As Episode 122 of Pokemon: The Journey Continues, we may likely anticipate the beginning of their battle. The first semifinal matchup pits Dande against Carne, as you could have guessed from the title. Semifinals 1-Sweep is the name of this episode. In next week’s episode, the Pokemon masters’ tournament will officially begin. This is normal for large communities, but it does mean that Reddit will now steadily trend towards moralism, bureaucracy, and conservatism.READ ALSO: Fraud Drama Cast, Story, Timing, Release Date, Teaser, OST on Ary Digital Spoilers For Episode 122 In essence, Reddit is too big to maintain its Wild West status and is graduating (morphing) into the next stage of its life cycle. Reddit clearly states that this blanket ban is because its “previous policy to deal with on a case by case basis has become unsustainable.” In other words, Reddit is now so popular that it cannot practically afford its members the right to free speech. Can I post this photo of a cute girl? I don’t think she looks under 18, but what if Reddit disagrees? Where Redditors were once empowered users of the largest, free community on the web, they are now beholden to moral whimsy. Gone are the protections of free speech and free thought. That’s the problem: As soon as you curtail free speech just slightly, everything becomes so complicated. While we’re at it, Reddit is more than happy to continue hosting 18+ porn subreddits - but what happens when photos of (apparently) underage boys and girls inevitably appear on those boards? Will Reddit shut them down? Does a subreddit have to have a certain number of offending images to be considered a child porn board? How long do the moderators have to delete those posts? Has Reddit published these thresholds anywhere? Where do you draw the line? For example, /r/picsofdeadkids (don’t visit it) is still accessible, as is /r/beatingwomen. You can try to introduce a measure of objectiveness - in the US, a female nipple is explicit in Europe, nipples are fine - but at the end of the day it’s almost impossible to qualify whether a photo is sexual in nature or not.īut that’s how the censorship cookie crumbles. One moderator might decide a picture is fine, but another moderator (or the FBI) might feel otherwise. It is this gray subjectiveness that makes child porn such a difficult topic to discuss and to police. What gray area is next? File sharing? Growing your own weed or cooking your own meth? How to build a bomb? Gray or not, though, Reddit has also exiled lolicon and shotacon from this day on. Whether this covers anime/manga that depicts minors is another gray area. CGI) that depict a minor in a sexually explicit way. All of the banned subreddits fall into this gray area.įurthermore, US child porn law covers digital images (i.e. Obviously the definition of “sexually explicit” is subjective, which leads to this being a very gray area of the law. A photo of a boy or girl that is not sexually explicit is fine. To be classified as “child pornography” a work must be sexually explicit or obscene. For a start, “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors” (i.e. Let’s take a step back and look at what Reddit actually banned today. It is now not a question of if Reddit will swing its ban hammer again it’s merely a matter of what it will ban. ![]() This is the slippery slope that Reddit (and its passionate users) talk about. Whether this is because the Feds are leaning on Reddit, or because it simply doesn’t have the necessary resources to police the posting of inappropriate images, we don’t know. In other words, Reddit is well aware that this is the beginning of the end for free speech, but that it has no choice in the matter. However, child pornography is a toxic and unique case for Internet communities, and we’re protecting reddit’s ability to operate by removing this threat.” Following that, right at the end of the post, Reddit finally provides a justification for the ban: “We will tirelessly defend the right to freely share information on reddit in any way we can, even if it is offensive or discusses something that may be illegal. “We understand that this might make some of you worried about the slippery slope from banning one specific type of content to banning other types of content,” reads the the jailbait-banning missive. ![]() Reddit isn’t ignorant of the precedent that this sets. Around 30 offending subreddits have been shut down, and Reddit is promising to keep on top of any new subreddits that emerge. In an unexpected watershed moment, one of the last remaining bastions of free speech, Reddit, has banned the posting of “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors.” In one fell swoop Reddit has asserted that it retains moral control over the direction and usage of the site. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page.
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