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One last important announcement regarding reddit and spez
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The problem with jailbait wasn't that it was illegal, it was just not a good look for a business trying to court advertising money.
Hold up, the problem with jailbait is it was scantily clad little children in sexuality suggestive situations. That was the problem. Whether it was technically legal or not it's irrelevant, it was intended to sexualized children.
It's "not a good look" because it's abhorrent trash meant to skirt child porn laws. Was it illegal? No. Was it just advertisers who had a problem with it? Also no. Users thought it was abhorrent too. There were user campaigns to ban the sub all the same, who do you think kept notifying the media?
I think I know what they mean (to give them the benefit of the doubt). It was disgusting and immoral and should never have been allowed in the first place, and to make matters worse the admin's final motive behind the deletion was "it's making us look bad" and not "wtf get out of here with this garbage"
Forgive me for dragging up some OLD drama here but the comments on this announcement post have irritated me for over a decade now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/pmj7f/a_necessary_change_in_policy/
"You're opening Reddit up to outside influence!"
"MY FREE SPEECH THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984"
"Akcthually, both sides are correct!"
Literally a confessed pedophile arguing his "orientation" is perfectly "natural" and getting upvoted to the top of the page
People whining that SomethingAwful was going to be smug about "winning"
Fuck Reddit.
Maybe I misunderstood. What's jailbait? I thought it was underage material.
Or material that could plausibly be underage material. They used the gray zone to justify that the material was not illegal, just questionable. But the previous poster is right. The sub was never shut down for the material of the posts directly, but that it had horrible optics. Reddit never took the high road.
It was, but it avoided legal issues by:
Oh 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.
If he posted images of children, even if not pornographic, it is unlikely he held the copyright for them and, in some jurisdictions might still be considered exploitation. I hope a police investigator at least looks at it.
I don't think anyone has accused spez of posting there.
He didn't even knowingly moderate there. There are real reasons to shirt on spez without this kind of made up shit. It just gives pro reddit morons ammo.