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 are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
This morning I just casually checked “ask reddit after dark” sort of a fun sex community like Lemmy “ask lemmy nsfw”. Was surprised that reddit banned that community. I understand the issues they are having with free speech and even trans stuff based on the new Executive Orders of the Trump administration - but I don’t get it with porn. How is narrative, pics, or videos of porn related stuff an issue?
Go study history. Look up something called “McCarthyism”.
Don’t like your neighbors house color? He’s a communist and should be banned!
But…red houses don’t mean he’s a…
I SAID BANNED!!! YOU’RE BANNED TOO, YOU DISAGREEING COMMUNIST!!!
And as long as the controling crowd is mindlessly agreeing with you, it doesn’t need to make sense, or be logical. That’s McCarthyism in a nutshell.
And the best part is, Americans are dumb, don’t learn from history, and don’t see the inevitable happening right now before them. So you can ban anything. Books. Tv shows. Foods. News. Clouds. Yes, clouds. As in the puffy white things in the sky. Banned. I said it doesn’t need to make sense, didn’t I?
All them red states have made it illegal to visit pornhub etc… without providing I.d. you know just how meth isn’t a thing now that you have to show i.d. to get cold medicine. Shit gonna be real weird round here if this course stays.
Good point that those NOT in an affected state DON’T realize. For example if you are in Florida there is no more Pornhub, Xhamster, etc. Unless of course you are dumb enough to submit a picture ID to those sites for verification. If you add to that social media purges of porn then those affected are basically in a no porn environment. Of course some would make the argument that it’s a good thing. But these are people not hurting anyone. They want to see some porn. What’s the big deal?
It doesn’t effect them currently but it will.