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That old reddit was also a haven for near child porn and other sorts of immoral or illicit content. Reddit needed strong moderation to become a functioning business and probably for the good of society as a whole. Maybe their current approach to moderation is overzealous, but let's not look at "old reddit" through rose-colored glasses.

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There's a huge difference between banning jailbait and banning the Donald.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no real way to discuss The Donald in a politically neutral way so I think it is best left out of the conversation for the moment. There are plenty of less politically charged examples of Reddit's moderation or the lack thereof.

The subreddit was originally quarantined for threatening the lives of Oregon officials, no?

No, the antifa posters who coordinate violent attacks on Oregon officials thrive on reddit to this day.

Hahahahahha. Reddit was a haven for literal child porn and is still today a haven for "jailbait" content. God I hope the "waiting"/"grooming" subs that were for lewding over pics of under-18s got banned.

Reddit might have cleaned their act up a bit but it still a gross wild west.

...no.

Nope. Reddit has never developed/deployed the tools to clean anything up... today (literally) it's virtually guaranteed that someone on the site is trading child porn, someone else is arranging the sale of illegal narcotics, and someone else is selling sex work in a location it's not legal.

On an unrelated note, isn't spivak a gender?

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