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Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission
Mark Wilson writes If you want to post naked pictures or videos of people on Reddit without their consent, you only have a couple of weeks to do so. As of March, the site is imposing a ban on content of an explicit nature that the subject has not given permission to be posted. The cleanup of the site comes hot on the heels of news from Google that explicit content will be banned from Blogger. It also comes in the wake of last year's Fappening which saw a glut of naked celebrity photos leaked online.
What's this mean for the gone wild boards... verified posters only?
Lucky that slashdot's commenting system is so ancient and crappy it doesn't have to worry about people uploading gifs or anything else that isn't ascii.
Until it tries to uphold it.
Bah! You kids today and your fancy pastebin websites. In my day we would have used uuencoded data pasted into a text field and we were happy to see the grainy image after half an hour!
If you believe that someone has submitted, without your permission, to reddit a link to a photograph, video, or digital image of you in a state of nudity or engaged in any act of sexual conduct, please contact us.
So, the only way to see if someone has "Posted Sexual Content Without Your Permission", is to make me (the permission holder) search through EVERY FUCKING PICTURE on Reddit.
Awesome!
bSarcasm = !bSarcasm;
I get the feeling Reddit is about to implode. Their new CEO Ellen Pao has a history of getting herself involved in sexual affairs with married co-workers and then filing sexual harassment lawsuits against her employers. That's how she makes her living, positioning herself to be "harassed" then suing over it. Her husband, who is gay, no kidding, is another lawsuit troll who sues his own employers and even his landlord over claims of racial discrimination, meanwhile he runs a hedge fund which is likely to be a Ponzi scheme and is under federal investigation.
This interesting power-couple is about to need money again. I give Reddit about six more months before she storms off and then hits them with a $50 million lawsuit for sexual harassment.
In this day and age don't participate in an act (whatever the act) which is being recorded if having that recording revealed in public could hurt you in some way? It's common sense. It doesn't have to be you in various states of undress in the middle of various sex acts, for some people a video of them out hunting or fishing could be damning. If you don't want others to see it, don't record it, don't let other participants record it and pray that there are no non-participants out there with a camera handy ;)
First we see the backlash over censorship and bad mods fuel the mass exodus to voat.co. Now they are taking away the porn? Are they trying to burn the site down?
Then you must think Reddit is a government entity.
It's not like you can't spend $30 a month for a hosting account or run a web server from your own broadband network
What's that you say, you don't have a legal department to protect you in the event that a victim of slut-shaming decides to sue you.
I feel your pain. not so much.
Reddit's decline started before the censorship of Gamergate. It started before the Something Awful forums invaded SRS and turned it into a joke. It's never was about gender wars. (although some of those events were symptomatic) It was never about politics. (although political vote warring and karma whoring added to the mess.)
Reddit's decline started the first time legal speech that no one liked was censored. It was an unpopular board. It was a popular decision to ban it despite it not violating rules. I'm not going to name the subreddit that was deleted because which sub it started with is irrelevant.Reddit administration banned a board, signaling that any sufficiently unpopular speech could be removed at will by administration. From that moment those seeking to remove various forms of speech started to work toward influencing admins.
Some people will applaud this action, saying that no one should have their private pictures posted without their consent. Some people will call this an issue of right to privacy. Those people are misguided.
When a forum starts to limit legal speech a slowly growing cancer of censorship is inevitable. And don't say, "slippery slope". This has happened over and over and over. It doesn't matter whether people should be posting such pictures. It doesn't matter how distasteful they are. It doesn't matter what intent the poster has. Or how distasteful the poster is. Or the reader. It happened at Digg. It has happened in certain churches. It has happened in Korea. It happened in Russia and China. "It's okay to ban this kind of speech" is never. Never true.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
My cawk will be 4ch only.
You mean the jailbait subs or the sub where the teacher was uploading upskirt pics of students?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Looks like somebody has read the non-publicly released FCC plan to regulate the Internet for "net neutrality"
Reddit, Slashdot, news (ie yes- news is censored all the time), video hosting, link sharing, and even online stores.
We've put up with this crap for way to long.
For one day only..back in 2000.
https://imgur.com/3gOniL8
IIRC it was an exploit in one of the tags.
I have to return some videotapes...
It also comes in the wake of last year's Fappening
Can we get a definition of that for old farts with a UNIX beard like me? I know there was a massive hack and sale of celebrity nude photos for Bitcoin or something. Is that what this refers to? What's a Fappening?
Yeah, I'm gonna Google it, but the editors could add a parenthetical explanation, or a link to Wikipedia, or something. I remember when Slashdot used to use built in links to everything2 - I wish they had transitioned over to Wikipedia so the clueless like me could be more easily informed.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
DMCA take down notice material as perhaps the person who took the pictures didn't give their permission for it to be used.
Otherwise legally why comply as it is not illegal to take nude pictures of most people without their permission in many contexts and to share/publish them.
Stupid fuckers at reddit .
Better yet, stop pretending your body is some special butterfly that will cause the sky to fall and dogs to make love to cats should somebody actually get a look at it. The whole body paranoia thing is a society wide neurosis. At best. You look very similar to everyone else. The more you take off, the more that's true.
I'd rather see someone dressed to the max than naked any day, I think probably because it actually tells me something about their self image at the time. It means nothing negative to me to see them naked, and frankly, not a whole lot positive. Meh. Truly.
Of course, then we have the motivational "gifts" provided by superstition, but I already mentioned neurosis, so...
wheres the new reddit clone startup ?
Well perhaps they deserve it.
You live a strange life, and care about such narrow things. Take some time off, go camping in the mountains, reconnect with yourself.
I take my stand on the proposition that the publication of nude and/or sexually explicit photographs without the consent of the subject is a form of rape.
This not art. This is not speech.
This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn
Free speech cannot survive in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Free speech has to mean something more than the adolescent's desire for instant sexual self-gratification.
In the form of an illicit photograph to masturbate by.
I am sick and tired of the geek playing the censorship card when anyone asks him to behave like an adult.
If you do a single thing to me without permission, then in a crisis I simply cannot allow myself to trust you. If in that crisis I have to execute someone to save a friend, your life will be in danger. Thus it is best to always ask permission! And with regards to permission, if I give you one of my internet passwords, you may consider that permission to use it. As an example, see http://allsup.co/friends/slashdot.org/msg-whyi.php and email me to ask what to put at the end of the URL so that the if(test()) { showpage(); } else die(horribly()); line in the PHP script will not commit computational suicide. Use the address super.secret.slashdot@allsup.co for this purpose, and include a URL that at least points to slashdot, preferably this article, or this comment as proof you
have read and understood this. You have my permission to try the passwords you find anywhere you like, since I've checked to my satisfaction that they no longer work.
John_Chalisque
lol~! try browsing at -1 sometime
Time to apply at reddit and do Ellen a favor!
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain
Or would you be fine with me standing in your living room shouting, "COCK AND BALLS, BIG FUCKING JUICY COCK AND BALLS!" 24/7?
Because you wouldn't. And it's a ridiculous example, but if you whine about private dominions and the human right to ignore decency, you should expect the ridiculous.
I don't use Reddit, but - how the H* is Reddit going to judge, evaluate, or confirm the pemission? I can post a picture of Julie Smathers naked. Is Reddit going to contact every person in the world name "Julie Smathers" to see if any of them gave their permission? And even if they did, how can they tell if she's the one in the picture? Or do I have to send an e-mail to with an attached signed autographed copy of the photo? This seems like a "call the cops" theory gone wacko.
If a site banned the sale of goods stolen from your home, would that be censorship or refusal to join in with the thieves?
Reddit is hemorrhaging cash. If they just implement a no-nudes blanket ban, that takes pressure off the moderation, which needs to be changed.
See the GamerGate cover-up and other bannings, shadowbans, etc. The place is dead to me if they're going to act like that.
Anyway, I'll be on a chan somewhere connected via .onion while idiot VCs and their SJW girlfriends in Silicon Valley is determined make their sites into an AOL-style hugboxs.
Feds to Reddit: "That's a nice website you have there..."
You know the rest.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
So who's responsible for pressuring these companies?
Marry female children.
Bible allows it (deuteronomy 22 28-29)
Pretty cool, I'm glad I get to watch reddit disappear like Dig did.
...for the ugliest post to Slashdot ever modded up "Insightful."
This is truly the finest example of the geek's sexual immaturity that I have ever been privileged to see.
The fundamental truth is that rape is not about sex, it is about power --- a man's dominance over the women in his world. --- and the geek's world is online.
Better yet, stop pretending your body is some special butterfly that will cause the sky to fall and dogs to make love to cats should somebody actually get a look at it.