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Reddit will allow users to upload NSFW images from desktop:
Reddit announced Thursday that it will now allow users to upload NSFW images from desktops in adult communities. The feature was already available on the social network's mobile app.
[...] "This now gives us feature parity with our mobile apps, which (as you know) already has this functionality. You must set your community to 18+ if your community's content will primarily be not safe for work (NSFW)," the company said.
Reddit's announcement comes days after Imgur said that the image hosting platform was banning explicit photos from May 15. At that time, the company said that explicit content formed a risk to Imgur's "community and its business". Banning this type of content would "protect the future of the Imgur community."
Many of Reddit's communities rely on Imgur's hosting services. However, the social network allowing native NSFW uploads through desktop might be the most logical solution going forward.
Image hosting is not the only hurdle for NSFW communities. Last month, when Reddit announced that it will start charging for its API, the company also said that it will limit access to mature content available through its API. This would directly impact the experience on third-party Reddit apps. In yesterday's announcement about desktop upload for NSFW images, a Reddit staff members said that the company is discussing how to navigate this situation.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Monday May 22, @08:27AM (3 children)
There's also another view (there's probably as many views as people who care to have the idea fleetingly cross their minds).
For naïve people who have not grown up in the decidedly odd culture of the USA, they may just associate the Confederate flag with a TV programme of their childhood: the The Dukes of Hazzard [wikipedia.org], which is a cutesy pastiche of rural southern USA, and the flag is associated with comic-book style rebellion. These days, the programme would be regarded as horrifically non-politically correct.
But in these days of respecting other people's (especially minority's) opinions and feelings, your generally positive view of the symbol, driven by your personal experience is equally valid as someone else's. Of course, someone could play the "I'm more oppressed than you are" game, together with asserting that you are playing 'privilege' card you didn't know you had.
Of course, you may cry that someone who has such a wrong view of the symbol needs to be (re-)educated so they understand its true horror: but to do so tramples over their child-like innocence, which is surely worth preserving. Symbols can have multiple meanings: the swastika use by Nazi Germany was earlier used as a Hindu symbol symbolising the sun, prosperity, and good luck. The symbol is not the thing. A symbol can have multiple interpretations, equally valid or invalid, and to delete a symbol does not delete the thing.
In another world, the car in the Dukes of Hazzard might have been called the General Rommel rather than the General Lee, and have a Nazi flag on its roof rather than a Confederate flag; and play the first 12 notes of the Horst Wessel song rather than Dixie - although I'm not sure that it would be easy to recast Nazism as good ol' American 'rebellion against authority'.
(Score: 2) by helel on Monday May 22, @01:19PM (2 children)
That is literally my "option 1" - They are ignorant of its history.
As for comparisons to the swastika, as you point out the swastika had many meanings before before it became a hate symbol and still has non-hate uses in the world today. The pro slavery flag, not so much.
Honestly your whole post feels a little too much like someone saying "I should be allowed to do blackface because minstrel shows were fun light hearted comedy when I was a kid."
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Monday May 22, @06:24PM (1 child)
Banning symbols lets the people using that symbol know that they are getting to you.
The appropriate response is to ignore the use.
The next best response is to point and laugh.
Getting huffily offended is the absolute worst thing you can do.
You can control your own response. Ultimately, you can't control other people. The whole point about using the symbols is to get a reaction.
As for minstrel shows, I have always thought they were boringly dire, and if everyone had my level of interest, they would have been consigned to the dustbin of history decades ago. Lack of interest is a fine way for controversial things to die out.
(Score: 2) by helel on Tuesday May 23, @12:23AM
Well, I don't disagree with you there. I certainly don't go harassing people for their flags even if I silently judge them.
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]