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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean of course they do. Reddit's job is literally to redistribute those photos and it is well known that they will be used to generate profit.

Maybe there is a little grey around around "selling" but if they have the right to redistribute them I don't see why they wouldn't be able to redistribute them directly for money as opposed to just redistributing them with some ads on the page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The reason Reddit shouldn't be selling other people's pornos is that the users didn't knowingly consent to being a sex worker. The distinction between free sex (in which I include open distribution of nudes) and sex work (in which I include paid distribution of nudes) is emotionally important. And it's especially important when someone is being pimped without their knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. "Knowingly" is the hard part here. Reddit will of course say that you agreed to their terms of service and that the terms are reasonable because otherwise they couldn't operate their service. However it is definitely true that many users didn't realize that they were giving Reddit permission to sell their content (even if it is the logical conclusion).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Actually it's not the logical conclusion. Reddit's terms of service violate the GDPR and many other laws. A client can't sign a contract by logging in to a website, that's not how contract law works. Legally, these terms of service are utter nonsense. The only reason these companies get away with it is nobody's sued them yet.