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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
Reddit is based in the US, not the UK, there other rules about illegal content only consider the laws in the US.
Comment by The_Year_of_Glad at 16/07/2015 at 21:01 UTC
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Reddit is based in the US, but large numbers of individual Redditors are not. So even if they're posting on a US-hosted site, posting the content that they are posting may be in and of itself a criminal act in their countries of origin. For example, a Thai Redditor who posts something derogatory about the royal family in /r/Fuck_Bhumibol is breaking Thai law regarding *lese majeste*.
Also, even if he's speaking purely about US law (which he hasn't clarified at this point), that doesn't answer the question of how Reddit will apply the concept of "community standards" w/r/t the laws of individual states. Until that is made clear, there is no way for Redditors to know exactly what is permitted, and what is not.
Comment by Darr_Syn at 16/07/2015 at 21:16 UTC
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There are still places in the United States where BDSM is illegal to practice.