Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West? - eviltoast
  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    243·
    4 months ago

    Reddit wouldn’t censor those names. People are self censoring on the big subreddits

    • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
      32·
      4 months ago

      There is currently a tiny bit of uproar over at r/irelandshittydrivers. A user took a photo of a work van that blocked two disabled spots. He sent the photo via Whatsapp to the company, which responded in a batshit crazy manner (for some reason, escalated it to praising Osama for 9/11). Naturally, the user posted the photo and the conversation to Reddit. Within a few hours, the company contacted Reddit and had the post removed. If a company with perhaps three customers per week can do it, what do you think large companies can do? Censoring user posts would be only the tip of the iceberg.

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Did the company DMCA it? Or did the mods remove it? I can’t find anything on this.

        • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          Form yor own opinion. This is the original thread. A follow-up thread claimed that it was removed by Reddit admins because the picture of the van showed the company name and phone number. That thread included the fan with blacked-out identifiers and was allowed to stay up until users didn’t start identifying the company in the comments.