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You are operating under the premise here that what youtube/reddit have banned is something illegal and immoral. Reddit literally banned forums for posting good deals they found for firearms and accessories online. And youtube is banning channels that feature people enjoying their completely legal hobby enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people.

No, the problem here is that governments and large institutions are using truly evil things to convince people to ban completely innocuous things for commercial reasons. This is online gentrification for the corps. And for government, using kids/terrorism/communists is the oldest trick in the book to violate the rights of their citizens.



Human trafficking is about the least innocuous thing I can imagine.


Scare tactics to convince citizens to willingly give up their rights is even less innocuous.


Who gives a shit about Reddit? I’m talking in context of the law that is mentioned in the original article


We can talk about that too. In the original article's context you have government regulation using the tiny, mostly irrelevant threat of 'human trafficing' in order to justify imposing their moral standards on people who don't stigmatize sex like all those old religious farts in congress do.

But really it's not even about that. "Think of the children" is and always has been a cover to simply expand federal power.


The person you replied to had mentioned reddit in their comment so it was kind of a natural progression.

They're saying that the scenario where reddit removed some subreddits for wholly subjective reasons is similar to this craigslist thing.


Which it isn’t. At all. One is mandated by law and the other is self imposed community standards.




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