Re: some Reddit SUBs have quirky rules and moderators.

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 14:40:10 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> Was there /any/ media attention? I don't remember hearing about it until
> I joined.

There were (American) concerns about newsgroups where pedophiles
(supposedly) were sharing their stuff. I don't remember what the
newsgroups were called, but there were indeed at least 2 of those
newsgroups.

Providers quickly took the chance of getting rid of their access to
Usenet completely and in doing so they got rid of a lot of (illegal)
download traffic that was going on in other newsgroups.

They could have blocked access to those specific newsgroups, but it was
never really about that.

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