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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 06:18 PM Feb 2015

Reddit Cracks Down on Nude Photos Months After Celebrity Hacking Scandal

Source: ABC News

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For nearly a decade, Reddit has been everything from a conduit for intelligent conversation to a dumping ground for questionable content. When it comes to cracking down on users, Reddit has long been averse to rules and, instead, let its millions-strong community police the boards.

Announcing a new privacy policy today, the site's executive team wrote, "Last year, we missed a chance to be a leader in social media when it comes to protecting your privacy -- something we've cared deeply about since reddit's inception."

Effective March 10, Reddit users will no longer be allowed to post sexually explicit photos without the subject's consent. Anyone with an issue can flag a photo to expedite its removal.

"No matter who you are, if a photograph, video, or digital image of you in a state of nudity, sexual excitement, or engaged in any act of sexual conduct, is posted or linked to on reddit without your permission, it is prohibited on reddit," the company's executive team wrote. "We also recognize that violent personalized images are a form of harassment that we do not tolerate and we will remove them when notified."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reddit-cracks-nude-photos-months-celebrity-hacking-scandal/story?id=29194041

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Reddit Cracks Down on Nude Photos Months After Celebrity Hacking Scandal (Original Post) inanna Feb 2015 OP
LOLz Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #1
Anyone? V0ltairesGh0st Feb 2015 #2

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
1. LOLz
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 06:22 PM
Feb 2015

Are all the pseudo-libertarian bad kiddie Redditors screaming about their First Amendment yet? Have they threatened to take the site owners to the Supreme Court?

 

V0ltairesGh0st

(306 posts)
2. Anyone?
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 06:30 PM
Feb 2015
Anyone with an issue can flag a photo to expedite its removal



Well Reddit... it was nice knowin ya... mass exedous approved. If anyone can get a photo removed even if its a self post by that person... then there is no point anymore. May as well be just like DU without the jury.
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