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Re: Reddit takes a new direction

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Post by ghani »

DannoHung wrote: post #199
jquery wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> basically child pornography Nothing that got banned was "basically child pornography." That's why there is blood in the water.

It was a collection of subreddits for the purpose of eroticism focused on children. It wasn't child porn, but it's as close as you can come without actually getting arrested. You're full of shit if you're trying to tell me otherwise.

The subreddits are as close as you can get to being illegal, but I think there's still a large (or at least significant) difference between the two. My only basis for that is my gut reaction, but I think it was what jquery was getting at. Not that they're truly unrelated.

Re: Reddit takes a new direction

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Post by Karunamon »

ceol wrote: post #229
Karunamon wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The content posted to these subreddits was, for the most part, child pornography. Allow me to be blunt: Bullshit.

You never actually looked at any of the subreddits removed, did you?

In passing, anyways. I find the whole child modeling scene and anything around it to be just plain weird on a good day.

I saw plenty of creepy things, but I never saw anything that could be remotely classified as "child pornography".

Re: Reddit takes a new direction

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showerst wrote: post #21
alecco wrote: post #12

Reddit is changing. It's currently in a renewed and stronger Eternal September. Bastion subreddits like /r/AskScience and /r/Truereddit are reduced to junk and fads. The hope for the group of moderated subreddits (Republic of Reddit) didn't really take off, it's just a handful of submitters. The top voted comments on threads about censorship are mostly 1 to 3 months old users. And now reddit (had to) surrender to a d…

Remember, slippery slope is a fallacy. I think the admins are sending the right message - This subject is blanket banned because it's too hard to sort out the shades of gray, and it brings a unique risk to the community that other things (drugs, racism, etc) just don't. I agree that they'll be playing 'ban the sub' whack a mole, but that will happen to any UGC site of scale, the important thing is (ironically) not to…

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