Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
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They're a subsidiary of reddit so I hope they go bankrupt
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Aren't they independent? They started as an image host for reddit but I thought they'd always been separate
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No. Reddit bought them a while ago
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They definitely didn't
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Ok sweaty :@konkey_dongle64pat:
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Can't wait for half of the public-facing internet to be [sorry, this image was deleted] once this goes thru
Current hyperfixation:
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I'm having vietnam flashbacks to the photobucket frog.
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Imageshack had a frog pic, photobucket had something different.
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This already happened, RIP tinypic and along with it the visual history of old forums
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An old car forum I've been a part of for 15 years has technical info threads full of dead photobucket links.
So much useful information lost forever
I've started self hosting service manuals and other data I've collected over the years to try and keep some of this stuff alive
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everything has to die. how else will humanity declutter?
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Thanks Patriot AI
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archive.org better get moving
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I'm not ready to face another heck like this
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The glorious days of dead hotlinks are back
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Because any platforms that allow anonymous users to upload large amounts of files that aren't well indexed and can be hidden from the public inevitably gets FLOODED with CP
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Yeah CP account are fricking everywhere on twitter and I hate how everyone was like "they stopped you from searching the word loli in the search bar, everything is solved!" And now nobody cares any more
What's funny is how I discovered this problem independently a while ago - I was looking through what accounts weeb groypers were following lmao, filled with private p-do accounts
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I've been on the Internet for 23 years and have NEVER come across CP (except weeb loli shit that isn't real) randomly ever. And this is with years of browsing 4Chan, Reddit and other forums. I don't know what Internet you guys are on.
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I haven't seen any actual cp thankfully but those twitter accounts I mentioned are a very well known problem, and incredibly easy to find
If you ever spent much time on the chans over a decade ago it was fairly common, and these days it's still used as a way to troll websites with raids and shit
But seriously, it's eeeeverywhere on twitter, just go check some weeb groyper Nazi accounts, you will see in the list of accs they follow there will be new accounts made within the last few weeks, private, saying stuff like "DM me" n shit
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I've come across it but yeah it's rare, even if you're terminally online
I think once on Facebook and all other times chans/imageboards or random sites, but never on porn sites
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hope you reportmaxxed that shit my dude (in person, with a sniper scope, in minecraft)
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Isn’t it weird how tech companies can’t get rid of CP but they’re able to completely purge conspiracy theories, hateful speech and vaccine misinformation from their platforms.
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Text is a lot easier to automatically search than images
Not to mention lol non-english twitter is just full of the stuff
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I mean they try but they dont succeed. Virtue signalling is easier than solving crimes
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Because child porn inevitably ends up on it in large quantities.
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Rather the cost of dealing with it.
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There's a lot of pedos in prison who'd do it for free and never get burnt out.
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Law mandates that prisoners get paid for work, unlike jannies.
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Ah, thanks for the heads up. Need to grab a bunch of stuff I had uploaded.
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Payment processors do not like dealing with porn in general and most of that is due to it probably being the industry with the most chargebacks and stolen cards being used.
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Twitter is atm too big to be clamped down on like that. Give it another year with Musk at the helm
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there's people with a fetish for this on twitter, I've seen it go around. truly it takes all types
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Pet the wet to mammories bro
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