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Sure, but I'm not actually calling for heavy-handed censorship of HD-DVD master keys.
Look at the number of people in this thread alone that keep pointing to other subreddits and saying, "look, look at this horrible thing over here, why won't you do something about *that*?" This is censorship that the majority of the community *wants*.
Certainly there'd be a really big gray area on what's OK and what's not, but banning horrible content that the community wants to be banned doesn't seem like a terrible decision.
Comment by jaxxil_ at 07/09/2014 at 19:32 UTC
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The community is not monolithic, first of all. There were, and are, a variety of opinions about the leaked pictures, and about certain subreddits. What would the reaction have been to banning? I don't know, but looking at the upvotes of some of the threads, there definitely wasn't a unilateral opinion of 'ban this filth', more the opposite. Imagine what could have happened had the admins stepped in at the height of the hype, and decided to ban this content.
Maybe you think it wouldn't be as big of a deal as the HD-DVD incident. Perhaps not. But you shouldn't underestimate the power of narrative. "Reddit is in the pocket of celebrities, promoting their AMA app!" "Reddit is being hypocritical, suddenly bending their knee because there are powerful lawyers at play!" "This content was never censored when it wasn't celebrities!" Cue clusterfuck. Some of this is already happening *without* the ban. You can't just start banning without thinking it through, or you risk a visit from Streisand.