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Updated: 31 Mar 2020
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Elliot Rodger - Isla Vista Shooting - murders 6, injures 14 - 23 may 2014r/incels banned - November 7, 2017r/Braincels banned - September 30, 2019r/Thefappening banned - September 7, 2014r/Braincels quarantined - September 29, 2018James Holmes - Aurora mass shooting - murders 12, injures 70 - July 20, 2012Reddit updates bullying and harassment policy - September 30, 2019US Army issue warning about 'Joker' - 23 September, 2019Alek Minassian kills 10, 15 injured (Toronto van attack) - 23 April 2018Toronto van attacker police video released 27 September 2019Cloudflare stop protecting the Daily Stormerr/The_Donald quaratined - June 27, 2019incel.life is created - November 2017Reddit updates site-wide rules regarding violent content - October 26, 2017Reddit change policy against bullying and harassment - October 1, 2019Beginning of #GamerGate - August 2014r/Incel member posts to r/legaladvice 'general question about how rapists get caught' - October 2017Incel watchdog r/IncelTears is created - May 20, 2017Internet forum 'Incelocalypse' is created - February 7, 2018r/Incels is created - specific date unknownChristopher Harper-Mercer murders 9, injures 8 - October 1, 2015Sheldon Russell Bentley kills one man - July 31, 2016William Edward Atchison murders 2 - December 7, 2017Nikolas Cruz murders 17, injures 17 - February 14, 2018Scott Beierle murders 2, injures 5 - November 2, 2018Christopher Cleary arrested after Facebook post describing his mass murder plans - January 19, 2019Twitter permanently suspends Milo Yiannopoulos - July 19, 2016r/beatingwomen banned 'for violating the Reddit rules' - June 10, 2014Adrian Chen exposes identity of Redditor Violentacrez - October 12, 2012Reddit introduces anti-harassment policy - May 14, 2015SPLC publish 'the Alt-Right is Killing People' report - February 5, 2018Reddit publish survey results of over 15k Redditors - 'showed negative responses to comments have made people uncomfortable contributing or even recommending reddit to others' - May 15, 2015Reddit update privacy policy to address 'revenge porn' - March 10, 2015Reddit update policy to include 'no suggestive or sexual content featuring minors' - February 13, 2012r/jailbait banned - October 2011r/CreepShots shut down after one of its senior moderators is doxxed - October 10, 2012AMAgeddon begins - July 3, 2015Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally - August 11-12, 2017Heather Heyer murdered at 'Unite the Right' rallyr/Deepfakes banned - February 7, 2018'Predditors' Tumblr created (outing r/CreepShots Redditors) - September 29, 2012'Joker' releaseBabe (website) get incel.life taken down - February 6, 2018Babe (website) get internet forum Incelocalypse taken down - May 29, 2018Reddit updates its quarantine function - September 27, 2018Reddit update their content policy - introduce quarantining - August 6, 2015r/CoonTown and other hateful subreddits banned - August 1, 2015Change.org petition to ban r/Braincels - July 2018Tobias R kills 9, injures 5- February 20, 2020r/MGTOW quarantined - January 31, 2020Vice article published: "US Coast Guard Officer Facing Gun Charges Researched ‘How to Rid the U.S. of Jews,’ Court Docs Reveal" - January 31, 2020BBC release incel documentary - August 17, 2019r/IncelGraveyard banned - February 28, 2019r/IncelGraveyard is created - June 2018Incels.me banned - November 2018Reddit CEO Ellen Pao resigns - July 10, 2015Ellen Pao starts as Interim Reddit CEO - April 1, 2013Reddit's Director of Communications Victoria Taylor fired - July 2, 2015r/shortcels banned - March 25, 2020Redditors on r/shortcels gloat about COVID-19 UK lockdown - March 24, 2020New Statesman America publish article on r/shortcels gloating about COVID-19r/fatpeoplehate banned - June 10, 2015Anwar Said Driouich jailed for possessing an explosive substance and information useful for terrorism - March 27, 2020Alexander Stavropoulos attack a mother and baby - June 3, 2019
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