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They have banned content which was nearly impossible to properly moderate and could have, from a legal perspective, become a very big problem.
by debacle 14y ago
They have banned content which was nearly impossible to properly moderate and could have, from a legal perspective, become a very big problem.
- fab13n 14y agoThis was for legal matters, not for distastefulness. The same obligations fall on network operators, and wouldn't be cancelled by any net neutrality law.
- debacle 14y agoYes, we agree. I don't think anyone else would have looked at the facts and come to a different decision than what reddit did, and I'm sure they did not make the decision easily.
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- sammythemc 14y agoActually, this is untrue. The r/jailbait drama blew up when someone solicited underage pornography there, but at the end of the day it was banned for "threatening the structural integrity of reddit," ie the fallout from the Anderson Cooper story. Legality had little to do with it, just like you see with the ban on dox; it was banned for making the site look bad.