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> That's quite far from censoring but rather Reddit censoring itself.

While you're completely correct, and this case is exactly that, the end result is the same isn't it?

Not really, because reddit had a choice not to censor itself. The result would have been that /r/watchpeopledie would be not findable in German Google with safe search on, and that it would be blocked in all schools, and if you install a family blocker software at home.

Reddit really has a really hard to follow rule as to what content is or isn't allowed.

The point here is that the subreddit works fine almost everywhere in the world. Just if you try accessing it with a German IP Reddit voluntarily decided not to return content.

I was thinking more along the lines of what subreddits they still allow and what subreddits have been banned (or at least 'encouraged' to go private).

I'm not sure but I thought that Google doesn't show websites listed in the BPJM-Modul at all in Germany, even with safe search off. Does anyone know whether this is documented somewhere?

I’m not sure either, but I know that legally, they can show that stuff.

They can hardly argue legal compliance as a reason, when they go beyond what's legally required of them.

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