Last week I posted that Reddit was hosting a child rape subreddit and had been for 3 years. 3 years. It had not been banned even during the controversy over Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s editing of posts in /r/The_Donald. The day after my article, it was finally banned.
After three years of hosting /r/PedoWorld, Reddit banned it a day after my article. Click for full size.
Reddit, proudly hosting a forum for exchanging child rape images. For three years.
It was not possible to access the subreddit as it was private to members only. Nor would I have tried to access it as the public description was as set out right and I would not have wished to risk committing an offence by viewing it.
Whilst it is pleasing that Reddit acted unusually quickly after the media inquiry, it is regrettable that no action was taken in the preceding three years. Reddit clearly needs to raise its game on identifying and removing child abuse material.
I just saw this subreddit /r/DarkNetMarkets/ after some people were talking about it in an unrelated subreddit. A glance certainly seems to show it’s most likely being used to discuss illegal drug purchasing activities, such as “Recommend coke vendor with excellent stealth” or “How worried should John_’s past customers be?” because John_ was busted by law enforcement.
As far as I can tell it’s not quarantined like some of the ‘wrong think’ subreddits are and isn’t set to private either.
I didn’t use it so I don’t know what was going on there, but reddit has banned /r/altright today.
“This subreddit was banned due to a violation of our content policy, specifically, the proliferation of personal and confidential information.”
Did you see this? https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/5uaetq/censorship_reddit_introduces_a_new_feature_to/
“I feel like this is just getting ridiculous and reddit is introducing more and more ways to filter right leaning subs while propping up the left. At this point, I can see no reason to create this “feature” other than to silence conservatives and give leftists the entire front page. ESPECIALLY since this is now the default. Filtered subs include r/the_donald, but not r/politics, r/trumpgret, r/politicalhumor, etc.
Edit: Mods just informed me via a sticky that, yes, KiA is filtered out of r/popular. I’m reminded of a quote by Benjamin Franklin.
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.””
List of affected subs: https://archive.is/GqKce