lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad…

-manitcor

      • Bowen@lemmy.world
        591·
        2 years ago

        When people add you as a mod, you can still leave. He never did. That subreddit in particular was known to have the blessing of the reddit admins to operate and eventually made ‘subreddit of the month’. Then a news org picked up that reddit was hosting this content and then they shut it down.

        They were well aware of what was going on. Andrewsmith is right, there is some plausible deniability there, but with the everything else we know about Steve Huffman, I’m not so sure I can agree with his assessment that it was forced upon him.

        • Roboticide@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 years ago

          Andrewsmith is right,

          As he often is. That guy knows more about Reddit than Huffman does. Hope he moves to Lemmy.

        • MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world
          186·
          2 years ago

          He let Ghislain Maxwell mod a bunch of subs until she eventually went to jail. It was common knowledge that its was her account but no problem from the pedo reddit admins

          • Striker@lemmy.world
            103·
            2 years ago

            It was never proven that the account was hers and it was literally just users automatically claiming that account was Ghislaine Maxwell because that account stopped posting around the same time she got arrested. Nothing bugs me more than that myth being parroted as if it was proven fact.

      • kadu@lemmy.world
        471·
        2 years ago

        While it’s certainly better than actively moderating a community…

        Is being the admin of a website that actively hosts jailbait and required a massive media outrage to finally remove it that much better? I get free speech and all, but I mean, the subreddit straight up catalogued which pictures were “fap material” and encouraged people (including parents) to take candid photos of the children around them.

        A community like that wouldn’t last a millisecond in a server I host.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          It’s not like it was a small sub either, IIRC. I’m not going to google jailbait to find the stories, but it must’ve been a few hundred thousand subscribers I think. At a time when the big subs had a few mill at most.

        • democracy1984@lemmy.world
          88·
          2 years ago

          Even though it was ethically very bad, it was legal. And Reddit had a policy of not removing content, unless it was illegal or doxxing.

          The fact is that they wanted to follow the same principles as the government, and allow complete freedom of speech. And if you are following freedom of speech, the ethicality of content is irrelevant.

          Reddit never approved of r/jailbait. They simply allowed it.