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It has been said many times that is not illegal to link to stolen or copyrighted material because you are not the host and are not in possession of it at all. It is not quite the same with the underage issue from which I can see their point, but once again there are many other subreddits with the same type of material with no age verification. In the end it seems to be that the only legitimate reason for interfering with the original subreddit in question would be to keep out the underage pictures, and it just seems like they didn't feel like trying so they just banned the whole thing cuz it fit well with a PC campaign they can garner public support from. Which is totally ridiculous because every Redditor hates PC crap and they hate catering to public pressure even more. In all honesty I personally feel like the admins chose to cater to outside pressure than to support their own Reddit community and as a Redditor I feel more that a little let down and that saddens me...
Comment by mystyc at 08/09/2014 at 11:01 UTC
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It has been said many times that is not illegal to link to stolen or copyrighted material because you are not the host and are not in possession of it at all.
Ah I see, thanks. I guess that would make administration easier for them, in general. Though, in this situation it seems that there was an inconsistent enforcement of their rules, but I can't really speculate on the reasoning and intentionality behind the inconsistent action.
I was not personally following any of this drama, and haven't actually used reddit in awhile. Imagine my amusement on returning and discovering all this drama over some "fappening" (clearly it is more than that, but that's what I saw initially).
At the end there, you expressed your disappointment about the situation, but was that meant to be directed at the general situation itself, or rather at the possibility that your implication about their reasoning and intentionality might be accurate?