Well there goes a fundamental internet utility I’ve taken for granted for years.
isn’t porn the primary purpose of imgur, this is tumblr all over again
Chuds made like 3 different terrible imgur clones because they weren’t allowed to be racist/etc, I wonder how many clones will spawn to accommodate porn
Reddit is going public, so this has to happen. Imgur and Reddit are basically linked together. They are also not allowing any NSFW content to be pulled by the third party API, you have to use the official App or website to view NSFW Reddit posts in future.
Reddit is most likely a hotbed of illegal pornographic content, given that there is no actual proper verification process. And implementing a standardised verification process would be admitting that Reddit and Imgur are part porn websites, which would also be a bad look for investors.
Its Tumblr 2.0, but dumber.
Its destined to tank no matter what happens.
The situation is that Reddit and Imgur have a sizeable amount of likely illegal pornographic content on their servers.
Their options are:
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To ban all the porn. Which it looks like they are trying to do. On paper this is the best option for investors, as it protects the investment. However in the real world this can piss off the userbase and tank the website by loosing a sizeable amount of users (see Tumblr).
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To continue without any changes. This is also guarantees the investment tanking, all it takes is one Anderson Cooper style jailbait investigation into Reddit to destroy the investment.
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To implement proper verification for pornographic content, like pornhub and onlyfans did. But as I said, the investors don’t want it to be public knowledge that they are investing in a porn website in some way, and Reddit implementing proper verification processes will make that public knowledge. Thus also devaluing the investment.
There is no way to win for the investors .
Why is option one bad for investors? If you have 100 million pre-ban users you can’t invest in and 20 million of them leaves because of the porn ban that still gives you 80 million users you can invest in.
It’s the same thing with requiring user accounts. Hosting a billion images for random people for free is less interesting from an investment perspective than hosting 200 million images for registered user that you can extract more data from and maybe even sell a premium subscription to.
Services that makes the internet convenient, accessible and anonymous are not necessarily a good capitalist investment. Stuff like somewhere you can upload images to is more like a public utility in nature than a capitalist business.
I bet it’s the same problem tumblr and pornhub had. They’re realizing they’ve got a bunch of illegal pornography on their computers and they would rather they didn’t.
moderation
this would require hiring people to moderate so it’s impossible
Stricter moderation would mean an onlyfans style verification involving IDs and consent forms. Which would be admitting that Reddit and Imgur are part porn sites. With Reddit going public, this is the last thing investors would want. They are investing in a social media style link aggregator, not onlyfans free (at least that’s what they want to portray publicly).
In short the whole Reddit going public is fucking everything up.
2257, baby! Reddit and imgur are both Secondary providers Producers as are their users. Strange the DOJ has never cared. :thinkin-lenin:
I mean a lot of Reddit porn is no longer a secondary provider thing, lots of people create Reddit accounts to post nude images of themselves and nothing else. The images are either hosted on Reddit themselves or Imgur.
Wait, sorry, it’s Secondary Producer, not provider. Secondary Producer is actually a legal term under 2257 that indicates their role as a host obligates them to keep certain identification on hand of all models pictured in the porn. The same goes for the people who share the images, even if they’re not the creators of the image. It’s a fucked law that’s gone in an out of limbo since it’s inception.
I mean yes, Reddit is going public for investors, Imgur was invented as a Reddit image host in the beginning. And Reddit is full of illegal porn. Verification on porn subs is done by moderators that don’t even work for Reddit, all it requires is a nude photo with the date and subreddit name on a piece of paper for most. There is no actual age or person verification. All it will take it another Anderson Cooper style jailbait investigation to tank their investment.
