Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors

First time accepted submitter say_hwat writes "Today Reddit announced that it has banned subreddits dedicated to posting sexualized imagery of people under the age of 18. Last year, the site came under fire for r/jailbait, a subreddit dedicated to posting images of people under 18. The subreddit was shut down, but many others, such as r/gaolbait and r/bustybait, continued existing or sprung up afterwards. The policy change today came hours after a thread on Something Awful called for a public campaign against Reddit's lax attitude towards the sexualization of children. The Something Awful thread creator claims that Reddit's administrators know about child pornography being traded, but refuse to act. Among others, the thread creator cites r/preteen_girls as being particularly egregious."

Comments

Re:Lax attitudes toward child pornography

[fnj]

I guess you don't have a very impressive set of "tech persons" you talk to, in terms of intellect. They must be a pretty ignorant bunch if they are not pretty well informed on Stallman and his views. And if every last one of them who is not ignorant considers Stallman as nothing more than a nutjob, god save me from that set of ignoramuses.

Re:Lax attitudes toward child pornography

[Surt]

No, they literally can't consent. Consent requires a level of understanding their brains are literally physiologically incapable of, typically until they are ~15. The brain development just hasn't happened. This is the same reason minors are generally treated differently when they commit crimes as well as being the victim of them.

Re:Some Context from a Redditor

[Beelzebud]

Keep fighting the good fight. Child porn for everyone!