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Fuck Reddit
I love how people go out of their way to dismiss a massive online userbase as a bunch of meme-whoring idiots without actually taking the time to examine any other aspect of the community.
For example, did you know that advice animals, rage comics, and demotivationals are all mostly contained within their own subreddits? And did you know that you can also unsubscribe from them, ignoring them completely in favor of the rest of the site, which usually has genuinely interesting content?
Shocking, I know.
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Oh, hey.
I wasn't dismissing them for the memes; I was condemning them for facilitating the distribution of CP.
Protip: Don't assume what isn't being said
^
Also MRA, racism, bigotry, etc
They did that? Huh.
I've honestly never looked at any of the subreddits that would contain that sort of thing, but that is genuinely disturbing.
The subreddits I subscribe to are: Funny, Gaming, Videos, Technology, Science, AskScience, MagicTCG, GamerNews, GameMusic, Nintendo, and AnimeMusic, and I've never seen anything more than mildly NSFW, and certainly not anything offensive or illegal.
^^ Well, that stuff, too, but it's the CP that drove me to report them to the FBI, so that sticks out chiefly.
^ Looks like you weren't around for #redditbomb.
I still can't quite forgive them even though they got rid of it, because I'm still pretty sure they're just sorry they got caught and chastised, and did it only to save face.
Ah, so there was a 4chan raid or something?
Ahem.
They were deleted, but the fact that they were not only fully aware of it, but had to be pushed into reluctantly deleting them is nothing short of sick.
^^^Something Awful, actually.
And note that SA wasn't responsible for the CP being there, but for getting the admins to stop going "but banning it would be a violation of free speech! T_T"
"We… do not make this policy change lightly, or without careful deliberation," said the head of one of the biggest websites on the planet, on preventing their users from distributing child pornography.
http://gawker.com/5884619/reddit-reluctantly-bans-child-porn
I've been ninja'd already, but what happened is basically: for years, Reddit has hosted some very, very disturbing subreddits, and held far too close a friendship with known CP advocate violentacrez, while, like INUH said, not doing shit about it because blah blah free fucking speech. They only did something about it once SA condemned them for it and made it more public that this was happening.
Again, I point out that people seem to ignore that free speech is limited by the fact that other people exist.
Jesus Christ, that is horrible.
Can anyone here recommend an alternative? I still want to be able to browse various web content, but I honestly don't want to give these guys any more traffic.
Remember, violentacrez, this person who had been in close contact with many of the higher ups for years, admitted to having sex with his niece. And the only reason they closed r/jailbait in the first place is because Anderson Cooper dedicated a segment of his show to it. Not because it, you know, sexualized minors. But because it would get them bad PR.
I understand that, aside from something like 3/4 of the userbase spontaneously deciding to build a nuclear bomb (or, y'know, demonstrating that the higher-ups knew about the distribution of child pornography and did nothing), there isn't much of a way for Reddit to ever get permanently shut down. See: one of the biggest websites on the planet.
^ I hear that FARK is a great and super fun website! You should try it out!
The weird thing is, they're hosted by Amazon and blatantly defy Amazon's hosting TOS. So I don't understand why they survived #redditbomb long enough to put in the ban, given that Amazon was one of the groups SA was reporting them to.
Oh, Jesus. Didn't even know that part.
Money respects little that gets in the way of profit.
So, incest AND pedophilia. How is this guy not arrested yet?
What people seem to forget about the First Amendment is that it gives you the right to speak and nothing else. It doesn't mean you have the right to harm people with it.
There's no way to prove he did it. All he did was post about it on a subforum in which child sexualization is acceptable and he is treated as a person. But there's no way to prove it.
Exactly what I was getting at, yeah.
^^^ Well, there's ^ that. Plus, I'd presume he told her not to talk if she valued her safety, or something.
:< It would be really nice if r/nosleep at least got a separate forum. That place has some good horror
God forbid humans be treated like humans.
Maybe badly worded, but those who sexualize children certainly don't treat them as human.
Well, I don't mean to say that it's good to sexualize children, and certainly if he's done anything harmful then he should be held accountable for it/receive the appropriate legal repercussions/etc.
It's just that I don't like it much when people are treated like... not people because they are presumed to be guilty of something. Or for that matter even if they are guilty of something. It's just not a very good attitude to promote, and tends to hurt a lot of people who actually aren't guilty of anything.
blah blah blah demonizing people and not actions is wrong blah blah blah regardless of him being an asshole he's still a human asshole and you can't simply make void his humanity regardless of how much you dislike him blah blah blah maturity blah blah blah