This thread is about Reddit actively trading irrefutable child porn.

[Ascendancy]

How can jailbait be legal? Surely by definition its illegal hence the jail part of bait?

The jail part refers to what would happen if you doinked them. Not viewed pictures of them fully clothed

 

[Cosimo]

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/pmj7f/a_necessary_change_in_policy/

Good to see postive action.

 

[Cosimo]

It's a circle jerk of targeted abuse between SA, Digg and Reddit. Move along, nothing to see here.

You have evidence of this?

 

[SKYNHEDD]

The jail part refers to what would happen if you doinked them. Not viewed pictures of them fully clothed

Ok how can anyone get angry at pictures of teenagers with clothes on?

Surely thats 99% of Facebook?

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

You were just being a whiny manchild

A whiny manchild about child pornography? You're adorable.

No it's not illegal. Urban dictionary will tell you why. Just let this thread die before anyone else sees it.

Why should it die? You were a huge Reddit apologist in the other comment I made about it last week or so. I don't understand your reticence for these things to be discussed.

Ahh in that case then its just a rant by the op about nothing then?

No worries.

No, no rant here, at least that wasn't the intention. Just flagging up a thing which is happening - and this is changing by the day as Ascendancy pointed out earlier, and as Reddit chop and change their mind - which might be of interest to those who don't post on some of the forums where this is being discussed. No rants from me

 

[Fourstar]

How can jailbait be legal? Surely by definition its illegal hence the jail part of bait?

So I suppose you are in favour of all girls past the age of puberty wearing a Burqa in any situation they could be seen by a man?

You see "jailbait" every day of the week while walking down the street. Of course you have the self control to not jump on top of every mature looking girl you see hence the avoidance of jail.

 

[TJM]

sounds like they are acting on it then?

They have now, but the existence of these sections has been known for a long time and Reddit maintained a 'We don't censor posts' stance, which is ridiculous when people are trading indecent images of children.

 

[Ascendancy]

Ok how can anyone get angry at pictures of teenagers with clothes on?

Surely thats 99% of Facebook?

I think it was more the fact that people were allegedly trading actual CP over the PM system.

 

[RomanNose]

Why should it die? You were a huge Reddit apologist in the other comment I made about it last week or so. I don't understand your reticence for these things to be discussed.

Because you just fell for hook line and sinker. It's fairly obvious that the media companies hate reddit, they always have because reddit has exposed just how bent they are. It doesn't take a genius to work out that these companies actively try to smear reddit as much as they can. Did you see how they reported on the occupy footage? Panorama was covering poverty in America last night that featured the occupy protesters in a much different light that you would never see on American TV.

 

[Marky]

I'm happy to say when I've made a mistake and my tl;dr was driven more by emotion than considered thought. I don't like Reddit - and not for the reasons mrk alluded to (which are nonsense, incidentally) - and I hate their stance on this issue but to label the whole site as terrible unless you like child porn was moronic of me. I take it back but won't delete the OP tl;dr just so that the flow is clear.

tl;dr - I got my tl;dr wrong by a wide margin.

+1 Respect for being honest

 

[TommyV]

Not good.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Because you just fell for hook line and sinker. It's fairly obvious that the media companies hate reddit, they always have because reddit has exposed just how bent they are.

Media companies? This came from guys like you and me (well, maybe not you) who use the internet and thought "Uh, this doesn't seem quite right." and posted their thoughts about it. It quickly gained traction and then, and only then, did the 'media companies' do a thing on it.

Why are you apologising for Reddit? This isn't an attack, I really don't get it.

+1 Respect for being honest

If I'm going to call you a **** I should at least be able to do the same about myself

 

[SuperBOB]

I think censorship is a necessary evil... but we should argue about over every line and every photo - fight tooth and nail to ensure that it never oversteps the mark.

"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Reddit's team are pretty impressive for making an issue out of this. Particularly given their commercial overlords.

 

[RomanNose]

Media companies? This came from guys like you and me (well, maybe not you) who use the internet and thought "Uh, this doesn't seem quite right." and posted their thoughts about it. It quickly gained traction and then, and only then, did the 'media companies' do a thing on it.

Why are you apologising for Reddit? This isn't an attack, I really don't get it.

This is what actually happened.
1) Forum that hates reddit started a campaign against it
2) Reddit immediately changed the rules
3) The news companies then started reporting on it even though they changed the rules.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

e: in response to SuperBOB : Reddit's team aren't making an issue out of this, at least not without being heavily pushed.

This is what actually happened.
1) Forum that hates reddit started a campaign against it
2) Reddit immediately changed the rules
3) The news companies then started reporting on it even though they changed the rules.

1. The only reason as far as I know that SA even got involved was because of activity already happening on Reddit. This isn't anything to do with your perceived view of your ~ GLORIOUS FORUM ~ being attacked for no reason, it's because people started realising they were posting child porn. CHILD PORN.

2. Reddit only changed their rules after long, drawn out and (unfortunately for them, very publicaly available) conversations with some of the main perpetrators of the child porn due to the backlash of very negative press.

3. Some news companies posted it.

 

[Ascendancy]

This is what actually happened.
1) Forum that hates reddit started a campaign against it
2) Reddit immediately changed the rules
3) The news companies then started reporting on it even though they changed the rules.

Nope.

What actually happened was

1) Forum that hates reddit started a campaign against it
2) The news companies reported on it
3) Reddit banned ONE subreddit (/r/jailbait)

Then a month or two later

4) Reddit bans anything to do with underage sexualisation.

 

[branddaly]

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[TommyV]

strong irony here, quoting this from magnolias changing sig;

'I LOVE ANIME SO MUCH IT LITERALLY HURTS TO WATCH IT. ASK ME ABOUT MY FASCINATION WITH SEXUALISING CHILDREN! IT'S ARTISTIC!'

 

[hurfdurf]

SA is easily the best forum on the Internet and these kind of campaigns they get on demonstrate this. Reddit is currently a very powerful social media website and SA obliterated it and it's owners in less than 24 hours.

 

[andrewdodd13]

Why is this thread only being made today? This is like 2-3 days old, and reddit already took care of it?