This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Sounds like another case of US tech companies fucking with the web of EU regulations to nobody's benefit but their own.
It's no wonder they moved to another tax haven. Sorry, sorry. The EU doesn't have tax havens according to their own rules. Low tax threshold geographic jurisdictions.
Time for the EU to rip him a new one :)
I‘m confused. Reddit claims it doesn’t host videos, just links to them but it absolutely does host videos.
~~Not since the last half decade.~~
edit: i read the comment backwards. oops.
as a connoisseur of science on Reddit, I can most assuredly confirm Reddit does host video content.
Check edit
You can upload videos straight to Reddit in 2024
Sounds like it'll need blocked in Ireland then
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Fuck Spez
What's the joke about? Does Ireland block everything that comes from the Netherlands?
It's more a "If a company doesn't comply with a coutry's regulations then it can't operate in that country" thing and not a joke.
For example Twitter when it was blocked in Brazil for a little while because they didn't want to pay a fine for not complying with some of their regulations.
It requires them to restrict certain categories of video, so that users cannot share content on cyberbullying, promoting eating disorders, promotion of self harm or incitement to hatred on a number of grounds.
Wow, what a horrible, restraining overreach.
I am shedding tears for the 1.2% engagement loss this would cost Reddit next quarter. Imagine what they have to pay devs for filtering abusive videos!
(I hate to sound so salty, but its mind boggling that they would fight this so vehemently, instead of just... filtering abusive content? Which they already do for anything that actually costs them any profit).
I hate to sound so salty, but its mind boggling that they would fight this so vehemently, instead of just… filtering abusive content?
I guess it's just enshittification. Profits are their first priority.
Well......the problem is reddit's size.
I'm not part of reddit anymore because they filtered me out for abusive content.
The content that was so abusive? I told a story on /r/Cleveland about the time 35 years ago I got my bike stolen.
I wasn't accusing any current reddit user of being the theif. But reddit bots flagged me of being abusive to other users.
We don't even know if that guy who stole my bike 35 years ago is even still alive, much less an active redditor on /r/Cleveland. So who am I being abusive to, when I say it's a bad idea to let strangers ride your bike without some kind of assurance you'll get it back?
Well…the problem is reddit’s size.
They've never been shy about targeting certain subs and communities for shutdown when it suits their commercial interests. This has nothing to do with size and everything to do with the nature of the content itself.
These videos are pure clickbait. They feed engagement. They build up lots of enthusiasm both among content providers and active users. And, as a consequence, they make the company money.
But reddit bots flagged me of being abusive to other users.
Bots will flag any post purely based on keyword searches and AI parsing of sentiment. Its got nothing to do with your actual statement. But it also depends heavily on who you are, where you post, and how often other users flag you. Very possibly you simply got "Report" flagged a bunch of times by other users for some reason and that - plus a naive parsing - was all the AI bot needed to know.
But I'll also bet the post wasn't getting thousands of unique interactions and external visits. If you'd been a power-poster who was posting a face-cam rant rather than a text blob, I suspect you'd have been fine.
I got banned when I told a literal Nazi, that said that literal Jews should die, should drink bleach to purify their genes before they contaminated the genepool.
I still stand by it. my grandfather fucked up Nazis, and I'll fuck up Nazis too.
same with me and /r/Toronto got banned for stating a long dead prime minister was horrible to indigenous people. they used the excuse that I was submitting too many articles about crimes in the city as that subreddit's mods automatically remove any content about crime or pro Palestinian content.
Post god knows how many photos of the CN tower, the fucking sun setting or snow...hey that's great! anything that's news worthy and potentially paints the city in a bad light? nope, censored. It's so bad that i'm convinced the mods there are being paid under the table by the City.
I hate Reddit as much as the next guy but that just sounds like an asshole mod
In 3 different unrelated subs, and all said to be performed as an automated action?
Also of note, I got permabanned on May 7th.
May 4th I joined Mastadon. Using the same email as my reddit email.
Fair. +1
But also, that just sounds like they're cheaping out on content filtering. And, you know, kinda broke the enthusiastic community moderation that made it great in the first place.
Yes, that's true. This all happened like 3 weeks after they went public IPO. I didn't buy it, because I thought reddit had a decent chance of falling on it's ass on the free market. It's a 10+ year old company that's never made a profit. It's reasonable to assume it might fail.
3 weeks after I declined, and they went public, I suddenly get 3 temporary bans in a week, and the 3rd one was a permanent ban. All by autobots.
Probably would require them to actually pay moderators! The horror!
Dear Netherlands,
The pigboy is your problem now. Sorry not sorry.
Sincerely,
Everyone else
Fuck Spez
He's such a disgusting greedy little pig boy who frankly belongs in a deep hole where nobody will find him 🙏
