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Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits (old.reddit.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37090761

This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being "unmoderated", but some were not. What are your thoughts?

Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries is banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Ah the tumblr guide for how to kill your community.

Jokes aside that's very sad and very worrying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like it was a bug. Because they're still up.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It looks like a lot of the subs mentioned in that post are back already, including the ones mentioned in the post tile. While i completely agree that reddit is a shitstain, this may have been a bug?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where would one go if this place turns int reddit 2?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lenny, then leooy, then leppy etc

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Wow... is everything aligned... are there USA laws pushing this or something? Despicable pieces of shit

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

They'll reverse the X ban any second now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Just checked and all these supposedly "banned" subs are up and running.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Good. Let's have people come here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

/r/rule34 is banned, meanwhile /r/guro is still up. Wtf is wrong with reddit? That's the one sub I actually think should be banned, why ban the rule34?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about neither of them should be banned. Fuck this puritan BS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you know what /r/guro is? It's sexualized gore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's art. It's not real, and it's not hurting anybody in real life. We shouldn't ban things because they make you uncomfortable, we ban them when they harm actual people.

Edit: this is in no way an endorsement of that particular fetish. I personally think it's sick and disgusting. But it's not my place to tell someone else not to enjoy it if nobody was harmed in its production.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes it's awesome and sexy. Don't be a weenie.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I feel like this is the perfect time for the return of a certain Fawkcian group.

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