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user-inactivated · 3734 days ago · link · · parent · post: Reddit users flip out over admin decisions to uphold DMCA takedown requests on celebrity nude leaks
Because automating deleting them in a robust way is a hard problem (roughly the same as the one image search engines have to solve, and maybe legally problematic in the case of photos of minors, though I doubt they'd be prosecuted for storing them for the purpose of keeping people from reposting them), and doing it by hand isn't feasible with their small staff if enough people insist on reposting them? Cribbing from John Gilmore is disingenuous because Reddit is a single site owned by a single company, but I can definitely see why they want to be as hands-off as they can.