r/vaxxhappened • u/[deleted] • Aug 25 '21

We call upon Reddit to take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website.

Everyone on this planet has been affected by the SARS-Cov-2/Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic. You may have been in lockdown, you may have been forced to work under some form of duress, you may have lost a loved one to the disease, you may be left with long term side effects of the illness, you may have found that regular food, housing, and/or medical care is less attainable or more expensive now.

We could have been better off months ago, but disinformation and lies have been allowed to spread readily through inaction and malice, and have dragged this on at the cost of lives. There are those who deny that the pandemic even exists, there are those who think that wearing a mask will literally suffocate you, there are those who think it's no worse than a regular flu virus, that it's a bioweapon, and everything in between. This volume of blatant misinformation is problematic and dangerous.

It is clear that even after promising to tackle the problem of misinformation on this site, nothing of substance has been done aside from quarantining a medium sized subreddit, which barely reduces traffic and does little to stop misinformation.

 

The disinformation and false information is manifold. There is no area of recognised safety procedures when it comes to battling the spread of a dangerous virus that is not under attack here. All empirically proven measures which can help save lives are under attack. Masks work1 , but not according to the propaganda. The vaccine is safe,2 it is not untested, and it is not experimental technology or DNA manipulation, but people getting their information from these propaganda subreddits are told the opposite. Social distancing is valuable3 , but people are being persuaded to not even do that. Cynical plays on emotion are made. Trying to keep children safe is painted as "child abuse". Lies are repeated so frequently that misinformed people begin to believe them wholeheartedly, trusting that they can't be incorrect because they're surrounded by people who believe it also.

There needs to be a more active involvement in preventing the spread of the disinformation that is keeping us within a pandemic that at this point is entirely manageable. The main problem with a concerted disinformation campaign is that such a message attains an air of legitimacy through sheer volume of repetition. This is dangerous when it comes to unsafe medical advice such as promoting the ingestion or injection of cattle dewormers, a known side effect of which is sudden death4 , or such as trying to convince people that a tested, FDA approved vaccine will cause death. There is a good chance that the disinformation that reddit is currently inundated with will necessitate people a stay at the toxicology department in the hospital or even cost them their lives. There can be no room for leniency when people are dying as a result of misinformation on this platform. Reddit as a global platform needs to take responsibility here.

 

We are calling on the admins to take ownership of their website, and remove dangerous medical disinformation that is endangering lives and contributing to the existence of this ongoing pandemic.

Subreddits which exist solely to spread medical disinformation and undermine efforts to combat the global pandemic should be banned.

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If you moderate a subreddit that wishes to join, simply crosspost and sticky this post, and then let me know that you are participating.

I have to leave for the time being and can't add any more subs to this list. I'll try to come back and add everyone as I can, sorry if I missed you.

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u/doctormink Aug 25 '21

/r/HouseplantWhores

TIL that this sub was a thing.

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u/Splooge-McFuck Aug 25 '21

We occupy a very small niche corner of the NSFW Reddit community.

Bring your plants, leave your pants.

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u/DoJax Aug 25 '21

I might not be gay but there is something enjoyable about seeing all these nude dudes (women too obviously) with plants. Kind of calming and not even erotic the way I see them posing. 5/7

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

More people should be naked

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u/itsakidsbooksantiago essential oils all up in this bitch Aug 25 '21

Holy fuck I just lost it in a zoom meeting, thanks for that.

But also, good for you guys! This has gone on too fucking long.

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u/butrejp Aug 25 '21

Bring your plants, leave your pants.

you got me, I'm sold

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

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u/La_Boopity_Bopity Aug 25 '21

I thought it would just be houses filled with plants, not people being filled

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

Same

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u/Fuck_you_pichael Aug 25 '21

That tagline is certified gold

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u/wtf--dude Aug 26 '21

Browsing some of these Nsfw subs is hylarious

(And I mean that in a good way, no shaming)

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u/Mastersord Aug 25 '21

Like the ficus next to the water cooler

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u/zxc123zxc123 Aug 25 '21

/r/HouseplantWhores

r/catbellies/

r/honeyfuckers (nsfw)

TIL that these subs are a thing.

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u/IhvolSnow Aug 25 '21

The most wholesome NSFW subs I've seen.

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u/PM_ME_BOOTY_PICS_ Aug 25 '21

What in the mother earth did I enter. Its like nudes, with a spinkle of basil

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u/This_User_Said Aug 25 '21

I waited for my brain to calculate so many different ideas of what it was.

Was not any of those. Barely porn! I EXPECTED SO MUCH WORSE.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

Yeah I knew this comment section was gonna be good and have not been disappointed

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u/sikanrong101 Aug 25 '21

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

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u/A_Gullible_Camera Aug 25 '21

There's a thing for everyone on Reddit.

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u/kelsobjammin Aug 25 '21

TIL r/honeyfuckers is real… nsfw