A total ban on pornography on Reddit would be yet another blow to sex workers’ ability to survive online, and to avoid the actual exploitation that NCOSE claims to want to prevent. NCOSE has been criticized by experts in anti-trafficking as using “misleading ‘research reports’ to fabricate a false medical consensus about the harms of pornography.” The organization publishes an annual “dirty dozen” report of companies it deems supportive of “pornography,” including fast food burger joint Carl’s Jr., coupon site Groupon, and Walmart.Ĭaught in these cries for overarching bans on adult content are sex workers promoting their legal work, harm reduction communities, and groups that support constitutionally-protected speech about their personal kink and fetish lifestyles. Reddit, by comparison, sent 10,059 reports that year. Both those platforms have some of the strictest policies against pornography of any social media network. There were 22 million reports from Facebook, which NCOSE uses daily to share updates with its 38,000 followers. Last year, Reddit strengthened its policies against nonconsensual image sharing, including offering improved support for victims of image-based abuse.ĭata shows that blanket bans of adult content don’t work in 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s received more than three million reports from Instagram.
I'll start collecting post stamps, like my father before me.” I don't make money here, and moderation takes a time out of my day. “Do I particularly care about the fate of my subreddit should such a ban be applied? No. “If a vacuum like that is created again, it will be filled,” a moderator for r/workgonewild told Motherboard. In 2018, Tumblr banned all porn from its site, a move that’s become a touchstone example for platforms eradicating sexual content and nuking an entire user base with it. Porn will be available, it would just take a while for it to consolidate around new locations.” But it wouldn't be a big deal in the long run. “A huge number of people come here for that. In the short term, banning adult content would suck,” they said. “I don't think Reddit should ban porn or adult communities. Absolutely demented, brain-damaged imbeciles, absolutely self-defeating, too stupid to think two seconds in front of their faces.”Ī moderator for r/18_19 told Motherboard that they don’t expect Reddit to ban adult content anytime soon, but if it did, that it could push people to decentralized platforms, or platforms that are more difficult to moderate or search. These anti-sex religious groups are all alike: they're all depraved, repressed perverts. Driving all porn underground is profoundly dangerous and stupid. Big sites like Reddit are significantly safer and better moderated than the internet in general. “Likewise, in getting all the big, well-moderated porn sites taken down, these demented religious perverts will inevitably drive all porn underground into closed communities where there is no moderation or control whatsoever.
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“If they win, everyone loses, including themselves,” the mod said. The moderator pointed out that bills like FOSTA/SESTA-which NCOSE supported and which is largely considered a failure-drive sex workers further underground to one effect: causing more precarity to workers. Unfortunately, mindlessly shrieking ‘Won't somebody please think of the children?’ over and over is a dangerously over-effective tactic.” It's just a matter of time, and reintroducing the laws several times under different acronyms until people get tired of fighting. “Eventually groups like NCOSE will get porn outlawed from the web in general. Like many adult subreddits, posts focused on a specific fetish come from both adult performers promoting their work, and other users who are reposting adult content they lifted from other sites without permission.
“If they cause enough fuss in the media, over and over, eventually Reddit will decide it's not financially worthwhile to stand up for sanity, and they'll just nuke porn out of convenience,” a moderator for r/cumsluts, a 3-million subscriber community for adult content, told Motherboard. Moderators of adult subreddits say that this demand is unsurprising, but bleak.
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