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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.
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.
The alternative would be that nobody is allowed to post ANYTHING until someone has verified that it is either (1) not nudity/pornography, or else (2) that it comes accompanied with some kind of proof of permission.
-Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
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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.
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
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...
You haven't lived until you've seen a centerfold spread out over six feet of multiple strips of punched paper tape. :/
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
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...
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.
Its people's reaction to seeing naked pictures of you that are the problem. You can get fired, disqualified from jobs, shunned, and all around your life can become a living hell.
If you get beat up in a alley, the damage (aside for the psychological damage from the event itself) might go away once the wounds heal. If you're a teacher and students find pictures of you? You potentially can kiss your career (or at least your next promotion) good bye.
And its one thing if the person allowed the picture to be taken (though even then, but whatever), but a lot of people abuse of positions of trust, and a lot of those pictures are taken without consent. There's a LOT of assholes out there.
I don't have a problem with being seen naked. Society has a problem with seeing me naked.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
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.
Back in my day, we had to look at actual naked folk.
rewriting history since 2109
and a lot of those pictures are taken without consent.
What consent? I find the vast minority are pictures taken without consent. The majority are:
a) In public where there's no right to privacy and thus no consent (e.g. passed out on the sidewalk after a hell of a fun night)
b) In private due to own stupidity (e.g. Naked selfie sent over the internet, or sent to third party).
c) With consent withdrawn at a later date and then complaining about being unable to reverse the Streisand Effect (i.e. amateur porn from ages ago, or that picture you took 10 years ago you wish you didn't).
The problem is not so much a lack of consent, but that people will openly consent to waaay too much without thought about consequences and ultimately with little recourse when it all goes wrong. Yes this is blaming the victim, and you are right that there are plenty of assholes out there that prey on these kinds of victims, but as a society we are beginning to show an unrealistic expectation of privacy, as the media* and the Streisand effect shows over and over again.
*Side note I always laugh at the people who come out of the courts and then assault a news camera man because they think they have the right to privacy walking down a public street, only to end up right back in court again.
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.
Weird shit.