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This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being “unmoderated”, but some were not. What are your thoughts?

Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.

  • db0
    97•14 hours ago

    Looks like reddit is using the momentum of starting sub bans as an opportunity to ban things that might land them in hot water legally or politically

    • Rule34, and anime porn is banned because r34 is based on existing copyrighted material (and so are the anime subs probably)
    • Drugs because of the “war of drugs”.
    • transgender_surgeries because the current US administration is profoundly transphobic.
    • @[email protected]English
      30•13 hours ago

      its not just anime porn. Multiple body part specific subs have been banned despite being actively moderated. I think it’s a poem ban plus any thing that might be a bad look to the New Admin

      • @[email protected]
        12•10 hours ago

        Yeah thousands of niche porn subs got banned gor being “unmoderated” over the past few years. I think reddit is slowly trying to reduce the amount of porn on the website to appear better as a company.

        • @jaybone
          5•9 hours ago

          They have been trying to become the new “Facebook but not for old people” for the last several years. Like they still want to be hip and appear somewhat niche, yet be mainstream enough to pull in users and advertisers and money. Spez seems to think you can still have it both ways. The extremely small (relatively speaking) amount of people who have left for Lemmy understand you can’t have it that way. (THIS SHIT AINT NO BURGER KING DAWG)

    • @[email protected]
      15•12 hours ago

      It’s almost like the free speech absolutists only really cared about allowing one specific type of speech.

    • @MothmanDelorian
      5•12 hours ago

      Reddit’s board has been fighting over whether to house porn subs for years now. Spez has been very vocal about how difficult that has been for reddit.

      • @jaybone
        5•9 hours ago

        I cry a five gallon bucket of tears for Spez and his difficulties every night before I sleep.

        • @MothmanDelorian
          1•8 hours ago

          I don’t either but anyone thinking there havent been attempts to axe porn on reddit at the top levels they would be mistaken.