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[–] rty654rty654@lemmy.ca 146 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Reddit has no problems pushing war footage though. Real people actually dying is totally cool!

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's more a prudish American culture thing than a reddit-specific thing. We went to see the latest Guardians movie over the weekend, in which they foleyed out the line "classy hoes" from No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and showed all sorts of violence, gory deaths, and lots of pretty fucking serious child abuse. And finally dropped the first f-bomb in any MCU movie, in the line "open the fucking door," which was said not in anger, but in exasperation.

America loves its violence, but don't you dare make any reference to anything close to sexuality.

[–] frevaljee@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't usa founded by literal puritans? So it sorta makes sense from a historical/cultural perspective

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ehhh, sort of. Yes, a group of Puritans came over on the Mayflower, but they were about half the passengers. The other half were in it for the money, going to set up shop in the new world for mercantilist purposes. Which explains kind of a lot.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Religious fanatics and greedy people took over a huge continent with a lot of resources. Yup, where we are now is a very expected result.

[–] JonEFive@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Combined with personalities that were ambitious enough to leave literally everything behind and make a rather perilous trek just for the opportunity to access and potentially exploit those resources.

[–] ironic_elk@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Seems like not a whole lot has changed over these centuries.

[–] tjp@readit.buzz 2 points 2 years ago

Nah this was a reddit thing.

Reddit's response to all the protests and stuff is that it's a small minority of users. These moves by mods were meant to thin the herds of casual users (perhaps relying on American prudishness) but they followed all the rules around NSFW content. This response by reddit is more lying and gaslighting.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

law and order:svu was a great example of this, imho. you can show someone getting murdered but they are always fully clothed or positioned so that nothing is revealed.

[–] ikantolol@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

huh, I remember they actually banned a sub (WatchPeopleDie, IIRC) about footage where people actually dying, like the sub is full of videos of people's last moment, not like the PeopleFuckingDying which is a funneh sub, or WatchPeopleDieInside which is another funneh sub. Maybe it's too morbid.

[–] Montagge@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can go watch people die in a horrific manner in CombatFootage any day all day

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't care about the content, 'WatchPeopleDie' was just too on-the-nose for them

[–] knatsch@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It made news after germany banned it, so they've been forced to do something.

[–] borkcorkedforks@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

That is really the only reason they've done anything in the past about subs. That or the risk of actual legal trouble.

Similar things happened to jailbait and thedonald. Without media attention those subs would probably still be active.

[–] Deliverator@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its that good old American puritanical spirit at work

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Gore fine, nipple bad.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

NSFL tag is more important than nsfw tag for me.