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2d ago

Reddit bans over 100 subreddits, including r/porn, r/drugs, r/transgender_surgeries, r/rule34, r/boobs, r/IsElonDeadYet. EDIT: admin claims it was a "bug", most subs restored now

https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedSubs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1ii6qa1/rporn_rrule34_are_banned_tissue_paper_sales/

edit: Reddit admin says "this is a bug and has been reversed".

r/IsElonDeadYet is still banned though and r/whitepeopletwitter is still under a 72-hour temp ban for "glorifying violence or doxing" against Elon's DOGE crew.

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/r/theadamfriedlandshow being in this list is hilarious
- Adam was the bug that got everyone banned

"r/smalldickporn has been banned" Lmao, some people just can't catch a brake
- small dick problems

First they came for the Coomers
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Coomer
Then they came for the Monster Girls
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Monster Girl
Then they came for the Adam Friedland stans
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a center-left podcaster
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
- Except the bots.
  Oh my god.
  So many bots.
- Pee Wee Herman died for our sins
- This but unironically
  Let's not pretend that reddit is all of a sudden a defender of women's rights and a radfem-ran site

Too bad the mass banning of porn subs was a mistake. All digital porn should be banned and the gooners must retvrn to magazines hidden in the woods to reconnect to nature
- Tragic to see such goonerphonia on the left
- Going out back to make a withdrawal from the spank-bank my neighbor, Eddie, keeps in the whack-shack.
- All I have left are my Sears catalogs, the lingerie pages are a bit worn out but it still works
- Day 2109

Wtf? Admin says all of the bans were a bug
- Chtorrr comments on R/porn & R/rule34 are banned, tissue paper sales pulmmet! However, these are not the only bans, so what's going on?
  I'm surprised the comment allows replies.
  You guys really do think your users are stupid, don't you? A "bug" that only affected only porn subs and those that the fascists in power deem against their puritanical views? No, you just hit the "mass ban" button before you had your excuse to justify it in place.
  
  I can’t be arsed to find it now, but a while back there was an effort post in the subredditdrama sub about how a bunch of porn subreddits were being taken down due to “moderation” issues and at the same time porn subreddit moderation was getting consolidated under a small handful of power mods that were gatekeeping accounts promoting newer/less established OnlyFans and other such sites. Theory was that
  was purging the amateur nature of the NSFW side of the site and making it more “professional” adult content in order to be more palatable to investors.
  
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- "my account got hacked"
  
  “The controller got unplugged”
  
  "I was lagging"
- They always start with it as a "bug".
- oops, all the subs i accidentally banned except for a handful that coincidentally all seem to be related to hating on elon musk. peculiar.
- Literally 4891
- Yes hello, my account has been hacked

r/IsElonDeadYet not unbanned

Where did that bring you?

Seriously though, very funny to see goonicide, as concerning as it is that this was ordained by Elon feeling slightly threatened.
- How was this connected to Elon?
  
  He was going on and on about how one of the subs that gave names of his School Shooter 6 had committed a crime by posting their names and no other information (and people were cheering for bad things to happen to them)
  
  Serious answer: the guy running the Reddit lies twitter account, which has been doing "exposes" on Reddit, is most definitely followed by Musk. Yesterday he made a post showing just how bad the porn situation is on Reddit. Musk definitely saw that. Reddit probably got a phone call afterwards from Elon Musk. The same thing happened with white people twitter, Reddit lies did a compilation of all the death threats and fedposting on there, Elon probably saw it and told Reddit to get rid.

“Yeah banning porn completely annihilated Tumblr through a completely unforced error but surely that can’t happen to me!”
- At the same time the current situation is also unsustainable. You cannot rely on Reddit mods to properly control these communities for obvious reasons. There's no proper age verification, bots run rampant, that's a recipe for disaster and criminal activity (and I mean serious crimes like CSAM, human trafficking, money laundering, etc, not piracy or giving someone 20 bucks who then used the 20 to buy drugs) on drug and porn subreddits. But I don't think Reddit will ban it, they'll just cover it up better.

tinfoil hat on reddit admins got a threat from elon, so to cover up any mass hysteria from banning the problematic subs directly, they "accidentally" ban a bunch of random subs along with their actual targets.
Now everyones talking about r/boobs and whatever, they're restoring service whilst quietly keeping the anti musk subs banned without anyone giving a shit
- Almost certainly got threatened with a lawsuit or something. This isn't the first time they've done an "accidental" mass banning and then restored some of the subreddits but not the the ones they actually wanted to get rid of all along.

Lmao how will Reddit ever recover from this? Hint: They won't
- it was just the faulty automation again, we were able to restore most of the subs but not all (like the trans ones) for reasons unfortunately
  
  Yeah this smells like cover for banning trans subs
  
  again
  Yeah, didn't this just happen a couple months ago?
- They will. This doesn't meaningfully alter the product being offered.

The porn ban has been inevitable for years, but Reddit did nothing about it. There's no proper age verification for posting nude content, mod abuse, spam everywhere, extreme fetish subs allowed to run rampant 4chan style with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and Reddit has just swept it all under the rug. They definitely had this ban ready to go. I think it'll be reversed, because without porn Reddit site traffic will crash. They'll just try hide it better, pornographic content is already shadowbanned from all and popular and default search for years now, so more measures like that.
- I feel like this issue arises a lot more frequently then it should. Didnt Tumblr have similar problems years ago? How do major social media sites keep "accidentally" having almost 0 guardrails in place for nude content. Almost as if they dont want to fix the problem.
  
  A lot of the time, the problem is that when you start putting specific systems in place that moderate porn explicitly, you're liable for those systems failing; whereas no bespoke moderation at all lets you wash your hands and only remove things when it's a problem.
  
  Because it is deliberate. The whole appeal of posting porn on Reddit, is that unlike proper porn sites like onlyfans where you have to provide proper age verification such as an ID or drivers licence, which will then be linked to your real name, all you need to do is convince some Reddit mod that you're over 18 on a "verification post". It's a much lower barrier to entry, which is how Reddit gets people to post on there. The Reddit algorithm is also much easier to manipulate than other sites, so creators that want to make money can just spam their posts everywhere that link to a PayPal or paid onlyfans account in their bio. Extreme fetish content not allowed on mainstream sites is also just allowed to exist on Reddit. Such a system is ripe for abuse of course, but Reddit doesn't care because of the huge amount of traffic it generates for their website. They just try sweep it under the rug everytime. Look at what happened to Tumblr when they were forced to deal with the porn issue, the site was never the same afterwards.
- what extreme fetishes are you thinking of?
  
  I'm sure this was unintentional but this comment has this energy:
  
  hand-holding, headpats, overthrowing the government, walking along a beach

It looks like r/transgender_surgeries is back up at least.
- Reminder to back up tg surgery info

Porn subs should have stayed banned

This was surely on purpose. Some people at Reddit HQ wanted to lump in Elon's neo conservatism Christofascism with his evidently thin skin. Get porn banned along with anti Elon subs to draw the gooners to the anti Elon crowd.
Delightfully devilish

they banned r/HitlerRule34
- maybe this censorship isn't all bad
  
  TBH some of those subs should get banned for a variety of reasons. Some are ripe for abuse and others are problematic.

A new migration to lemmy?
- I am not looking forward to the gooners.
  
  What's wrong with Arsenal fans?
  Edit: Incidentally, I was looking through old photos and found that I'd apparently made up a kanji for "gooning" a long time ago as a joke
- Christ no, I don't want the predditors, gooners, and orbiters to infest the lemmyverse.
  
  Sadly, they already have their own instance
- It can be a blessing yet a curse.
- Not in the same way when the API wars were happening I think, but maybe.

They were ready to censor content to enhance profits. Then, for reasons unknown the trigger was pulled prematurely.
This process failure is further evidence of the presence of a mature process. The previous statement is, by itself, circular reasoning.

LFG I hope Elon forces people off the internet

Everyone move back to Digg, QUICK!

Posted it in another thread, but it looks like the bans are being undone.

This is how r/cth can still win

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