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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. verified by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's this mean for the gone wild boards... verified posters only?

    1. Re: verified by countach74 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Reddits policy change seems much different than Google's. As a free market, private property type, wouldn't you agree that reddits policy change is moral in that it is an attempt to return property to its rightful owner?

  2. Crazy at the helm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. actually you could have images on slashdot.. by CrAlt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For one day only..back in 2000.

    https://imgur.com/3gOniL8

    IIRC it was an exploit in one of the tags.

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  4. Re: Not surprised by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When a forum starts to limit legal speech a slowly growing cancer of censorship is inevitable.

    1. Reddit cannot, in any way, stop you from expressing your opinion. The most they can do is refuse to facilitate said expression.

    2. I find it amusing that such a staunch proponent of True Free Speech would use such a tremendously wiggly, pro-oversight qualifier as legal In defining what they consider acceptable. Legal implies a level of trust in the state that is entirely at odds with the rest of your post.

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  5. Re:What part of "Consent" Don't You Understand? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > a form of rape

    Here comes the "everything is rape" bullshit again.

    > I am sick and tired of the geek

    And here we get to the core again: good old-fashioned nerd-bashing.