Re: some Reddit SUBs have quirky rules and moderators.

On 4/9/2024 9:59 PM, s|b wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yeah, I remember some news coverage in Germany that included the usenet 
and how terrible it was that you could get pornography in there. I think 
it really drove the whole narrative of the internet being the seedy side 
of culture, especially coming from newspapers and tv stations.