Is Reddit (web site with a big corporate parent behind it) spreading child porn?

[Farmer_Jane]

@Whack-a-Mole

For my part I’d say it is in bad taste to have a page dedicated to** ogling teenage women** but that said I cannot see it as child porn.

They aren’t women. They are girls.

I checked out the jailbait section and found myself staring at a girl with her breasts pressed to a mirror and her thong-clad ass in my face.

Uh. Not acceptable. This is DEFINITELY borderline porn and some of them are pornographic (if those really are underage girls).

[Farmer_Jane]

Ew. I feel guilty just for checking to see what the hubub was about. </vomit>

[amanset]

@Walmarticus

I’m pretty confident that sites like /b/ - Random - 4chan, motherless.com and /r/jailbait aren’t so popular from providing purely platonic pictures of pubescent people. Let’s not kid ourselves. Pedophiles are scanning these sites for occasional nipslips and borderline stripteases to masturbate to.

I don’t appreciate the attitude of some Redditers that Anderson Cooper is in Maude Flanders mode. The entire idea of jailbait is to push it as close to the line as you possibly can, with many a wink wink and nudge nudge, without taking that last final step. I don’t consider this an overreaction on his part. It is skeevy and gross.

Is it actually illegal? I have no doubt such sites have distributed child porn before but generally, no. I’m also confident that such sites could do much more to prevent the distribution than, say, Google.

I had heard of the other two but motherless.com was something I had never heard of. So, like an idiot, I entered it into my browser. I guess I expected it to be something like reddit or 4chan, but with a dodgy section.

It wasn’t. Instead I got a Swedish Police warning in my browser about how access to the site was blocked as it had been used to distribute child porn.

Which is just awesome. Be warned, people.

[kushiel]

As for the Conde Nast issue - I don’t think they cared about the content at all, they want to leverage those eyeballs for revenue. Earlier in September, Reddit split off from Conde Nast anyway - they are now their own company under the company that owns Conde Nast.

[Kobal2]

@Death_of_Rats

One creepy element of this is that not all of these girls are there of thier own accord. There is a significant number of pictures that have been trolled from Facebook pages and the like and posted without the girl’s knowledge. That was one thing AC mentioned in his report and I have seen that in other reports about this site and others like it.

If the girls put risqué shots on Facebook, then they might as well be uploading them to Google directly. Hell, even if they uploaded them on their personnal blog that has all of 3 visitors per year, it’s fair game. If you don’t want smelly people wanking to pics of yourself in a tiny bra, here’s a hint : don’t put such photo on the goddamn Internet. Facebook is about as private as main street around noon.

Now, if some of these pics were obtained because the girls sent the pic to their boyfriend/girlfriend privately and with an assumption of intimacy, and the latter turned out to be assholes who re-posted them for all to see, that’s different.