bobalotOne last important announcement regarding reddit and spez
52fightersMaybe a police investigator should do a little snooping. Prison would be one acceptable outcome.
AwwabThe problem with jailbait wasn't that it was illegal, it was just not a good look for a business trying to court advertising money.
Maybe I misunderstood. What's jailbait? I thought it was underage material.
ZakIt was, but it avoided legal issues by:
- Reddit didn't actually host images or videos at the time, just links and comments
- As I recall, it wasn't pornography, just pictures of kids in bikinis with creepy comments
DenatonOh god, i didn't know what jailbait was and just tried to look it up on Reddit but couldn't find anything, i thought it was some kind of "bad prank" stuff to bait others into doing illegal stuff..
Reddit previously allowed essentially anything that was not either illegal to post or breaking the site by organizing vote manipulation and the like. After getting negative press for subreddits that allowed sexualized (but probably not technically pornographic) images of kids, they banned that kind of content.
Reddit positioned itself as a neutral platform with as few sitewide rules as it could have prior to that, and many didn't like what the change signaled even if they found /r/jailbait disgusting.
