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Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs (lemmy.intai.tech)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad....

-manitcor

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

While it's certainly better than actively moderating a community...

Is being the admin of a website that actively hosts jailbait and required a massive media outrage to finally remove it that much better? I get free speech and all, but I mean, the subreddit straight up catalogued which pictures were "fap material" and encouraged people (including parents) to take candid photos of the children around them.

A community like that wouldn't last a millisecond in a server I host.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's not like it was a small sub either, IIRC. I'm not going to google jailbait to find the stories, but it must've been a few hundred thousand subscribers I think. At a time when the big subs had a few mill at most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even though it was ethically very bad, it was legal. And Reddit had a policy of not removing content, unless it was illegal or doxxing.

The fact is that they wanted to follow the same principles as the government, and allow complete freedom of speech. And if you are following freedom of speech, the ethicality of content is irrelevant.

Reddit never approved of r/jailbait. They simply allowed it.