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What happened to “Illegal Life Pro Tips”?
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I’m looking for a subreddit that used to keep me hooked for hours; it was called something like “Illegal Life Pro Tips.” Does anyone know if it got banned or changed its name? I can’t find it anymore.
Top Comment: Try unethical not illegal
What illegal thing do you do on a regular basis?
Main Post: What illegal thing do you do on a regular basis?
Top Comment: When I was younger me and my sister were driving down the road when we saw a roadkill raccoon. We decided to pull over to see if it was still alive. It wasn’t, but it had a baby raccoon trying to cuddle up to it. We felt bad and took him in, he lived with us for about 14 years until he died. Apparently it’s illegal to own a raccoon without a license, but raccoons only live for around 3 years in the wild so I like to think we gave him a pretty good life for an orphan raccoon, regardless of it being illegal. We live in a small town and regularly took him on walks to the park and stuff, he loved people and sat on my shoulder while I was on a 4th of July parade float. RIP Bandit. UPDATE: for anyone curious I posted videos of him on my profile
CMV: The easiest and best way to minimize *illegal* immigration is to make *legal* immigration fast and easy
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What part of legal immigration don't you understand?
This view is based upon immigration laws in the United States. The view might apply elsewhere, but I'm not familiar with other country's immigration laws, so it is limited to the U.S. for purposes of this CMV.
There are really only 2 main reason to immigrate to the U.S. illegally rather than legally:
- You are a bad person and, because of that, you would be rejected if you tried to immigrate legally
- There either is no legal process available to you, or the legal process is too confusing, cumbersome, costly or timely to be effective.
Immigration laws should mainly focus on keeping out group 1 people, but the vast, vast, vast majority of illegal immigrants to the United States are group 2 people. This essentially allows the bad group 1 people to "hide in plain sight" amongst the group 2 people. The "bad people" can simply blend in and pretend they're just looking for a better life for themselves and their families because so many people are immigrating illegally, that the bad people aren't identifiable.
But what if you made legal immigration fast and easy? Fill out a few forms. Go through an identity verification. Pass a background check to ensure you're not a group 1 person. Then, in 2 weeks, you're able to legally immigrate to the United States.
Where is the incentive to immigrate illegally in that situation? Sure, you might have a few people who can't wait the 2 weeks for some emergency reason (family member dying, medical emergency, etc.). But with rare exception, anyone who would pass the background check would have no incentive to immigrate any way other than the legal way.
And that makes border patrol much, much easier. Now when you see someone trying to sneak across the border (or overstay a tourist visa), it's a pretty safe assumption that they're a group 1 person who wouldn't pass a background check. Because no one else would take the more difficult illegal route, when the legal route is so fast and easy. So there'd be very few people trying to get in illegally, so those who did try to do so illegally would stick out like a sore thumb and be more easily apprehended.
Edit #1: Responses about the values and costs of immigration overall are not really relevant to my view. My view is just about how to minimize illegal immigration. It isn't a commentary about the pros and cons of immigrants.
Top Comment: This is neither the easiest nor best way to minimize illegal immigration, as your proposal requires a huge increase in our current immigration infrastructure to work. There are years worth of backlog for immigration applications and asylum claims. Even if you made those applications easier, we would need significantly more administrative judges and similar positions to make this truly fast and easy. This problem has persisted through multiple presidential administrations. Given the lack of political willpower for what should be an easy and best way to solve the issue., this proposal seems politically infeasible.
Is it illegal to view a youtube video or reddit post which violates copyright?
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For instance, if a YouTube video or Reddit post contains elements that infringe copyright without fair use (illegal music over licit video, for instance), do we the viewers violate copyright and break the law?
Edit: Mostly talking about the US.
Top Comment: The point of copyright laws is to protect the original artist/creator from losing money that would otherwise be paid to them. As far as I'm aware, when people get sued by a production company, it's because they downloaded it from the Internet. When they download it, it is likely a torrent which would then seed it for others to download. Seeding is when your own device's resources/power is used to share it with others. This would then fall under distribution of copyrighted content which would be better grounds for a lawsuit. In your hypothetical scenario, you would not be distributing it. The uploader and YouTube would be the distributors. They would have very little reason/grounds to sue you. They would also have to show what damages they had directly from you watching it. This would be an extremely small amount in the eyes of the court and any judge would not want to pursue it without a significant amount of damages.
Stance on Illegal immigration
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What’s inherently wrong with the U.S not wanting undocumented illegal immigration? A good part of the planet (many countries) has a no tolerance on undocumented individuals coming inside its borders. Yet America’s actions are the only ones criticized on a national scale when they crack down on it.
This is a genuine question as I’m not educated on immigration policy and politics. Just wondering why a large portion of the citizens in America are not for deportation of Illegal immigrants.
Top Comment: what’s inherently wrong with the U.S not wanting undocumented illegal immigration There’s nothing wrong per se about it, but opinions differ wildly. Even in Congress, there’s Congresspeople who want everything from a total and permanent cessation of all immigration and complete open borders without limits. Opinions also differ very widely when you ask people specifics. Americans are generally in favour of deporting illegal immigrants but are very divided on how to go about doing that. It’s easy to want to deport say, a criminal cartel member illegal immigrant, less easy of a decision with an otherwise law abiding person who came here at 6 months old. What do you do with families that are mixed legality? The myriad complications on how and when to enforce what laws and in what ways make this an incredibly difficult decision. America’s actions are the only ones Nope. Italy, Turkey, Poland, UK, France, Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, and many others have been widely criticized for the way they have handled illegal (and legal) immigration, one way or another. Even the UN has been criticizing these countries. Pushbacks have been a hotly debated topic.
Reddit should genuinely be illegal.
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People on reddit compared to any social media ive delved in are literally that guy that "slappable jerk" mocks. If you have something wrong with equipment, and your asking on subreddits even small ones, you will get shit on beyond reason sometimes and downvoted because redditors think karma is your white blood cells They need to suck down because they're miserable people. There's no possible way you can convince me otherwise, the amount of subreddits that are generally friendly are insanely low even in today's society standards. Reddit should genuinely be illegal and it's unfathomable how toxic it is.
I saw a post one time about a guy getting abused by his gf over an argument, and more than half the entire replies were people focusing on the argument or opinion that was made over her literally beating him. This is antisocial insane behavior.
Top Comment: It would be better if karma simply didn't exist.
I reported unquestionably illegal content to Reddit and they said it didn't break the rules. I already reported it to the FTC. What's next?
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TL;DR obviously illegal content doesn't get removed. Already reported to Law Enforcement. Any way to have Reddit address it?
- I have verifiable proof that a company is conducting illegal astroturfing efforts on Reddit by posting their new online platform claiming that they merely "found it" and recommending it for potential clients.
- I only heard about it because the founder actually messaged me trying to get me to buy in, and I found their Reddit posts doing some research.
- I asked the founder who even confirmed they are performing the astroturfing campaign and when I told them how illegal it was, they simply claimed they "had no idea."
- They even have some Reddit posts where they admit to building the platform, mixed in with those were they claimed to have just been a user and recommending it to others. Directly on Reddit!
Regardless of potential damage (or none), it's a slam dunk case for having that content removed. The FTC guidelines are very clear on this type of content and it being against regulations. It's rare you see it so brazenly ignored.
As I mentioned to the title, I already reported this to law enforcement and await processing there. But it's disappointing to see Reddit ignore this clearly illegal practice and condone it on their platforms. Has anyone seen similar mistakes from administration lately? Even if you can remove these posts on your own subreddits, did you take any further action? If so, what did you do?
Top Comment: Your only option is to send a link to the original content and a permalink to the original response saying break the rules in a modmail here ( r/ModSupport ) to get admins to take a second look. There are no other methods or possible actions.
Why might Reddit allow people to condone illegal activity when they could ban it like they did for condoning spanking?
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My guess is Reddit feels they can safely contain this content using the "soft quarantine" so they are not under much pressure to close these places like they are for hate or harassment which made the news. Pressure from shareholders mainly and Reddit's commitment to free speech are likely involved.
So Reddit allows a lot of activity condoning illegal activity to take place. There is no rule against it unless you are like soliciting illegal materials like drugs. I have found communities devoted to the illegal manufacture of drugs. While some of these drugs may be legal to make in some places most of them appear on the UN list or are just widely known as proscribed.
In a firearms subreddit I found someone lowkey condoning someone making an illegal firearm part because they claim the FBI will never know if you really have so long as you keep quiet at least that was part of what they were saying.
Now of course, some things, even very controversial or harmful things by some people's consideration, are perfectly legal in different jurisdictions. And of course, Reddit has at times taken action against legal activity like what they did when [they expanded and clarified Rule 4] (https://old.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/14sk5ye/content_policy_updates_clarifying_rule_3/) and also claimed they would be willing to go beyond the law. But things like "a recipe for ketamine" are one of those things which approach the status of shoplifting. While it might not be bad in and of itself, it's widely known most sovereign nations prohibit that except under very narrow circumstances.
Top Comment: Making a claim of "reddit banned people condoning spanking" without citing a source puts your entire post on a shaky premise. Please provide a source.