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Meanwhile, reddit continues to house: 1. Full Movies On YouTube, a subreddit dedicated to streaming copyrighted films, 2. Plundered Pics, where stolen nudes f
by georgespencer 12y ago
Meanwhile, reddit continues to house:
1. Full Movies On YouTube, a subreddit dedicated to streaming copyrighted films,
2. Plundered Pics, where stolen nudes from phones are passed around,
3. Self Harm Pics, where people post photos of themselves self harming,
4. Cute Female Corpses, which is exactly what it sounds like,
5. Sexy Abortions, which is photos of abortions,
6. Watch People Die, which is a subreddit dedicated to videos of people being killed,
7. Pics of Dead Kids, which is again what it sounds like.
> While current US law does not prohibit linking to stolen materials, we deplore the theft of these images and we do not condone their widespread distribution.
The images in question were obtained illegally, and it was deplorable that they were circulated so widely. But in this instance reddit seems to have simply cowed to the pressure of publicity and dressed it up as a morality thing.
I'm glad they banned the subreddits distributing the photos, but I wish they'd just be honest about it and ban other highly questionable subreddits too.
(Oh and they should fucking engage with people who comment: most of their blog posts and self.posts read like celebrity AMAs gone wrong, where they ignore the incredibly popular dissenting voices.)