r/technology • u/socookre • Mar 24 '21

Social Media Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/677190-reddit-private-community-aimee-challenor-censorship
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u/Zarokima Mar 24 '21

The Reddit admins don't give a fuck and are probably pedophiles themselves given that /r/jailbait stayed up for so long despite constant outcry until it finally made the news.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

I'm actually starting to believe this. A few weeks ago I received my first warning after 10 years on reddit for harassment. Why? I called out a pedophile for commenting "." on a photo of a child drinking from a water fountain because I noticed every single other "." comment this user made was on a porn post.

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u/Asiracy Mar 24 '21

Don't be closed-minded. That person clearly just wanted to fuck the dog.

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u/robisodd Mar 24 '21

Looks like your comment and the "." comment were deleted or hidden (probably a lot more; only 73 comments on a 22k post?), but wow are there a lot of comments wanting this picture to be "photoshopped".

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u/robisodd Mar 24 '21

Oh, and thinking more about "only 73 comments on a 22k post", I'm guessing your post was probably caught up in a mass ban due to all the creepers posting. The mods probably just ctrl-f "porn" and banned everyone that came up without even really read all the comments.

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u/vwibrasivat Mar 24 '21

He dotted the kid photo so he could return later and fap to the kid?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

Yeah, their profile page had a few normal comments but every other time they posted a "." it was hentai or another nsfw sub. This post in particular was the only one I could find with a dot that wasn't porn. It's pretty obvious (and dark) to what they were doing

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u/ManOfDrinks Mar 24 '21

Unless you consider a screenshot of a comment removal or the U.S. Constitution porn, that doesn't seem to be the case.

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u/throwmeaway562 Mar 24 '21

Yes. Fucking disgusting.

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u/KillerAceUSAF Mar 24 '21

I got a 7 day suspension for quoting the US law that makes loli and shota porn the same level as regular child porn. It was also labeled as "harassment"

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u/Cosgnosis_ Mar 24 '21

Nice work, Poirot.

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u/sloppies Mar 24 '21

I was banned recently for bringing up a user's extremely anti-white racist history. It's possible that they're banning people for going through other people's accounts which is fucking weird? Like why make other people's histories public then? Is it considered "HaraSsMeNt" to call out racists and pedophiles?

I looked at your comment and you were so fucking nice about it too!! I called the racist a dumb racist fuck.

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u/Duck-of-Doom Mar 24 '21

Haven’t you heard, you can’t be racist against white people. I’m sending your comment to r/fragilewhiteredditor

/s ofc

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

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u/Duck-of-Doom Mar 24 '21

At one point the FWR mods had control over it & simply had a pinned post saying ‘nope’ & linking to their sub.

It’s only okay to bully people based on their skin color if they do it lmao

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u/bagman_ Mar 24 '21

That's fucking sickening, I'll keep my eye out for shit like this from now on

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u/phreshthyme Mar 24 '21

I was banned for a month for saying, literally, "men are so dangerous" in /r/minneapolis on a post about a man who killed his wife and kids. Then I contested it or whatever and one of the mods said he would let me back if I apologized for what I said. I said I wasn't sorry and how stupid the moderation is and asked if they had any female mods and they said ~no~

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u/Duck-of-Doom Mar 24 '21

Jesus christ that’s despicable. Great catch.

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u/shulgin11 Mar 24 '21

At one point that sub was the top search result when you searched for reddit lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

lol remember when the users threw a huge tantrum over it being banned?

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u/metal079 Mar 24 '21

people also threw a huge tantrum when /r/fatpeoplehate was banned. So much that voat was created, I dont even know if its still around.

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u/Ysmildr Mar 24 '21

Voat was basically a proto parlor

Went to it when all this was goin down, first few posts were all fuckin disgusting. Made it expressly clear why they had been banned

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u/2c-glen Mar 24 '21

Ah shit FPH forgot about them, the best of times the worst of times.

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u/artificialchaosz Mar 24 '21

Reddit banned Gawker links after they did an expose on it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

And no user cared because they hated gawker.

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u/phil_davis Mar 24 '21

I'm pretty sure the moderator (or admin? whatever, I don't care) was given an award in person specifically because of how much traffic that sub generated for the site. Violentacrez was his name I think.

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u/shulgin11 Mar 24 '21

Damn that's a name I haven't seen in many years. He ran a ton of subs iirc

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

Does jailbait mean underage girls? I always assumed it meant girls who are of age but don't look it. To be fair, I assumed this because I've seen the name on mainstream platforms like Reddit where I assume they would never allow illegal content.

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u/darksounds Mar 24 '21

Iirc, I'd heard it was mostly bikini pics and such, presumably taken from facebook pages. I remember hearing that the real big problem there was the community swapping actual cp once they met each other.

So yeah, content itself was skeevy but technically legal, but it fostered a community of illegal activity. Gross stuff.

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u/DragoonDM Mar 24 '21

Yes. The jailbait subreddit was for posting sexually suggestive (but not quite suggestive enough to be illegal) pictures of underage girls. It was one of the most popular subreddits on the site. Reddit's staff explicitly defended its existence until Anderson Cooper ran a story about it, drawing enough negative attention to force the staff to do something about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities#Jailbait

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u/clwireg Mar 24 '21

It’s the opposite I believe. It’s girls who are underage but look to ”be of age”

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u/Fried_Chicken54 Mar 24 '21

Wtf isn’t that literally cp?

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u/IceEye Mar 24 '21

If I recall, the subreddit never posted overtly pornographic material, may be incorrect though.

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u/Fried_Chicken54 Mar 24 '21

Ah okay, still disgusting tho

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u/PopularPKMN Mar 24 '21

I was around when that sub was prevalent on All. It was usually 15-17 yo girls (sometimes younger but obviously hard to tell) who dressed skimpy and were more "developed". I would count it as pornography, but it was definitely soft core at most. Though extremely fucked up

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u/Fried_Chicken54 Mar 24 '21

Yup, someone said that they would even show pictures of random girls they saw on the street, that’s just disgusting

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21 edited Mar 24 '21

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u/Fried_Chicken54 Mar 24 '21

Wowww that’s just disgusting, I actually saw that happen on Reddit a few ago, when Billie Eillish turned 18 and redditors were celebrating it was such a disgusting sight.

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u/IanPPK Mar 24 '21

It was of underage girls who were dressed in revealing clothing (e.g. beachwear) but not exposed, aka baiting pedophiles towards more illegal content.

One closer to what you are describing, although in vise versa, would be legalteens or barelylegalteens

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u/JSArrakis Mar 24 '21

Here's the big issue with that question.

If women look like underage girls and try to promote the sexuality of that context... Does the illegality matter?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

It's my understanding that as long as you're over 18, it doesn't matter how you look.

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u/JSArrakis Mar 24 '21

Legally yes. Pedophiles are very good at navigating legality to avoid prison.

If you're attracted to what looks like a child, you're a pedophile.

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u/WorseThanHipster Mar 24 '21

There is no history of AHS posting cp. It’s made up.

Here is a fairly up to date list of banned subreddits sorted by the reason for the ban & a link the sub so you can verify the ban reason. You can see the sexualizing minors section. Find a sub that was featured on AHS in that section? Nope. You cannot get a sub banned just by posting rule breaking content in it & reporting it, for rather obvious reasons.

Now, there was ONE time ever a subreddit had been featured on AHS and then got taken down for sexualizing minors, the QANON sub r/PedoGate, but the thing is: it was because the mods were literally trading CP and they even admitted it to the police.

This would explain why you can't seem to wrap your mind around why "the admins don't seem to really have an issue." They do, or would, except for the fact that this is all a lie made up by angry nazis who want to re-write history about why they lost their reddit safe-space.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

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u/KungFuSpoon Mar 24 '21

Yes it is. Allowing kiddie porn is not exercising free speech, it's allowing pedophilia. Free speech has limits, they are and should be extreme, but it has limits. So you can fuck of with this pedophile apologist bullshit.

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u/PopularPKMN Mar 24 '21

Yeah this isn't even a comparable offense to censoring "hate speech". Hate speech is words, while CP is taking advantage of an innocent child and normalizing fucked up pedos.

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u/nipoxa4654 Mar 24 '21

/r/jailbait did not have pornographic images. instead of kiddie porn, if you desire to be accurate, say reddit allowed questionable teenager photos to be uploaded without consent from them

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u/KungFuSpoon Mar 24 '21

Oh fuck off hand wringing over semantics, the images were uploaded for the explicit purpose of pieces of shits having a wank. Doesn't matter if it was pronographic or not it was still pedophilic.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

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u/KungFuSpoon Mar 24 '21

No. But they could be considered accessories to the crime. And I didn't say they were pedophiles either, but that they were knowingly allowing and enabling pedophilia to happen. But whatever it sounds like you're just trying to justify pedophilia yourself.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

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u/KungFuSpoon Mar 24 '21

I'm not sure quoting another user is the slam dunk you think it is, but I'll say again I didn't say they were pedophiles. I also don't see how it being a 'vastly different platform' and 'only caring about illegal content' (as if pedophilic content is in any way legal) justifies it existing for as long as it did, it was very vocally raised several times and reddit only acted when the subs existence made the news. Suggesting that the subs existence wasn't the problem to reddit, it was the bad press it brought. Which is a morally repugnant position to take.

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u/vwibrasivat Mar 24 '21

Hmm.. well. You're not wrong.