An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by ffffffg on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:36AM (#27820144)

There's a significant difference between removing a subreddits from /r/all and banning it from the site. Besides, you can go to /r/randomnsfw and pretty much only see pornographic subreddits. Or search for them on the subreddits search. They've not gone anywhere, and are still well catered to by the administration.

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Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by handoflixue on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:56AM (#27820331)

To show that the male gaze is MORE important than female speech, you have to show that there's actually a tradeoff happening. AWS hosting porn doesn't degrade their ability to also host important feminist content.

Why does the existence of porn subs degrade the value of feminist subs?

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Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by fffffffg on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:58AM (#27820347)

It's the double standard being applied.

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Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by criley2 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:43AM (#27820198)

You're being disingenuous. It's a massive move that will dramatically lower the traffic to the subreddits, and was also done to the far-right supremacist and abuse subreddits before they were finally closed. It's the largest "anti-male-gaze" move possible without total sitewide banning.

But you set yourself a trap with the "well catered to by the administration" because you've defined this situation such that "catered to" is the equivalent of "done literally everything but gone nuclear with a full ban".

So now I can easily point to the continued existence of outright neo-nazism, white supremacy, civil war idealism, violent right-wing rhetoric, terrorism support, and other radical examples of "normal conservative dialogue" on reddit and easily claim that neo-nazis terrorists are "well catered to by the administration" by virtue of the fact that they exist at all and are not banned.

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Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by fffffffg on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:58AM (#27820356)

If you search for a quarantined subreddit (i.e. one that is actually a step away from being banned) on the subreddit search, it won't show in the results.

If you search for a NSFW subreddit, it will show in the results. Porn subreddits are easily discoverable, and not even close to being banned.

(Try it yourself: https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=asshole&include_o... versus https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=911truth&include_... - you'll see it's not possible to find /r/911truth in the latter search.)

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