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Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission

Posted by samzenpus on from the permission-slip-or-get-out dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Reddit sure loves it's free speech. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    free speech doesn't exist on reddit. Have a read about "shadowbans".

  2. Jailbait by ArchieBunker · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean the jailbait subs or the sub where the teacher was uploading upskirt pics of students?

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  3. Re:Not surprised by Gr33nJ3ll0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Free Speech provision of the constitution covers government, not private, censorship. Further, you've never been guaranteed freedom from the consequences of said speech, like having it removed because it's unpopular.

  4. Re:Fappening? by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

    Here let me finish the rest of the cut-off quote:

    saw a glut of naked celebrity photos leaked online

    That's actually it. There's nothing more than that. The Fappening was the name given to the mass of nude celebrity photos posted online, by whoever originally posted the thread. The wording could have been better, but the full definition is actually in the summary.

  5. Re:Reddit sure loves it's free speech. by tsotha · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no free speech on reddit. They're no better than Facebook or Google.

  6. Re:What part of "Consent" Don't You Understand? by 91degrees · · Score: 1, Informative

    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.

    And I take my stand that this is a vile statement that devalues actual rape.

    This not art. This is not speech.

    Who is to define what is and isn't art and speech? You? Me?

    This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn

    Then call it these things. Stop trying to make it something it isn't, and admit you consider stopping these to be much more important than freedom of speech.

    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.

    No it can't. It also can't survive in a world of arbitrary rules about what is and isn't "fee speech". However, the adolescent's desire for instant self gratification is perfectly legitimate.

    I am sick and tired of the geek playing the censorship card when anyone asks him to behave like an adult.

    But people are advocating censorship, and narrowing what freedom of speech is in order to rationalise it as something other than censorship!

  7. Re:Reddit sure loves it's free speech. by tgeller · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course there's a way to verify permission for such photos. It's called a model release.

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    Tom Geller