• @[email protected]
      57•2 years ago

      When people add you as a mod, you can still leave. He never did. That subreddit in particular was known to have the blessing of the reddit admins to operate and eventually made ‘subreddit of the month’. Then a news org picked up that reddit was hosting this content and then they shut it down.

      They were well aware of what was going on. Andrewsmith is right, there is some plausible deniability there, but with the everything else we know about Steve Huffman, I’m not so sure I can agree with his assessment that it was forced upon him.

      • Roboticide
        12•2 years ago

        Andrewsmith is right,

        As he often is. That guy knows more about Reddit than Huffman does. Hope he moves to Lemmy.

      • @[email protected]
        9•2 years ago

        He let Ghislain Maxwell mod a bunch of subs until she eventually went to jail. It was common knowledge that its was her account but no problem from the pedo reddit admins

        • Striker
          7•2 years ago

          It was never proven that the account was hers and it was literally just users automatically claiming that account was Ghislaine Maxwell because that account stopped posting around the same time she got arrested. Nothing bugs me more than that myth being parroted as if it was proven fact.

    • @[email protected]
      50•2 years ago

      While it’s certainly better than actively moderating a community…

      Is being the admin of a website that actively hosts jailbait and required a massive media outrage to finally remove it that much better? I get free speech and all, but I mean, the subreddit straight up catalogued which pictures were “fap material” and encouraged people (including parents) to take candid photos of the children around them.

      A community like that wouldn’t last a millisecond in a server I host.

      • @[email protected]English
        21•2 years ago

        It’s not like it was a small sub either, IIRC. I’m not going to google jailbait to find the stories, but it must’ve been a few hundred thousand subscribers I think. At a time when the big subs had a few mill at most.

      • @[email protected]
        0•2 years ago

        Even though it was ethically very bad, it was legal. And Reddit had a policy of not removing content, unless it was illegal or doxxing.

        The fact is that they wanted to follow the same principles as the government, and allow complete freedom of speech. And if you are following freedom of speech, the ethicality of content is irrelevant.

        Reddit never approved of r/jailbait. They simply allowed it.