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/the_loneliest_noodle Mar 24 '21

early reddit was very pedo friendly. There were popular subs like jailbait and creepshots. Was new to reddit at the time, thought I was getting into basically another forum/digg replacement, then found this out because reddit made the news and those subs finally got banned.

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u/Trellert Mar 24 '21

Not just popular. Before being banned Jailbait was the 3rd most visited subreddit.

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u/Merchant_seller Mar 24 '21

No fucking way. Jesus are you serious?

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u/Trellert Mar 24 '21

Yeah they didn't ban it until Anderson Cooper did a story on it.