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Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

NOTICE: Mature subject. All links are safe, but may contain explicit content.

Reddit.com is a social website that allows its user to share and discuss content such as videos, photos, articles, websites, and so on.

Reddit is massively popular (http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html), especially with young people (http://en.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/ne … ey_in_pie/).

Reddit is split into subcommunities known as ?subreddits,? meaning that while reddit exists as a website, it consists of the sum of its subcommunities. People can subscribe to each community and participate by sharing and commenting.

Unfortunately, the reddit community as a whole also harbors and caters to pedophiles, distributors of child inappropriate content, rapists, peeping Toms, and sex offenders.

Last fall, Anderson Cooper aired a report exposing the child inappropriate content hosted on the site, ultimately leading to the largest subreddit devoted to it being shut down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMdQRRLoYg http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbait

Dozens of subreddits took its place.

Reddit users, as well as people in the media, have criticized Reddit?s permissive attitude towards child exploitation. Unfortunately, while admins didn?t ban sexualized images of children on paper until last February (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/po … ntent.html), the rule remains unenforced, indicating that they are more interested in shielding themselves from bad press than protecting innocent kids.

A list of ?jailbait? (child inappropriate content) forums that are currently on reddit:

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Some of these forums are hidden and invite only which makes it impossible to know how many actually exist.

The owners of reddit know there is active trading of child inappropriate content on their forums and refuse to do anything about it. Any reports are deleted and ignored. Further, Reddit?s cofounder simply dismisses the issue and blames the exploited children whose pictures are being traded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZYvrue1BE

Included in the Anderson Cooper report was the statement by Reddit General Manager Erik Martin which defends the child inappropriate content remaining on the site: ?We?re a free speech site and the cost of that is there?s offensive stuff on there ? Once we start taking down some things we find offensive, then we?re no longer a free speech site and no longer a platform for everyone. We?re exerting editorial control and that?s not what we are.? http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/po … ntent.html

The former leader of the child inappropriate content rings, Violentacrez, is often in direct contact with the owners of the site. Erik Martin (aka hueypriest) went so far as to warn Violentacrez before reluctantly making the announcement last February. http://pastebin.com/eWhyDXCH

(4:03:13 PM) hueypriest: want to give you a heads up

(4:04:00 PM) hueypriest: we?re making a policy change regarding jailbait type content. Don?t really have a choice.

Reddit also has subreddits which publish images of women?s and underage girls? private areas, including ?upskirt? and ?downblouse? pictures, without the knowledge or consent of their subjects. The users of these subreddits trade tips on how to stalk and photograph women and minors and encourage each other to go out and take more such pictures.

A list of these forums currently on Reddit include:

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A majority of these images are of girls in high school classroom settings.

Creepshots? FAQ states:

?Creepshots are CANDID. If a person is posing for and/or aware that a picture is being taken, then it ceases to be candid and thus is no longer a creepshot. A creepshot captures the natural, raw sexiness of the subject without their vain attempts at putting on a show for the camera. That is the essence of the creepshot, that is what makes a true creepshot worth the effort and that is why this sub-reddit exists.?

One user, called SFJohnny, secretly video tapes himself raping and beating hundreds of women and girls, and shares them on reddit. http://i.imgur.com/1Hkpt.png

Not only is this all of this disgusting, it?s illegal as per the Video Voyeurism Act of 2004.

Whoever, in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, has the intent to capture an image of a private area of an individual without their consent, and knowingly does so under circumstances in which the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Other forums are explicitly devoted to filming sexual assaults and sharing them on reddit as inappropriate content for other users. These include:

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Sick to your stomach yet? Here?s more awful Reddit things:

     A pedophile?s confession http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m … _and_lost/
     Thousands of rapists being supported by the community http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … ons-reddit
       A subreddit called ?<snip>? devoted to teaching men how to rape women
       A subreddit called ?<snip>? devoted to child molestation
     A subreddit called ?<snip>?

Past media coverage:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMdQRRLoYg

     http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/techn … ost-120043

     http://www.dailytech.com/Reddit+rJailba … 22992c.htm

     http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/229048/ … ive-ph.htm

     http://gawker.com/5848653/reddits-child … nt-scandal

Last edited by Supadorf24 (Sep 19 2012 8:04:35 pm)

Raiden

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

Sorry about deleted post, thought this was a spambot, until I realized it was in english.

Well, I don't really understand it, but rapists/pedophiles are horrible. Why they do it is a mystery to everyone. c_c

treejoe4

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

I have always hated Reddit, just a site for hipsters and stupid people. And now this! What the hell is wrong with people.

Fdoou

Banned

Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

At first I thought this was a spambot post because of the title and the random links.

Reddit is just some site I avoid and don't care about.

ThuggishPrune

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

I love how people always see the extremely bad side of things. Do you think most of the people on the site actually like that crap. It's extremely disturbing and illegal. Most people on the actual site hate it.

Say that 10% are creepy and 90% find the stuff disgusting. You instantly assume that because that 10% are disgusting, that makes the entire site like that?

Yes the admins should have taken care of it. that doesn't mean the entire community is like that.

EDIT: It's like saying Master1 is a creepy 35 year old guy who likes this stuff. And people label ee forums like that.

Now watch people ignore this and continue saying it's bad, and avoid a great site.

Last edited by ThuggishPrune (Sep 19 2012 5:44:42 pm)

Arceus64

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

Thought this was spam, almost didn't read it, made a comment.

hisss

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

This reminds me of the site that was telling people that minecraft was anti christian.

ThuggishPrune

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

I have always hated Reddit, just a site for hipsters and stupid people. And now this! What the hell is wrong with people.

you hate everything. so nothing new.

Shift

Guest

Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

Wait wait wait, you guys actually thought that a site in which anyone can post numerous types of media with minimal repercussions wouldn't eventually house some... inappropriate content?

supadorf24

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Joined: 2015-02-26

Posts: 2,675

Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

While this is mainly a kids' forum and this certainly not a kids' topic, I'm leaving this up since it has discussion potential. However, I did snip the names of subreddits, since how I see it is that subreddit names aren't much better than a direct link.

I might respond to this topic later if I feel like it.

Chatteno

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Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

honestly, Joe,

you hate everything. so nothing new.

treejoe4

Guest

Re: Major social network harbors child inappropriate content and voyeuristic content

And? Reddit DOES suck, it's full of childish memes and stupidity.