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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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[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 23 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Future_Honkey@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Pee Wee Herman died for our sins

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 hours ago

It is 2025, we should call them Pee Wee Theirperson.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 121 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

/r/theadamfriedlandshow being in this list is hilarious

[–] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Adam was the bug that got everyone banned

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 53 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 16 points 11 hours ago

Tragic to see such goonerphonia on the left deeper-sadness

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 23 points 14 hours ago

Going out back to make a withdrawal from the spank-bank my neighbor, Eddie, keeps in the whack-shack.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago
[–] nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 14 hours ago

All I have left are my Sears catalogs, the lingerie pages are a bit worn out but it still works

[–] gofer300@hexbear.net 101 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 67 points 17 hours ago

kelly small dick problems

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 65 points 17 hours ago

r/IsElonDeadYet not unbanned amogus

[–] moondog@hexbear.net 70 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (6 children)

Wtf? Admin says all of the bans were a bug

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago

oops, all the subs i accidentally banned except for a handful that coincidentally all seem to be related to hating on elon musk. peculiar.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 78 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 62 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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 reddit-logo 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.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 32 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Honestly all of the mods of the porn subreddits should have been cleaned out/purged years ago, have Reddit admins take over, and implement actual age verification systems for NSFW content creators. But Reddit won't do that because it will tank traffic and cost money. So we're stuck with the current situation.

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[–] AlephNull@hexbear.net 59 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] buh@hexbear.net 35 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

“The controller got unplugged”

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 34 points 17 hours ago

"It was actually my little brother playing"

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 25 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

"I was lagging"

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 52 points 17 hours ago

They always start with it as a "bug".

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 33 points 17 hours ago

Literally 4891

[–] ICEMAN@hexbear.net 11 points 14 hours ago

Yes hello, my account has been hacked

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 17 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] VapeNoir@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago

This is how r/cth can still win

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 51 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

“Yeah banning porn completely annihilated Tumblr through a completely unforced error but surely that can’t happen to me!”

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 34 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 62 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Where did that bring you? back-to-me volcel-judge

Seriously though, very funny to see goonicide, as concerning as it is that this was ordained by Elon feeling slightly threatened.

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[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 20 points 15 hours ago

Porn subs should have stayed banned

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 48 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Lmao how will Reddit ever recover from this? Hint: They won't

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 40 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah this smells like cover for banning trans subs

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[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 39 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] gwysibo@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

what extreme fetishes are you thinking of?

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 12 points 11 hours ago

I'm sure this was unintentional but this comment has this energy:

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 8 points 11 hours ago

hand-holding, headpats, overthrowing the government, walking along a beach

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You're actually not liable for those systems failing in the legal sense. As an "interactive service provider", you are protected under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, even if you are engaged in some moderation of the third-party content you are hosting. It also means that, as the provider, you have the right to "restrict access" to any content you deem objectionable. However, they have to balance this with the fact that they must also ensure that they do not distribute pornographic material to anyone under the age of 18. How they do that, however, isn't prescribed by the law I think, and so it's on a "good faith effort" kind of footing.

No one likes Section 230. Progressives think that it allows for a site to be absolved of the crime of harboring dangerous people (Nazis). Conservatives believe that it allows for a site to harbor people spreading propaganda against traditional values and suppressing "whiteness" or whatever. Following 2016 and Covid, broadly, both political spectrums believe that the provision gives platforms no incentive to crackdown on "misinformation", or to partake in the curation of misinformation unrestricted.

The reality is, Section 230 has been holding the door closed for more aggressive policing of speech and expression online since 1994. Everyone hates it, but no one wants to get rid of it because getting rid of it cuts all parties in the process.

Rhetoric around removing Section 230 is often what drives sites to tighten their controls. Every time it comes up in the media, it is because there is something going on at the federal level. This could be a signal that the feds are going to start this "conversation" up again, but this time through the guise of more explicitly defining what counts as "pornographic" content (to include Trans content of any kind), or to attempt to mandate a federal porn ID system like they do in states across the country. Both of these things might be happening at the same time. I'm pretty sure Reddit doesn't require you to enter state ID information into their site to access it in those states, so somehow they're running just outside the bounds of those ID laws.

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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 37 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It looks like r/transgender_surgeries is back up at least.

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 24 points 17 hours ago

Reminder to back up tg surgery info

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