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One last important announcement regarding reddit and spez (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sirboozebum@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] 52fighters@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Maybe a police investigator should do a little snooping. Prison would be one acceptable outcome.

[-] Awwab@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Itty53@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] EthanolParty 1 points 1 year ago

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"