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I was surprised at the lack of swastikas, curse words, and nsfw content on the canvas, but that may say more about me than anything else.

TheAdamAndChe 10y ago
There was some NSFW stuff early on. There was a communist flag on the left side, under which was the statement "bash the fash." He-Man had a rainbow in his mouth like he was giving it a blowjob for the longest time, and all the nsfw stuff suddenly disappeared at the end. I highly suspect that moderators and bots took over by the end and made it come together, and I bet it was a PR move to amplify a sense of community.
- rmccoy6435 10y ago
  Bots definitely did take over, and it's how communities left their images so preserved. A lot of subreddits had scripts they gave out to users to just run in the tab. I think this kind of ruined the joy of logging in after a few hours of being gone and seeing something completely different in an area.
- NoGravitas 10y ago
  Not sure how a communist flag (stayed on till the end, by the way) or "bash the fash" is NSFW. Unless your workplace is fascist, of course.
  - TheAdamAndChe 10y ago
    There are many corporations who find any form of violence NSFW, especially among places with overly sensitive PC culture.
najati83 10y ago
Yes, me too. Admins were fine with a hammer and a sickle and an LGBT flag, though. We all have biases, after all. ;P
- kjdndisneinj 10y ago
  I'm sorry, but are you actually comparing Nazi symbolism to the LGBT flag? This has to be sarcastic, no?
  - najati83 10y ago
    A swastika, an LGBT flag and a hammer and a sickle are all political symbols. I found it funny admins only banned one of them.
    - soundwave106 10y ago
      Of the three, the swastika internationally is the most problematic symbol as far as international law goes. It is banned outright except for narrow historical exceptions in several Western countries (eg France and Germany). Other countries may not have banned the symbol per se, but they may have "hate speech" type laws, and a swastikas used for this purpose may also fall afoul of that. The hammer and sickle is more comparable; it is indeed banned in a few (mostly post-Soviet) countries. But I've never heard of the hammer and sickle running into the same problems regarding hate speech laws, which was probably Reddit's focus here. Though politics are involved, the LGBT flag represents identity and is not very comparable to major political movements with dodgy human rights records, or a symbol with a history of being behind "hate speech".
      - rtx 10y ago
        A billion Hindus would disagree with you.
        soundwave106 10y ago
        Yes, it should be clarified we are talking about the Nazi swastika. Unfortunately in the West, the Nazi use of the swastika dominates the public perception of the symbol. (This is very unfortunate given the long historical tradition of the swastika in Asia and other cultures.) As far as I'm aware, legally, context matters significantly in places where the symbol is banned; eg the Nazi swastika is outlawed in Germany because it represents a banned political ideology, whereas a Hindu swastika is not.

TheAdamAndChe 10y ago

There was some NSFW stuff early on. There was a communist flag on the left side, under which was the statement "bash the fash." He-Man had a rainbow in his mouth like he was giving it a blowjob for the longest time, and all the nsfw stuff suddenly disappeared at the end. I highly suspect that moderators and bots took over by the end and made it come together, and I bet it was a PR move to amplify a sense of community.

rmccoy6435 10y ago
Bots definitely did take over, and it's how communities left their images so preserved. A lot of subreddits had scripts they gave out to users to just run in the tab. I think this kind of ruined the joy of logging in after a few hours of being gone and seeing something completely different in an area.
NoGravitas 10y ago
Not sure how a communist flag (stayed on till the end, by the way) or "bash the fash" is NSFW. Unless your workplace is fascist, of course.
- TheAdamAndChe 10y ago
  There are many corporations who find any form of violence NSFW, especially among places with overly sensitive PC culture.

najati83 10y ago

Yes, me too. Admins were fine with a hammer and a sickle and an LGBT flag, though. We all have biases, after all. ;P

kjdndisneinj 10y ago
I'm sorry, but are you actually comparing Nazi symbolism to the LGBT flag? This has to be sarcastic, no?
- najati83 10y ago
  A swastika, an LGBT flag and a hammer and a sickle are all political symbols. I found it funny admins only banned one of them.
  - soundwave106 10y ago
    Of the three, the swastika internationally is the most problematic symbol as far as international law goes. It is banned outright except for narrow historical exceptions in several Western countries (eg France and Germany). Other countries may not have banned the symbol per se, but they may have "hate speech" type laws, and a swastikas used for this purpose may also fall afoul of that. The hammer and sickle is more comparable; it is indeed banned in a few (mostly post-Soviet) countries. But I've never heard of the hammer and sickle running into the same problems regarding hate speech laws, which was probably Reddit's focus here. Though politics are involved, the LGBT flag represents identity and is not very comparable to major political movements with dodgy human rights records, or a symbol with a history of being behind "hate speech".
    - rtx 10y ago
      A billion Hindus would disagree with you.
      - soundwave106 10y ago
        Yes, it should be clarified we are talking about the Nazi swastika. Unfortunately in the West, the Nazi use of the swastika dominates the public perception of the symbol. (This is very unfortunate given the long historical tradition of the swastika in Asia and other cultures.) As far as I'm aware, legally, context matters significantly in places where the symbol is banned; eg the Nazi swastika is outlawed in Germany because it represents a banned political ideology, whereas a Hindu swastika is not.