Reddit — Policy Change
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Reddit banned r/TheFappening, a subreddit that had amassed over 100,000 subscribers in a single day after nearly 500 private celebrity photos were leaked online. Reddit initially declined to remove the content citing its free-speech policy and US law, but eventually banned the subreddit on copyright grounds (DMCA). The incident exposed the inadequacy of Reddit's content policies for handling non-consensual intimate imagery at scale.
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