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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.
free speech doesn't exist on reddit. Have a read about "shadowbans".
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
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.
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.
There's no free speech on reddit. They're no better than Facebook or Google.
Of course there's a way to verify permission for such photos. It's called a model release.
Tom Geller