After an incident where anti-loli false flaggots got an account wrongfully banned for cp, ottman decided to ban loli by making false arguments similar to what 8chan owner jim watkins and gab owner andrew torba made.
Minds userbase is having none of it, and are actively calling ottman out for lying while demanding this decision be reversed.
new edit: ottman is having a meltdown, calling people bots and deleting posts.
edit: the mods need to consider banning the anti-loli spergs on this site for pointless infighting.
These bans don't seem to have done anything good for 8chan or Gab. Meanwhile Twitter gets to let such content fly so long as it's under the radar.
Alternative social media is in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" corner on this issue. I would like to see just one of them try Twitter's approach.
Honestly, I think it does help, but not for the way you think it does.
Yes, every provider will still go after them. Every tech company, every financial company, every company. But it seems to be a struggle to arrest every single person involved in running the site and putting them in prison for 35 years for being part of a 'child porn ring', along with putting a significant number of users in prison as well.
These places know that the establishment is prepared to use unlimited force, but is not willing to commit those resources if they aren't ensured a win. So for now, they need to pick their battles intelligently. Porn is just going to create massive legal headaches, and create an avenue of approach that will be exploited until everyone involved in running those sites is dead and most of their users arrested.
All that is required to kick it off is a communist agitator dropping files from his own stash.
Meanwhile, Twitter and Facebook will never have that concern.
Twitter has refused to remove sextorition, and Facebook has live-streamed murders & terrorism. Not a peep from the establishment.
I bet this thread was a fun one for you to sift through.
I'm still going through it, but the reports are few.
Please don't tell users to kill themselves, though.