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I remember when there was that big leak of celebrity nudes (the Fappening) and the reddit CEO at the time, yishan, posted that they wouldn't take down any of th

by fuzxi 6y ago

I remember when there was that big leak of celebrity nudes (the Fappening) and the reddit CEO at the time, yishan, posted that they wouldn't take down any of them because "Every man is responsible for his own soul." Then the well-deserved backlash made him backpedal at supersonic speeds. Anyway, my point is that that incident wasn't even out of the norm for reddit administration. Their standard for objectionable content is based on whether something gets negative media attention. Spez is nothing new.

Dracophoenix 6y ago
While that's true, at some point, the rule changes went from reactive to to peremptory. Now one can be banned just for upvoting content that is considered "rule-breaking". The crime is no longer posting the wrong content, it's expressing the wrong thoughts/reactions. I wouldn't be surprised if, in the near future, reddit started ip-blocking users based on what sites they linked from or started using an Elo-based profile rating system to remove profiles or whole subreddits en masse.