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RedditCensorshipTracker

A Reddit Censorship Tracker to track subdomains blocked in Turkey (and potentially other countries, however, seeing the Transparency Reports, only Germany has opted to block a sub, which is /r/watchpeopledie (which involves people actually dying. NSFW and NSFL. You have been warned.)).

How to set up

  • Install python3. I have only used it on python3.6, but earlier versions should work too.
  • Clone or download the project (duh).
  • If you want to update the scrapes (you should!), run python3 redditsubscraper.py (it goes on forever! don't forget to stop it by hand) and python3 nsfwscraper.py.
  • If you're on linux (you should be if you care about privacy a bit), it'll also notify you on blocked subreddits using libnotify's notify-send. It should be installed on most Distros or should come with most WMs, but try installing libnotify anyways.
  • If you want to test non-nsfw subs: just run python3 rct.py
  • If you want to test nsfw subs: change "sublist" on line 9 to "nsfwsublist" and run python3 rct.py.
  • If you just want to see if it is running fine, comment out line 18 and uncomment line 17, and run python3 rct.py.

Blocked subs

There are 6 blocked subreddits according to The 2016 Reddit Transparency Report:

Turkey – We received 6 requests for the removal of one post and 6 subreddits which contained material that fell under the scope of “obscenity” in the Turkish Criminal Code which, in turn, constitutes grounds for a website to be blocked under the Turkish Internet Law. The post and subreddits were blocked from Turkish IPs.

Non-NSFW scan is still going on, but we suspect that the other 3 is in this list.

From NSFW Sublist scan, the following subs seem to be blocked:

  • /r/twinks
  • /r/gayporn
  • /r/gaypornhunters

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