Reddit may have been served with a national Security letter. Recipients of such letters are forbidden to either confirm or deny their being served with such letters. But they can say if they have never been the recipient of said letters. Libraries in the US sometimes use this "canary" indicator. Anyway, Reddit just published their annual report and omitted the line saying, they have never been the recipient of a national security letter. People noticed.
This comes from the Daily Mail so take it with a grain of salt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519294/Social-media-users-raise-concern-Reddit-changes-transparency-report.html
Not surprised.
spez (Reddit CEO) said it as best he could.
"I've been advised not to say anything one way or the other."
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_your_reading_pleasure_our_2015_transparency/d1koy09
"Even with the canaries, we're treading a fine line. The whole thing is icky, which is why we joined Twitter in pushing back."
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_your_reading_pleasure_our_2015_transparency/d1koeqt?context=3
I wonder which individual or group they are after ?
I'm not a member, is there anything subversive on Reddit ?
Cheers,
Gary.
Though I've been a member off-on since it began, I rarely login. When I've finished my rss feeds, I like to surf their r/random link for obscure stuff. Even avoiding the nsfw & nsfl posts, it's evident that -even with their cleanup efforts- reddit has a lot of 4chan in its dna. Piracy, drugs (*particularly* marijuana), and even shoplifting have subreddits. Porn is huge, of course, covering many categories. Recently, I've seen complaints about pedophilia spamming (on reddit clone voat.com) and spamming in general on reddit. There are dozens upon dozens of subreddits for or about foreign countries or groups that are currently on the First World's watchlist.
So, yeah, I'd say it's a ripe target.
It's fine being pro free spech and taking a hands-off attitude but allowing child pornography ?
I guess it's hard to police such a large site.
As much as I use reddit, I haven't seen any pedo stuff. Then again, I consciously avoid a lot of the problematic areas like anime and manga since I have zero interest in them. I wouldn't characterize reddit as allowing it, but they are struggling with controlling the userbase. Voat broke off from reddit when they first started clamping down and it tends to be more free-speech-at-any-cost.
Reddit has really cleaned up last year, which pushed many to Voat.
http://recode.net/2015/07/16/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-changes-content-policy-lists-bannable-offenses/
Replace 4chan with Voat, this chart still works.
(https://th3core.com/chat/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F70Qzy.jpg&hash=075d1788bfaf1fb588ac529873feac668e0982df)
"adult content will require a NSFW tag and a user login in order to be viewed"
Required login hasn't happened. NSFW tagging seems better.
They are trying to straddle the issue (and strangle the offending subreddits, imo) with quarantines
https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205701245-Quarantined-Subreddits