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. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
Is it cover for a targeted purge?
Let's see what subs stay banned.
People are forgetting this all springs from the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
THEY are the ones pulling the strings behind Trump. The corporations and billionaires funding that (not Musk) that are shelling out the cash and have been since the Reagan era.
Folks who think that the Pornhub ban in a few states and the ID request in others is the new norm are going to be in for a surprise when a nationwide ban gets passed shortly. That has always been on the agenda for them.
It’s a Christian Extremist agenda (think Handmaids Tale) and all you fuckers who voted for him or didn’t vote in retaliation allowed this shit to happen.
I cannot believe the amount shocked people I’ve ran across at work recently, who are Republicans who are still in denial and still think things are going to get better - or have some sort of bizarre belief that Trump is going to start suddenly making everything cheaper for everyone. Idiots!
Seems like some of the bans are being undone? Testing the waters? Banning everything until a mod steps forward and says they were actively modding?
Yep, updated the title. Hard to not get conspiratorial though when it affects subs like /r/transgender_surgeries... might be testing the waters.
Is it? The first two nsfw subs I tried, both of them were up.
Is there some theme perhaps to what has been banned? removed pointless insult
I updated the title to reflect that they were being unbanned as of this moment. But if you look at the thread I linked, this was all true a couple hours ago.
Even took out AskRedditnsfw.
It's okay though admins may reverse it...
Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!
I never thought I'd see the day.
Isn't NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
Isn't NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
If old.reddit.com ever stopped working, NSFW content would be my primary reason for downloading the app...lmao
They can't run ads on the subs though so they can't use it to monetize. Big reason they got so pissed off at mods changing subs to nsfw
And reddit these days only cares about PR so can also be a time bomb. Only surprised they haven't nuked everything NSFW
I know it's the only reason I ever end up there these days.
I only still go to reddit for that on one account (in incognito). My main account has only recently logged back in for regular browsing (but I try not to comment and I only use old.reddit + res) because Reddit is where a huge amount of the information I'm trying to find online is still housed, game information, niche hobbies, etc... It may be rotting from the inside, but its corpse is still walking and talking, and until the situation gets bad enough people are going to continue using it. I only interact here, but with the nature of how small the communities are, and the fact that I use [All - Top -Past 6 hours] my front page is still basically just the same articles about every fucked up thing going on around me posted onto every instance so I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times, interspersed with various fetish porn communities.
I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times
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lol if i filtered out trump/musk posts and block the furry instances there would be nothing left!
Is it time to train some Hunyuan Video/Flux loras or Spez pleasing Trump?
I think it may be. They can’t ban them all by signature if they’re unique.
I have absolutely no idea what these companies are doing.
Are they afraid of Trump? Are they afraid of Musk? Are they afraid of the combination of both?
Idk, I thought two incompetent idiots like them would be no threat to the corpos of America, even in the oval office. But maybe I overestimated the corpos.
Or are they jumping on the band wagon voluntarily? It's so weird to me...
Pencil-pushers live in a bubble, remember
In fascism, the state and business essentially become one entity. These corporations just see the writing on the wall, and I'm sure many of them are doing it purely out of self-preservation.
Others probably have some romantic view of industry in Nazi Germany, and think they can glom onto the fascists and become the next Hugo Boss or Volkswagon.
You’re saying they’re going along to get along.
It’s bizarre that anyone would care about a subreddit, unless it’s spite. Basically, oh, you banned incels and nazis? You will be dismantled as a monopoly (or some other ludicrous threat) if you don’t now ban trans. That’s what you get.
As I type that last paragraph I’m thinking of the 1A speech in November that everyone, minus ~300k people on YT, ignored. He promised to search out and go after the moderators, the banners, the shadow banners (who told him about shadow banning?), of all of social media, and punish them. This is likely the “polished” rollout of that directive, per his admin.
Remember, when trump told staff to do things during the first 4 people did a lot of nodding and then did nothing, talked him out of things, talked him into waiting on that, as well as having gaping holes where staff should have been. Now, he gives a directive, and the Project 2025 people and corporate can say “yes sir” and twist that trump directive into whatever shape they like.
These corporations just see the writing on the wall, and I'm sure many of them are doing it purely out of self-preservation.
I guess, but as I said, I did not expect the corpos of America that have basically bought the government through lobbyists to be afraid of that. Especially the tech giants, who could probably reshape public opinion with a turn of a dial on their algorithms.
Others probably have some romantic view of industry in Nazi Germany, and think they can glom onto the fascists and become the next Hugo Boss or Volkswagon.
Musk and his companies certainly expect that, but I am skeptical of the others to join in this late.
Both explanations are possible but they seem unlikely to me. I feel like I am missing a piece of the puzzle.
Most of this only works if you play along. If they all just said no, there would be nothing like this. The only real threat is to Google because it’s a legit monopoly. I don’t see what a substantial executive branch threat would be on any of the social medias. The TikTok thing only happened due to the China tag.
Looks like new corporate virtue signalling to me.
That’s exactly what it is.
They see more dollar signs from fascism than they do from pretending to care about, well, anything.
They already have dollars. There must be another motivator.
I assume they will most likely not come over here because there are users like this mod:
spez wants a cabinet position.
Or musk to buy it and make him super rich