women who look like very young teenagers wink wink" content, with rules that are entirely designed to argue the letter of the law so they don't get banned.