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Maybe. Probably are a partial truth. Regulatory pressures to crack down on NSFW content of any kind are very real.
by paddw 3y ago
Maybe. Probably are a partial truth. Regulatory pressures to crack down on NSFW content of any kind are very real.
- ryandrake 3y agoIt would be nice if whenever someone blamed their actions on vague "regulatory concerns" they actually listed the specific law/code that they were concerned with. For example, in this case, what specific law makes API access to this content risky but not regular web-based access to the content.
- Mindwipe 3y ago> Maybe. Probably are a partial truth. Regulatory pressures to crack down on NSFW content of any kind are very real. Regulatory pressure to perform age verification is real. But Reddit already requires users to be logged in and their account to have gone to the website and clicked on an explicit toggle in order to access NSFW content. When (and sadly inevitably if) Reddit requires age verification to access adult content, then it will be on a per account basis - and hence the toggle would not be enabled without it. So at that point the status quo still fulfils the regulatory requirement the account has checked age. It is not clear at all to anyone who thinks about it for a second why third party clients would change anything here.