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edit: Reddit admin says "this is a bug and has been reversed".

r/IsElonDeadYet is still banned though and r/whitepeopletwitter is still under a 72-hour temp ban for "glorifying violence or doxing" against Elon's DOGE crew.

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[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 124 points 1 year ago (2 children)

/r/theadamfriedlandshow being in this list is hilarious

[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Adam was the bug that got everyone banned

[–] gofer300@hexbear.net 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"r/smalldickporn has been banned" Lmao, some people just can't catch a brake

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

kelly small dick problems

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

r/IsElonDeadYet not unbanned amogus

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where did that bring you? back-to-me volcel-judge

Seriously though, very funny to see goonicide, as concerning as it is that this was ordained by Elon feeling slightly threatened.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Too bad the mass banning of porn subs was a mistake. All digital porn should be banned and the gooners must retvrn to magazines hidden in the woods to reconnect to nature

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 25 points 1 year ago

Going out back to make a withdrawal from the spank-bank my neighbor, Eddie, keeps in the whack-shack.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Tragic to see such goonerphonia on the left deeper-sadness

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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Yeah banning porn completely annihilated Tumblr through a completely unforced error but surely that can’t happen to me!”

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the same time the current situation is also unsustainable. You cannot rely on Reddit mods to properly control these communities for obvious reasons. There's no proper age verification, bots run rampant, that's a recipe for disaster and criminal activity (and I mean serious crimes like CSAM, human trafficking, money laundering, etc, not piracy or giving someone 20 bucks who then used the 20 to buy drugs) on drug and porn subreddits. But I don't think Reddit will ban it, they'll just cover it up better.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao how will Reddit ever recover from this? Hint: They won't

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

it was just the faulty automation again, we were able to restore most of the subs but not all (like the trans ones) for reasons unfortunately

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah this smells like cover for banning trans subs

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago

They say it's undone but still wouldn't be shocked if some trans ones are left banned

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The porn ban has been inevitable for years, but Reddit did nothing about it. There's no proper age verification for posting nude content, mod abuse, spam everywhere, extreme fetish subs allowed to run rampant 4chan style with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and Reddit has just swept it all under the rug. They definitely had this ban ready to go. I think it'll be reversed, because without porn Reddit site traffic will crash. They'll just try hide it better, pornographic content is already shadowbanned from all and popular and default search for years now, so more measures like that.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like this issue arises a lot more frequently then it should. Didnt Tumblr have similar problems years ago? How do major social media sites keep "accidentally" having almost 0 guardrails in place for nude content. Almost as if they dont want to fix the problem.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A lot of the time, the problem is that when you start putting specific systems in place that moderate porn explicitly, you're liable for those systems failing; whereas no bespoke moderation at all lets you wash your hands and only remove things when it's a problem.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're actually not liable for those systems failing in the legal sense. As an "interactive service provider", you are protected under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, even if you are engaged in some moderation of the third-party content you are hosting. It also means that, as the provider, you have the right to "restrict access" to any content you deem objectionable. However, they have to balance this with the fact that they must also ensure that they do not distribute pornographic material to anyone under the age of 18. How they do that, however, isn't prescribed by the law I think, and so it's on a "good faith effort" kind of footing.

No one likes Section 230. Progressives think that it allows for a site to be absolved of the crime of harboring dangerous people (Nazis). Conservatives believe that it allows for a site to harbor people spreading propaganda against traditional values and suppressing "whiteness" or whatever. Following 2016 and Covid, broadly, both political spectrums believe that the provision gives platforms no incentive to crackdown on "misinformation", or to partake in the curation of misinformation unrestricted.

The reality is, Section 230 has been holding the door closed for more aggressive policing of speech and expression online since 1994. Everyone hates it, but no one wants to get rid of it because getting rid of it cuts all parties in the process.

Rhetoric around removing Section 230 is often what drives sites to tighten their controls. Every time it comes up in the media, it is because there is something going on at the federal level. This could be a signal that the feds are going to start this "conversation" up again, but this time through the guise of more explicitly defining what counts as "pornographic" content (to include Trans content of any kind), or to attempt to mandate a federal porn ID system like they do in states across the country. Both of these things might be happening at the same time. I'm pretty sure Reddit doesn't require you to enter state ID information into their site to access it in those states, so somehow they're running just outside the bounds of those ID laws.

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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like r/transgender_surgeries is back up at least.

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Reminder to back up tg surgery info

[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

First they came for the Coomers

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Coomer


Then they came for the Monster Girls

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Monster Girl


Then they came for the Adam Friedland stans

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a center-left podcaster


Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they banned r/HitlerRule34 ooooooooooooooh

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

maybe this censorship isn't all bad

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not looking forward to the gooners.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What's wrong with Arsenal fans?

Edit: Incidentally, I was looking through old photos and found that I'd apparently made up a kanji for "gooning" a long time ago as a joke

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Christ no, I don't want the predditors, gooners, and orbiters to infest the lemmyverse.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sadly, they already have their own instance

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It can be a blessing yet a curse.

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[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 20 points 1 year ago

Porn subs should have stayed banned

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

They were ready to censor content to enhance profits. Then, for reasons unknown the trigger was pulled prematurely.

This process failure is further evidence of the presence of a mature process. The previous statement is, by itself, circular reasoning.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

tinfoil hat on reddit admins got a threat from elon, so to cover up any mass hysteria from banning the problematic subs directly, they "accidentally" ban a bunch of random subs along with their actual targets.

Now everyones talking about r/boobs and whatever, they're restoring service whilst quietly keeping the anti musk subs banned without anyone giving a shit

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

This was surely on purpose. Some people at Reddit HQ wanted to lump in Elon's neo conservatism Christofascism with his evidently thin skin. Get porn banned along with anti Elon subs to draw the gooners to the anti Elon crowd.

Delightfully devilish

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